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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]
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Letter Description Category (individual hieroglyph articles) A § Man and his occupations: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: man and his occupations (4) B § Woman and her occupations: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: woman and her occupations (0) C § Anthropomorphic deities: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: anthropomorphic deities (0) D
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
The Serrote do Letreiro petroglyphs aren’t the first examples of rock art found close to dinosaur prints, but the authors of the study said they believe that the unprecedented clarity of the ...
Name of Alexander the Great in hieroglyphs, c. 332 BC, Egypt. Louvre Museum. Here, the 'house' hieroglyph works as a logogram: it represents the word with a single sign. The vertical stroke below the hieroglyph is a common way of indicating that a glyph is working as a logogram. Another word pr is the verb 'to go out, leave'. When this word is ...
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 ...
Water glyphs are a recurring type of petroglyph found across the American southwest, but primarily in southern Utah, northern Arizona, and Nevada. The symbols are thought to be of ancient origin (perhaps created by the Ancestral Puebloans) and have been dated using x-ray fluorescence to around 2000 years. Classification as a water glyph ...