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rock art

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rock art

Ancient or prehistoric drawing, painting, or similar work on or of stone. Rock art includes pictographs (drawings or paintings), petroglyphs (carvings or inscriptions), engravings (incised motifs), petroforms (rocks laid out in patterns), and geoglyphs (ground drawings). The ancient animals, tools, and human activities depicted often help shed light on daily life in the distant past, though the images are frequently symbolic. Sometimes a single site may have art that dates from several centuries. Rock art may have played a role in prehistoric religion, possibly in connection with ancient myths or the activities of shamans. Important sites occur in southern Africa, Europe, North America, and Australia.
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Byline: ANI London, November 12 (ANI): A researcher into the history of rock art has suggested that images pecked in stone hundreds to thousands of years ago could be for religious reasons, to mark territories or simple doodles, which were made on instinct by early man as a survival technique.
Early man drew doodles to increase odds of survival by Asian News International
Researching the local Neolithic rock art and knitting circles formed by generations of fishermen's wives became something of a fashion epiphany for the Yorkshire-born designer to stay true to his roots.
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There, under the watchful eye of archeologist Luz Graciela Joly, a girl tosses a coin onto a board titled "Road of Rock Art," and smiles as it lands on a space that reads "Photograph a rock art stone.
Banking on culture: through its small grants program, the ... by Hamilton, Roger / Americas (English Edition)
 
 
 
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