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'Breathtaking' 6,000-year-old Texas murals overturn myth of random rock art
Interesting Engineering ^ | Maria Mocerino | November 29, 2025

Posted on 12/03/2025 3:15:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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Carolyn Boyd examines the painting sequence of a Pecos River style figure at Fate Bell Shelter in Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site.
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1 posted on 12/03/2025 3:15:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 12/03/2025 3:16:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Kudos to the Admin Moderator, reason: "Randspam" [ 4354167 ])
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This composition structure proved to researchers that the art “faithfully transmitted sophisticated metaphysical concepts that later informed the beliefs and symbolic expression of Mesoamerican agricultural societies,” according to the news release.

It's an art and a bison.

3 posted on 12/03/2025 3:22:33 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’d love to see one of those proto-Texans from 6000 years ago try just one nice slice of moist smoked brisket and a spoonful of mustard potato salad.... and just see the looks on their faces.

They had it hard, they deserved it.


4 posted on 12/03/2025 3:24:34 PM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: SunkenCiv

I watch a You Tube channel called ‘Tiny Cabin Life’ and he spends his time camping and paddling around our Great Lakes.

He finds TONS of these ‘cave writings’ on walls all over the Midwest that were obviously NOT underwater at some point. Mainly, they seem to be messages to fellow travelers about SCARY animals in the area or an upcoming water rapids, etc.

So interesting to think of all the people that came before us and left their mark. :)


5 posted on 12/03/2025 3:27:40 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It would be nice if they had more photos of the art.


6 posted on 12/03/2025 3:35:14 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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7 posted on 12/03/2025 3:37:26 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting article, SunkenCiv. I am not surprised the dates are getting pushed back. Much of the good recent research points to earlier and earlier dates of the first settlement of North America.

But, the concluding sentences of the article leave me a little “meh.” Color me a skeptic, but I am unconvinced that modern Southwest Indians tell stories directly related to this artwork. (And that is coming from a Choctaw who has respect for oral traditions.)


8 posted on 12/03/2025 3:38:19 PM PST by oldplayer
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Metaphysical.....

As I have stated previously, I had a double college major of Spanish and Archaeology. I eventually realized that one could not pay a mortgage, or any other bill, with archaeology.

Before I ceased pursuing the Archaeology degree, I was fortunate to participate in excavations in California, and then Central America.

In California, there were these smaller shaped rocks. Imagine a smaller wine bottle, and the top is a little thicker. The anthropologists speculated on all sorts of the possible religious and cultural significance of these artifacts. There was no written materials to explain or hint at them. Eventually, it was learned that the natives tied the rocks to their fishing nets to stabilize them in the water.


9 posted on 12/03/2025 3:39:38 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: gundog

That’s got to be SOUTHERN ‘cave drawings,’ LOL!


10 posted on 12/03/2025 3:40:44 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Is Arizona southern?


11 posted on 12/03/2025 3:43:56 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: SunkenCiv
Art Rock, as opposed to rock art


12 posted on 12/03/2025 3:50:34 PM PST by Pollard
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To: gundog

From me, yes it is! (SW corner of WI) :)

Anything below the Mason-Dixon line is fair game, LOL!


13 posted on 12/03/2025 3:58:10 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Bookmark


14 posted on 12/03/2025 4:00:15 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: Pollard

“Love is the Drug” was quite possibly the first disco song.


15 posted on 12/03/2025 4:00:57 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: SunkenCiv

Continued on Next Rock.


16 posted on 12/03/2025 4:06:12 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: SunkenCiv

Breathtaking!!

A bit of an exaggeration, no?


17 posted on 12/03/2025 4:19:25 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Anything north of Oklahoma is a yankee to me...


18 posted on 12/03/2025 4:21:34 PM PST by Bikkuri
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To: gundog

Look, he already knows his ABC’s.


19 posted on 12/03/2025 4:36:54 PM PST by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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He’s a sly one.

There’s a clay bank above the nature area behind the elementary school that I attended. Some young scholar scratched “f-u-k” into it

20 posted on 12/03/2025 4:54:27 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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