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  • The earliest rock art engraving of an American mammoth?

    02/21/2011 9:30:31 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 28 replies
    Stone Pages ^ | http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/004237.html | Edited from NatGeo News Watch
    On a cliff overlooking the floodplain of the San Juan River (Utah, USA), rock art specialists Ekkehart Malotki and Henry Wallace have examined several highly stylized images carved into the rock face including what they believe to be the first example of prehistoric Native American rock art to show a mammoth. While such images are common in the caves of Europe, they are surprisingly unknown in the New World.
  • 'Hardwired' to create rock doodles; professor says ancient art was 'an instinct'

    11/13/2009 6:01:02 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 17 replies · 522+ views
    Prescott Daily Courier ^ | Monday, November 09, 2009 | Bruce Colbert
    Images pecked in stone hundreds to thousands of years ago could be for religious reasons, to mark territories or simple doodles such as those still made today by children and adults. That is according to Dr. Ekkehart Malotki, a preeminent researcher into the history of rock art. "Creating art is a distinct piece of our biological make-up," he told about 50 people Saturday during his lecture at Deer Valley Rock Art Center. "It is an instinct." Malotki, a professor emeritus of languages at Northern Arizona University, said no one would ever know the true meaning of images pecked or painted...