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Dustign @dustign.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Ledger doodle: Achukwa (Entry) llustrated on antique 1925 #krinkmarkers #ink #posca #copicmarkers 8x7.5” #pantherwoman #chickasawartist #ledgerart #nativeamericanart #indigenousart #inthewater
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Pecos River Style anthropomorphic figures in Panther Cave. There are not hard dates from the artwork here. However, Dr. Carolyn Boyd dated 12other Pecos River Style murals and established that this style of painting begins more than 6,000 years ago.
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Our website is designed to be a resource for all interested in #history and the #deeppast www.ancientartarchive.org
The Moab Maiden petroglyph near Moab, Utah
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A carving of Celtic God Cernunnos
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A human figure drawn into the mud wall if Mud Glyph cave. The figures in the cave date from around 1250 CE placing them in the Mississippian era of Southeastern US archaeology. Of course we have no idea what these people called themselves. #archaeology #caveart #filmscan
Mud Glyph Cave petroglyphA human figure drawn in the mud in Mud Glyph Cave
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
1000 year old cave art in Tennessee #history #americanhistory #rockart
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Devilstep Hollow Cave, Tennessee » Ancient Art Archive
Devilstep Hollow Cave is a major cave at the Head of the Sequatchie State Park in Tennessee. The cave is a Mississippian era ceremonial site.
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
12,800 years of American History on the landscape. #americanhistory
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Ahu Tongariki, the largest collection of Easter Island statues. This site was destroyed by a tsunami and rebuilt by Chilean archaeologists.
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Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui » Ancient Art Archive
Ahu Tongariki is the largest collection of stone statues on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). It was destroyed by a 1960 tsunami and reconstructed in the 1990's by a team from the University of Chile headed b...
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Here's a great Sunday trip for any Atlanta or Athens GA people. Rock Eagle might be 3,000 years old, but we don't really know!
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Rock Eagle, Georgia USA » Ancient Art Archive
Rock Eagle is a large effigy mound in Putnam County, Georgia. It was constructed sometime between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago. A stone tower constructed in the 1930's allows for elevated viewing of this...
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The greatest concentration of petroglyphs in SE Alaska are on Wrangell Island at Petroglyph Beach. #RockArt #Archaeology
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Petroglyph Beach, Alaska, USA » Ancient Art Archive
Petroglyph Beach in Wrangell has the highest concentration of petroglyphs in the southeast region of Alaska.
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The largest snake effigy on earth is in Adams County Ohio. Thought to be 1,000 years old and made by the Fort Ancient Culture. #AmericanHistory #history #archaeology
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Serpent Mound, Ohio USA » Ancient Art Archive
The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot (411 m)-long, three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound on a plateau of the Serpent Mound crater along Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. Serpent Mound is t...
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Camel pictographs in Wadi Darbat, Oman. We have no age estimation on these paintings but the Queen of Shebas palace is at the head of Wadi Darbat. #Archaeology #rockart #camel #Oman #MiddleEast
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Alvarez Photography | Ancient petroglyphs on a rock wall in Kartlayt, Oman, depicting camels and human figures. | by Stephen Alvarez
Camel pictographs in Wadi Darbat, Oman.
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Ever wondered the difference between petroglyphs and pictographs? We break the kinds of rock art down here. #RockArt #Archaeology #history
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Rock Art, what are pictographs, petroglyphs and geoglyphs
Art is humanity's first true inventions. What is rock art and whats the difference between pictographs, petroglyphs and geoglyphs?
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The Electric Deer petroglyph from the Basin and Range National Monument in Nevada
A deer petroglyph and the milky way
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Education is the core of what we do #Education
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Camel pictographs in Wadi Darbat.
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Alvarez Photography | Camel Pictographs in Wadi Darbat, Oman | by Stephen Alvarez
Camel Pictographs in Wadi Darbat, Oman painted in black paint of unknown age.
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Beautiful work
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
10 places to see rock art in the US. #rockart #history
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Rock Art, 10 places to see it in the United States
The first 20,000 years of American History are written as rock art by Native Americans on the continent's landscape. Here are 10 places that you can appreciate that history across the country.
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Our work with Ute spiritual leader Larry Cesspooch
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The Rochester Creek Rock Art Panel
Rochester Creek is a large petroglyph panel in Emery County Utah that contains thousands of years of Native American images. Ute spiritual leader Larry Cesspooch…
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Art is humanity's first unique invention, but what's the difference between #peteoglyphs #pictographs and #geoglyphs ? Here is a handy guide!
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Rock Art, what are pictographs, petroglyphs and geoglyphs
Art is humanity's first true inventions. What is rock art and whats the difference between pictographs, petroglyphs and geoglyphs?
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Here's our case for building "Digital Twins" of cultural heritage sites. #NotreDame is a perfect example.
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Digital Twin of Notre Dame
A researcher created a digital model of Notre Dame that served as the blueprint for its preservation. That is what the Ancient Art Archive does with rock art sites
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Handprints are the universal symbol of humanity
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Hand Prints: Symbol of Humanity - Google Arts & Culture
A close look at the very first 'selfies'
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest
Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Agreeing with @nytimes.com reviewer "single best book I have read on Native American history." #indigenouscontinent #pekkahamalainen
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Stephen Alvarez @alvarezphotography.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
30 years ago explorers led by Jean-Marie Chauvet ventured into a narrow crevice in a cliff face in a valley in France. Painted on the walls was the lost world. The paintings are beautiful and unimaginably old. #ChauvetCave #Archaeology #PaleolithicArt #HistoryUncovered #HumanCreativity
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Newspaper Rock, Utah is a sandstone panel, roughly 200 square feet in size, covered in an incredible array of petroglyphs. These carvings, etched into the dark desert varnish of the rock, feature more than 650 individual images. Photos by @alvarezphotography.bsky.social
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AncientArtArchive @ancientartarchive.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A well known Barrier Canyon Style pictograph panel in central Utah. The central human image is the size of a person.
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