@elaterite in two times in my life I’ve had opportunities to view pictographs/petroglyphs. It’s one thing seeing them in a photograph. It’s downright surreal seeing them in person, right in front of you. What a gift that you were able to find these.
@ambivalena Yes, that would be interesting to know, but that has been lost to time. Since I'm not of the culture who made them I refuse to even guess what the person had in mind who made them. But I love finding them and looking at them!
@elaterite I think it would be hard to guess even if it was your culture. The petroglyphs that we got over here is not easy to understand either, even if it is "the same culture" as I belong to.
@ambivalena You nailed it. I always loath any attempt to attribute meaning to pictographs and petroglyphs. They range up to 10,000 years old, however, these are probably around 1,200 years old. Too much has changed and there's just no way to understand what the person was thinking when they drew them
@elaterite
The mudflow to the left is apparent in this frame. In the 80s I placed an 8X10 print of this Sinbad panel in U of UT library special collections. Good rock art collection there. #Pictograph
@jqjacobs Oh, so the mud erosion on the panel to the left is relatively recent? It looked like it was an amazingly beautiful panel at one time. I could see suggestions of several more elements to the left of the eroded anthropomorph.
Add comment