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Meanings of petroglyph in English
Images carved on a rock surface as a form of rock art.
Synonyms
Examples for "rock engravings"
Examples for "rock engravings"
1
The experience already gained in visual records, such as drawing, rock engravings, and wood carvings, was taken over in the experience of the written word.
2
Probably more than 30,000 years passed between the time of cave paintings and rock engravings and the first acknowledged attempt at writing.
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But even Harm, Tor came to realize, had been consigned to one side of the rock carving, as if history had passed it by.
2
A few hundred yards from this well-preserved rock carving, a round tower 90 or 100 feet in height has been erected.
3
Bumbusi National Monument includes 18th-century ruins and pre-colonial rock carvings.
4
There's also plenty of ancient rock carvings nearby, with "graffiti" dating back thousands of years.
5
Spain's Castilla y León region is home to prehistoric rock carvings that are vulnerable to damage from wildfires.
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Bumbusi National Monument includes 18th-century ruins and pre-colonial rock carvings.
2
There's also plenty of ancient rock carvings nearby, with "graffiti" dating back thousands of years.
3
Spain's Castilla y León region is home to prehistoric rock carvings that are vulnerable to damage from wildfires.
4
They're found on Greek pottery, on Spanish petroglyphs, rock carvings, and on the floors of medieval cathedrals in Europe.
5
And the 'neutral' and 'innocent' fields around the statue and the rock carvings were perhaps places of torture and burials.
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She followed him into a dimly lit corridor with walls of grotesquely carved rock.
2
That's just a lump of carved rock.'
3
At last only a long, gently rising slope separated the fugitives from that labyrinthine network of wildly carved rock.
4
It was certainly a place of human sacrifice.' She pointed out some grooves in the carved rock beneath them, 'See.
Usage of petroglyph in English
1
To Shoshone, petroglyph sites known as Poha Kahni, House of Power.
2
Everyone at the table looked at the drawing of the petroglyph.
3
Like a petroglyph, but-certainlynothing like it has been found in the Americas.
4
Another version, by Davidson and Struve, of the discovery of the petroglyph is as follows:-
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It's a petroglyph from the Hathor Temple at Dendera.
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All I know is that petroglyph is real.
7
There was a petroglyph carved into the wall.
8
How'd you know about this petroglyph?
9
Denis took out some butcher paper and held it against a petroglyph and rubbed it lightly with a crayon.
10
Still, they had the petroglyph.
11
There'd be a marker-thepetroglyph.
12
You'll need to ascend four wooden ladders to reach the reconstructed kiva, built into the floor of a huge, petroglyph-covered cave.
13
The ancient petroglyphs in Chile's mountainous Atacama desert see few visitors.
14
Kuyuk took them to three canyons with monkey sun god petroglyphs.
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Other surfaces were covered in petroglyphs to a great height.
16
There was only the jumble of rocks, and the petroglyphs.
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Translations for petroglyph
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Petroglyph through the time