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In scholarly texts, a petroglyph is a rock engraving, whereas a petrograph (or pictograph) is a rock painting. [1] [2] In common usage, the words are sometimes used interchangeably. [3] [4] Both types of image belong to the wider and more general category of rock art or parietal art.
A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto [1]) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object. Pictograms are used in systems of writing and visual communication.
Fremont Petroglyph, in Dinosaur National Monument, attributed to Classic Vernal Style, Fremont archaeological culture, eastern Utah, United States Reclining Buddha at Gal Vihara, Sri Lanka, where the remains of two columns to support the structure that originally enclosed it is visible Nanabozho pictograph, Mazinaw Rock, Bon Echo Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
Buckhorn Draw Pictograph Panel; Courthouse Wash Pictographs; Fremont Indian State Park; Horseshoe Canyon (Emery and Wayne counties, Utah) Millsite Rock Art; Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument; Ninemile Canyon (Utah) Quail rock art panel; Rochester Rock Art Panel; White Canyon (San Juan County, Utah)
One of the largest densities of petroglyphs in North America, by the Coso people, is in Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons in the Coso Rock Art District of the northern Mojave Desert in California. The most elaborate pictographs in the U.S are considered to be the rock art of the Chumash people , found in cave paintings in present-day Santa ...
Evidence of Native American cultures, including the Fremont, Paiute, and Ute, is common throughout the San Rafael Swell in the form of pictograph and petroglyph panels. . Examples are the Millsite Rock Art and the Buckhorn Draw Pictograph Panel, with rock art left by the Barrier Canyon Culture and the Fremont C
Rock art may have been created by shamans during vision quests, most commonly in the form of pictographs (paintings on rock), but sometimes petroglyphs (engravings on rock) as well. No one is absolutely certain about the meaning of the Chumash Rock art, but scholars generally agree that it is connected with religion and astronomy.
Gilreath, Amy J. California Prehistory: Rock Art in the Golden State. In Colonization, Culture, and Complexity, edited by Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar, pp. 273–90. Lanham, MD: Rowman Altamira, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7591-1960-4. Harner, Michael J. 1953 21. Gravel Pictographs of the Lower Colorado River Region.