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Rock Art: What are Pictographs, Petroglyphs, and Geoglyphs?

by ancientartarch|November 19, 2024March 2, 2025|age, California, cave art, Chauvet, Emery County, France, geoglyph, Native American, North America, Painting, Paleolithic, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Uncategorized, Utah

Rock Art: Pictographs, Petroglyphs, and Geoglyphs. Three techniques are used by the world's first artists. What do those terms mean and what does the art look like?

Old River Bed Delta Footprints, Utah

by Stephen Alvarez|October 31, 2024November 1, 2024|age, North America, Paleolithic, Utah

12,000 years ago someone walked through a stream in Utah. What do the footprints they left behind tell us?

Rochester Creek Petroglyph Site Video

by Stephen Alvarez|April 11, 2024April 11, 2024|Archaic, Emery County, Fremont, Modern, Mural of America, Native American, North America, petroglyph, Rock Art, Utah

The Rochester Creek Rock Art Site is an extraordinary Fremont site in Emery County, Utah. With a story telling team of Native American descendants, land managers and archaeologists we have put together this 3 minute film that imagines the site from the point of view of Ute spiritual leader Larry Cesspooch.

Patagonia Cave Art: A Pictograph Seen Across 3000 Years

by Stephen Alvarez|February 16, 2024February 17, 2024|age, cave art, Painting, pictograph, Rock Art

A new paper in Science Advances suggests that a single pictograph motif persists across 130 human generations at a site in Argentina

Growing evidence of Neanderthal “Art”

by Stephen Alvarez|June 23, 2023June 23, 2023|age, cave art, Europe, France, petroglyph

Claims that other species besides Homo Sapiens made art or used "symbolic behavior" have been met with skepticism. But evidence that Neanderthals did produce symbols keeps growing. In a paper published this week in the Journal PLOS One,

Education Activity in Ada, OK

by ancientartarch|April 3, 2023May 24, 2023|Mississippian, news

It’s a wonderful opportunity to share this collective history with kids who are descendants of the Mississippian tribes,” Mater said. “But to non-native kids as well. This is part of American history. Hopefully this kind of sparks their imaginations. It gets people kind of asking larger questions, and appreciating the cultural history and legacy that we come from

Chauvet Pont d’Arc the discovery of 36,000-year-old art

Upper Paleolithic Proto Writing

by ancientartarch|January 5, 2023January 5, 2023|Aurignacian, cave art, Chauvet, Europe, France, Painting, Uncategorized

We know that ancient artists were exacting observers of the natural world. But it is mind bending that they may have had a written time keeping system 20,000 years ago.