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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.
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Not surprising that humans tag every flat surface available with “art”, but it must have been harder before aerosol cans were invented.
That’s what was written on all the supplies belonging in the fine art classroom at my high school.
Rock, Art in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXSf1VBbTNY
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.😊
Mmm, now I’m hungry again...
And under the Lakes for that matter.
It was so breathtaking, the photographer kept passin’ out.
I graduated with Art. Each morning when he headed off to school, his father said “Bye, son.”
I agree, the population shifts and new coats of paint as it were aren’t qualitatively different from every other place humans have lived.
His full name was Fartholomew.
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
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.
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