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Posted on 12/03/2025 3:15:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Texas researchers have now definitively dated a distinctive rock art tradition, a profound discovery shared across multiple ancient Mesoamerican cultures.
For thousands of years, ancient forager societies across southwest Texas and northern Mexico painted these stunning murals, known as the "Pecos River Style," inside remote limestone rock shelters.
These colossal murals stretch up to 100 feet long and soar 20 feet tall...
Though the desert climate perfectly preserved these significant American works, researchers only recently attempted to date the tradition...
To pinpoint the art's origin, researchers employed 57 radiocarbon dating analyses across 12 sites, utilizing plasma oxidation and accelerator mass spectrometry, which firmly placed the tradition's start at an astonishing 6,000 years ago.
"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."
These paintings -- featuring humanlike, animal-like, and geometric figures -- were previously assumed to be random additions, slowly expanded by different groups over time.
(Excerpt) Read more at interestingengineering.com ...
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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.Texas State University
It's an art and a bison.
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.
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. :)
It would be nice if they had more photos of the art.
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.)
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.
That’s got to be SOUTHERN ‘cave drawings,’ LOL!
Is Arizona southern?
From me, yes it is! (SW corner of WI) :)
Anything below the Mason-Dixon line is fair game, LOL!
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“Love is the Drug” was quite possibly the first disco song.
Continued on Next Rock.
Breathtaking!!
A bit of an exaggeration, no?
Anything north of Oklahoma is a yankee to me...
Look, he already knows his ABC’s.
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
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