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Rock Art: 10 places to see it in the United States

by ancientartarch|March 2, 2025March 4, 2025|Barrier Canyon Style, cave art, Fremont, geoglyph, Great Basin, Nevada, North America, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming

10 places you can appreciate rock art across the United States. The first 20,000 years of American history are written on the landscape.

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?

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.

Great Gallery of Horseshoe Canyon, Utah USA

Barrier Canyon Style Rock Art

by ancientartarch|December 21, 2023October 28, 2024|Barrier Canyon Style, North America, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Rock Art Styles, Uncategorized, Utah

The Barrier Canyon Style (BCS) represents an intriguing facet of prehistoric rock art, primarily concentrated in Utah, notably flourishing within the San Rafael Swell and Canyonlands National Park regions

Petroglyphs in Gold Butte National Monument

Nevada man sentenced to 6 months in prison for damaging rock art

by Stephen Alvarez|November 17, 2023November 17, 2023|Nevada, North America, petroglyph, Rock Art

A Nevada man will spend 6 month in jail for defacing rock art in Nevada

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,

A Dark Pathway book review

by Stephen Alvarez|December 2, 2022December 2, 2022|cave art, Native American, North America, petroglyph, Rock Art, Tennessee, Uncategorized

Founding board member emeritus Dr Jan Simek has a new book about cave art in the Southeastern United States. Dr David Whitley gives us a detailed review. A Dark Pathway: Precontact Native American Mud Glyphs from 1st Unnamed Cave, Tennessee, by Jan F. Simek. 2022. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. xviii+195 pp., 85 b&w and 19 color figures, 14 tables, bibliography, index. ISBN 9781621907176, hardcover. By David S. Whitley Rock Art Research Institute University of the Witwatersrand “Mud glyph” and “1st Unnamed Cave” are not particularly inspiring terms that, at first glance, might promote reading this book. Yet these very earthy, workman-like words in the sub-title exactly belie the careful, compelling and in fact exciting study detailed in this volume. Anyone interested in the Native American symbolic and spiritual world will benefit from and enjoy this book; it should be required reading for those concerned with the indigenous southeastern US...