'Breathtaking' 6,000-year-old Texas murals overturn myth of random rock art

Interesting Engineering ^ | Maria Mocerino | November 29, 2025

[ZOOKER]

Not surprising that humans tag every flat surface available with “art”, but it must have been harder before aerosol cans were invented.

[Salamander]

That’s what was written on all the supplies belonging in the fine art classroom at my high school.

[SunkenCiv]

Rock, Art in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXSf1VBbTNY

[SunkenCiv]

Archaeology seemed interesting, but it appears to be pretty demanding, and maybe a great reason to spend a lot of time outdoors, particularly when there’s no money to live indoors.😊

[SunkenCiv]

Mmm, now I’m hungry again...

[SunkenCiv]

And under the Lakes for that matter.

• A Great Lakes 'Pompeii'? Lake Huron's depths hold secrets of human history [01/07/2025]
• At underwater site, research team finds 9,000-year-old stone artifacts [06/15/2021]
• At the Bottom of Lake Huron, an Ancient Mystery Materializes [06/06/2021]
• Ancient Caribou hunting site found underneath Lake Huron [04/29/2014]
• Archeological evidence of human activity found beneath Lake Huron [06/08/2009]
• Origins of underwater stones a mystery [02/09/2009]
• Stonehenge in Lake Michigan?(Potentially pre-historic stone formation discovered deep underwater) [01/13/2009]
• Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake Michigan [01/08/2009]
• Underwater Archaeologists Find Possible Mastodon Carving On Lake Michigan Rock [09/05/2007]

[SunkenCiv]

It was so breathtaking, the photographer kept passin’ out.

[SunkenCiv]

I graduated with Art. Each morning when he headed off to school, his father said “Bye, son.”

[SunkenCiv]

I agree, the population shifts and new coats of paint as it were aren’t qualitatively different from every other place humans have lived.

[SunkenCiv]

His full name was Fartholomew.

[SunkenCiv]

Perhaps my all time favorite piece of bathroom graffiti was

“To do is to be.” — Nietzsche
“To be is to do.” — Sartre
“Do be do be do.” — Sinatra

[GingisK]

I’m jaded. That didn’t take my breath away, or make me take a deeper one. Its lame. Sand blast that rock so someone can dress it up.

[Ezekiel]

Bi-nomial nomenclature.

Wow, it turns out it’s just not how people normally see things (or how normal people see things) —

βίσονας

Greek

Alternative forms
βίσωνας m (vísonas)

Etymology
From Ancient Greek βίσων (bísōn), a 2nd century borrowing from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“bison, wisent”) (see for full etymology).

Noun
βίσονας • (vísonas) m (plural βίσονες)

bison

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82#Greek

No wonder these rock artists were big into bison. How many times do we see the Bs and Vs swap around in linguistic-animaly world?

They had the vision! (Go big or go home.)

>>>”But it didn’t stop there,” Boyd explained to Texas State. “Using the same graphic style, symbol system, and rules of paint application, they continued to create these visual manuscripts for more than 4,000 years.<<<

[marktwain]

6000 - 2000 years ago. I wonder what happened that it stopped 2000 years ago.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL! I can see that, too. ;)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, there’s a LOT of stuff that wasn’t underwater at some point in the past.

So much History - I don’t know how you keep up! ;)

[SunkenCiv]

A younger generation came along, and, kids, they don’t respect nothin’. 🎨

[SunkenCiv]

I’m streaming another documentary in the other room about Doggerland (see our fine FR keyword for more). It’ll probably be on deck, depending on how it is.