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As well as holding geographic and astronomical importance, other petroglyphs may also have been a by-product of various rituals: sites in India, for example, have seen some petroglyphs identified as musical instruments or "rock gongs". [5] Some petroglyphs likely formed types of symbolic communication, such as types of proto-writing. [6]
Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons; Black Mountain Rock Art District; Chalfant Petroglyph Site; Chumash Indian Museum; Coso Rock Art District; Hemet Maze Stone; Meadow Lake Petroglyphs; Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California) Petroglyph Point Archeological Site; Ring Mountain (California) Yellow Jacket Petroglyphs
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These examples are not as homogenous in style, quality, or subject as those from the earlier periods. They were created by a wider variety of peoples and tribes. The hunt of wild animals and chase of deer and goats by predators are still common. Middle Ages and modern time petroglyphs are fewer in number with only about 300 images. Scenes ...
They are found in an area known for its Aboriginal petroglyphs, between Gosford and Woy Woy, New South Wales, within the Brisbane Water National Park. The glyphs have been dismissed as a hoax by authorities and academics after their discovery in the 1970s, but there are still attempts to prove the false belief that they were carved by the ...
The rock carvings, which archaeologists call petroglyphs, are at a site called Serrote do Letreiro in Paraíba, an agricultural state on the eastern tip of Brazil. Researchers first observed the ...
Different kinds of engravings are engraved herein rock carvings of Sindh. The petroglyphs of bullock-cart, Sun towers, unicorns, Sindh ibexes, humped bulls, many stupas related to Buddhism, animals like lions, wolves, camels, dancing women, right swastikas, [2] wild-sheep, double and single humped camels, leopards, dogs, men with bows and arrows in attacking position, horse and camel riders ...
St. Victor Petroglyphs Provincial Historic Park features over 360 petroglyphs that have been estimated to have been carved between AD 200 and 1750. They are on a large sandstone outcrop and are the only known example of horizontal petroglyphs on the Canadian Prairies. They also represent the largest concentration of pre-contact rock art in ...