rock art

[pippinwhitepaws]

didn't know where else to place this one...
oldest rock art site in the Americas...{best guess going}
Oldest Rock Art: Nevada Petroglyphs May Be North America's Most Ancient Carvings

 

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[Charl]

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/north-american-artifacts/370034-interesting-read.html

posting about this yesterday but the subject line gave no details. I thought the presence of cupules was significant and left some links to that effect...

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

the point I found interesting, I found a book at a yard sale...on European rock art...these carvings are almost identical...
I guess if one believes in the migration of native americans into the Americas...one has to suspect they came from somewhere else.
pangea...

 

[Tnmountains]

I read that yesterday. Hope they protect it. Thanks for sharing.

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

this is the text I found that shows similar rock art...only in Europe...fantastic photographs...
maybe humans were around prior to Pangaea becoming the continents we know today


Riddles of the Stone Age: Rock Carvings of Ancient Europe: Jean McMann: 9780500050330: Amazon.com: Books

 

[Charl]

Similar rock art is actually found on every inhabited continent. Many cupules in Europe and the Middle East are associated in time with the Megalith builders of the Neolithic Era. Pangea began breaking up in the Permian era, more then 200,000,000 years ago. The commonality in petroglyph design element of cupules found in Paleolithic cultures world wide would not have originated among a human race existing in Pangea before the age of dinosaurs. Cupules may have a common origin among Paleolithic people's that was retained as mankind migrated. But that it originated at a time when man did not exist, it's not necessary to invoke a notion such as that to explain their world wide distribution. People point to human footprints found with dinoprints in Texas that are not human at all. And their are other "anomolies" that cause some to think man has been here for hundreds of millions of years, but very few buy into it.

 

[NC Flake]

Another explanation for the cupules, though it takes away some of the mystery / magic, could be similar to a theory offered to explain the wide dispersion of pyramid architecture. The simplicity of the theory is probably the best evidence of its credibility.

The pyramid builders, whether Egyptian, Mayan, Indonesian, etc. Wanted to create a towering monument. With the only available material being stone the only way to build such a structure is constructing a large base tapered toward to the top. Most efficiently with 4 sides.
By extension, the creators of the rock art wished to make expansive designs by carving them from rock. The most efficient way to do so would be pecking out cupules in the rock rather than carving out long lines or trenches.
Obviously not to say they didn’t carve out lines or whole shapes, but the constant evolution of the same method could be explained by this line of thought.