Posted on 09/11/2014 2:06:56 PM PDT by JimSEA
Pictograph Photo Gallery A pictograph is a drawing or painting that is created on a rock. It is not "carved" into the rock - that would be a "petroglyph."
This is a series of photographs of pictographs from around the world. There are many links to other galleries.
(Excerpt) Read more at geology.com ...
SunkenCiv, I’m sure you already have this. It showed up on Geology.com today.
Notice the pictures from Argentina closely resemble the ones from Utah and Nevada. Coincidence?
I noticed that also. Good question.
Texas. Big Bend area.
People everywhere tend to be ...well...people.
A few years ago my five year old nephew gave me a smooth, flat white rock about the size of my palm. He said, “Look at this, auntie. It looks just like a fish, doesn’t it?”
As I turned it over in my hands, I realized that it actually was shaped like a fancy aquarium fish. Like an angelfish or something. I was so inspired by that little rock that I painted it and turned it into a colorful (fantasy) fish, coated it with glossy polyurethane so that the paint couldn’t be scratched off, and sold it at a local art show as a paperweight. Sold it for 75 bucks. Probably could have gotten more, but I got the rock for free anyway. Inspiration is everywhere.
Even back in the pre-historic days, when humans huddled in their caves and hoped that the big monsters outside didn’t eat them, we still had the Artistic Spirit. The Muse. Back then, all they could do was scratch it on the walls. But the Artistic Presence of Humanity still endures.
Thanks JimSEA, seems like a good reason to ping the Digest members for this week.
Stephen Lekson’s rules..... everybody knew everything. Distance was not a problem. No concedes.
Just go to the seedier sections of any large city, and you will see more pictographs than you will ever want to see.
And you will see many, many similarities.
That guy gets around! :-D
I remember once in an elementary school class, the teacher asks another student during a lesson on fossils and such, "Johnny, if you found a seashell fossil on a mountaintop, what conclusion would you draw?"
The reply, after a moment, "Uh, I dunno. Somebody put it there?"
Yup, many petroglyph (rock art) images from around the world share a similar look and feel, many are almost identical. Most notable is the “squatter man”, and enigmatic image that may have a fascinating explanation and explain the phenomenon of rock art itself:
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That’s really remarkable. Thanks. Expansion from one group/culture?
Dinosaurs
I’d guess that the dinosaurs didn’t taste very good as we haven’t found a nice rib bone in any cave. Then I suppose these people all perished in the flood along with the dinos?
>>That’s really remarkable. Thanks. Expansion from one group/culture?
More likely there was a series of high voltage plasma discharges, similar to the Aurora Borealis, that was witnessed by all humanity at the time of the Biblical Flood, an account that is told in the mythologies of cultures world wide. The End of the World myth is the most common of all myth stories, with the Flood being but one element of a series of catastrophic events occurring in the heavens that involved immense electrical discharges and sky spanning plasma displays organized as per Peratt’s plasma experiments.
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