Petroglyph

The City of Karratha is in the Pilbara region of north east Western Australia. It was renamed from the Shire of Roebourne to the City of Karratha on the 1st of July 2014. The surrounding region contains the Burrup Peninsula – an area filled with petroglyphs, engravings in the rock which have been around for over 30,000 years. This is evidence of occupation of the Aboriginal people in this area and may even show a sign of the world’s first counting system. The mining industry in the area has boomed

has been around since approximately 3000 B.C.; this communication and technology was known as petroglyphs. In Another Look at the Pegtymel’ Petroglpyhs, author Richard Bland states, “Petroglyphs are a relatively common form of prehistoric communication, in the sense that those who drew the petroglyphs knew what they meant, as no doubt did many of their fellow tribesmen who viewed them” (Bland). Petroglyphs are images and symbols that are carved into the surface of a rock. This form of technology allowed

Cave Art has been a popular form of art during prehistoric period with there being records of rock art in a variety of various places ranging from Africa, Asia and Australia to Europe and the Americas. Some of the earliest example of cave art goes back as far as 40,000 years ago in Europe with “200 cave painting sites found in France” (Kelly and Thomas, 2016, p.255) such as the Cave of Niaux, as well as Creswell Crags in England and the Cave of El Castillo in Spain as well as a variety of others

generation to generation; first orally, then through petroglyphs, and finally handwriting. Although true handwriting has existed for five thousand years; first invented by the Sumerians as "a means of long distance communication which was necessitated by trade" (Mark, Joshua J. "Writing." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 28 Apr. 2011), it may not be the first form of writing ever invented. Some scholars argue that the petroglyphs found on cave walls in France and Spain were the

sites. Crossed by the famous Route 66 and surrounded by the high desert, the cultural heritage of ancient peoples and civilizations is everywhere. Not all these historic parks and monuments can be dated back to the prehistoric era, however. Well, Petroglyph National Monument can. Extended upon 17 miles along the city's West Mesa, the Monument consists in a volcanic stretch featuring several dormant volcanoes and displays very old – and very mysterious – images of the past. The site is

Most petroglyph are naturalistic illustrations of what the ancient people see and perceive. We are able to decipher the animal with animals we have in the present as well as animal fossils discovered over time. The carvings are a language of the ancient civilization that expresses art, religious meanings and beliefs, warnings of natural occurrences, special events and ceremonies. Each unique marking that may confuse us hold special meaning to the people of that time. The mythical creatures or monsters

that was found in Florida and it is the second rock art site that was found in the states. Rock art is very rare in Florida, but now with the site found there is a wider perspective on the importance of rock art. The site did not only include the petroglyph drawing of the past, but it included some artifacts that was use to help date the time that the cave was occupied.

Range is located at the intersection of the Great Basin and California culture area just above the eastern California desert. This region was left with arroyo walls, lava flows and pyroclastic boulders covered with petroglyphs of zoomorphic and anthropomorphic images (127). Petroglyphs are images created by carving, pecking or incising images into rock surfaces. The most common rock art element found in the Coso Range is that of bighorn sheep (129). Although bighorn sheep images were common in other

This study is focus on the 11th Unnamed Cave in Tennessee. This cave was the first of its kind because this cave is the only one that was found to contain pictograph, petroglyph, and mud glyph all in one site. The article explain that the site is significant because there are evidence to showed that the site underwent a series of diverse but interrelated uses. The first out of all the cave sites to contain all three different form of rock art. Also, because the site was found in the eighteenth century

variety of different artwork (Pecos). These pieces of art range from pots to pictographs and petroglyphs that can be located in a variety of places along the river. However, there has been an increase in human activity that has caused some of the pieces of artwork to be damaged or fully destroyed. One of the most popular places to find petroglyphs is along the Lewis Canyon. There are roughly thousands of petroglyphs that the ancient Indian tribes would carve into the stone but, since the rise in the human