Images carved on a rock surface as a form of rock art.
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Examples for "petroglyph"
Examples for "petroglyph"
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To Shoshone, petroglyph sites known as Poha Kahni, House of Power.
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Everyone at the table looked at the drawing of the petroglyph.
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Like a petroglyph, but-certainlynothing like it has been found in the Americas.
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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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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.
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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.
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A few hundred yards from this well-preserved rock carving, a round tower 90 or 100 feet in height has been erected.
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Bumbusi National Monument includes 18th-century ruins and pre-colonial rock carvings.
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There's also plenty of ancient rock carvings nearby, with "graffiti" dating back thousands of years.
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Spain's Castilla y León region is home to prehistoric rock carvings that are vulnerable to damage from wildfires.
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She followed him into a dimly lit corridor with walls of grotesquely carved rock.
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That's just a lump of carved rock.'
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At last only a long, gently rising slope separated the fugitives from that labyrinthine network of wildly carved rock.
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It was certainly a place of human sacrifice.' She pointed out some grooves in the carved rock beneath them, 'See.
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Bumbusi National Monument includes 18th-century ruins and pre-colonial rock carvings.
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There's also plenty of ancient rock carvings nearby, with "graffiti" dating back thousands of years.
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Spain's Castilla y León region is home to prehistoric rock carvings that are vulnerable to damage from wildfires.
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They're found on Greek pottery, on Spanish petroglyphs, rock carvings, and on the floors of medieval cathedrals in Europe.
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And the 'neutral' and 'innocent' fields around the statue and the rock carvings were perhaps places of torture and burials.
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Near by, on the flat lava, covered by every tide, are rock carvings rudely resembling the outlines of human figures.
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For a moment or two the pair stood rigid as rock carvings, looking back, crouched a little, and deadly silent.
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However recent research has indicated the species had more in common with humans, such as tools used and rock carvings made in caves.
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One can easily count, in the vicinity of San Diego, over fifty mounds, and there are also rock carvings and paintings in various places.
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed thousands of rock carvings that could be linked to an Indian hunter-gatherer civilisation from 10,000 years ago.
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On its western side, in the shadow of Reintind there are over 80 rock carvings, believed to date from around 5000BC.