Rock Art

Indigenous Cave Explorers of the Southeastern US

by Gregory Crouch|April 3, 2022April 15, 2022|cave art, Mississippian, Mural of America, Native American, North America, petroglyph, Rock Art, Uncategorized, unnamed cave, Woodland

Indisputable evidence proves Indigenous Americans ventured as far as 3 miles into southeastern caves 5,000 years before the invention of electric light. Native Americans were excellent cave explorers.

Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian. The Precontact Native American Cultures of Southeastern United States

by Gregory Crouch|March 23, 2022April 5, 2022|age, Alabama, Archaic, cave art, geoglyph, Mississippian, Modern, Native American, North America, Painting, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Tennessee, Woodland

Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian the pre contact Native American Cultures of the Southeastern US.

Are the Serranía de la Lindosa paintings 12,000 years old?

by ancientartarch|March 8, 2022June 25, 2023|age, news, Painting, Paleolithic, pictograph, Rock Art

Are the Serrania de la Lindosa Colombia paintings 12,000 years old? They could be but why are they so well preserved?

Blythe Intaglios, Geoglyphs of the Lower Colorado River

by Stephen Alvarez|February 16, 2022April 5, 2022|Arizona, California, geoglyph, Native American, North America, Rock Art

The Blythe Intaglios are so large they can be seen from space. However, they were only noticed by non Native Americans in the 1930.

Panel of the Four Horses, Chauvet in VR

by Stephen Alvarez|February 11, 2022April 19, 2022|age, Aurignacian, cave art, Chauvet, Europe, France, Paleolithic, pictograph, Rock Art, Virtual Reality

The panel of the Four Horses in Chauvet Pont d'Arc cave is now online in VR

Devilstep Hollow Cave

by ancientartarch|February 9, 2022April 17, 2022|cave art, Mississippian, Mural of America, Native American, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Tennessee, Virtual Reality

People we refer to as Mississippian used Devilstep Hollow cave as a ceremonial space. Explore the artwork and symbols sealed inside

Rock Art in Texas Defaced

by Stephen Alvarez|January 17, 2022February 9, 2022|news, petroglyph, Rock Art

Late last year vandals irreparably damaged a rock art petroglyph panel in Big Bend National Park. 2021 was a hard year for United States rock art with major instances of vandalism reported in Utah (here, here) and now closing the year in Texas. Anyone with information about the incident in Texas should contact the Big Bend National Park Communication Center at 432-477-1187. Detailed view of vandalism in Big Bend National Park, Texas photo via NPS The National Park Service reports that there have been over 50 instances of vandalism to rock art in Big Bend since 2015. Read more at Art News (here) and Texas Monthly (here). At the Ancient Art Archive, we believe that the only long-term solution to vandalism is education. We must build a long term and wide spread appreciation for the images our predecessors left written on the landscape. To that end we have built education...