What is Portable Rock Art? - by Portable Rock Art Museum
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- What is Portable Rock Art? A presentation by Rock Art Museum, Grand Falls, NB, Canada. 3 million years of prehistoric rock art explained. For more information visit www.rockartmus...
my theory is these are grave goods. in my neighborhood, graves are eroding out of hillsides. there are maybe 100 to 300 stones in a grave. not all are carved, some are just colorful river pebbles. the graves may have been added to on anniversaries like people put flowers on their loved ones graves, possibly causing an enormous build up of these stones. one thing for sure is there were a lot of people living here. the graves are as dense with graves as modern graveyards today. most stones have the indian and his totem (clan) depicted. often there are multiple totems, showing clans intermarrying, (just like totem poles). the bear is most prevalent, although there are mastodons, turtles, snakes, birds wolves, dogs, bison, rabbits, cats, artic lynx, ungulates like deer, etc. my best one shows an man riding a small elephant, clapping and smiling, as a bare naked indian girl dances with an infant in her arms i even have a very good horse, proving horses indeed were here the same time as man.
I've also seen folks riding horses, even with brimmed hats on. Here the tribal totum is a bird so somewhere on the stone or in effigee there's a bird. No bad JuJu here.
Hey Bobby this is Bobby. Good article. I'm curious about your grave goods theory. I live in W.N.Carolina and just yards from a small river. I find these artifacts in the river, digging in my vegable garden, walking on the mountain which I havto do to go anywheres unless I drive down the river. There's no big caves right here maybe one 16' deep but the others are just big enuf for 2 folks to get out the rain. But surely there's a reason, hete at least, why their so scattered. Thankyou Sir. PS. Sorry if you don't like to be called Bobby but that's what I've been called my whole life so I took liberties.
There is a small movement of people who have little knowledge on how stone is worked, suggesting these natural forms are rock art. I met a guy at the river who said man I found like 5 birdstones today, he had a handful of Natural river cobbles that he saw faces in. None of these rocks show actual evidence of being worked in my opinion.
I have so many artifacts in this category. Wish I could post here
Query "pareidolia." Worked stone should have angular edges and surfaces, and signs of tooling. These are all smooth, and the effect of moving water/ice/mud.
Here is an article on pareidolia.
www.rockartmuseum.com/i-see-rock-people
Great stuff!
I have a lot here in North Africa
Indeed!
Good stuff Rocky. Keep up the good work. Tim B.
Thanks for the informative video
Glad it was helpful!
Do you have a subreddit?
I have picked up a large amount of portable rock art does it have any value
It has great value. Study them and try to understand them and what they’re saying
I dobt think that humans did these. I have found too many of them. It should mean that everyone was a rock widdler. Per say... It's just not feasible. Whatever did the pyramids probably made these.. I don't think it's even clear to anyone how many of these there are. They are literally every where.
Prehistoric portable rock art exists globally. Even the Smithsonian has recently started to acknowledge the validity of portable rock art.
www.rockartmuseum.com/what-is-portable-rock-art
There was elephants and camels, sheep geese,horses, bison, etc, here in Western North Carolina. Even some critters I've never seen, reptile type. Just glad them fella's aren't here nowadays.
Who knows about the stone with red coloration? Looks like paint, or is it the rock's natural color? I have one like it.
It's ocher. For more than 300,000 years, it was used as a pigment on rock art.
www.rockartmuseum.com/ochre-pigment-and-rock-art
Interesting. I have a piece like this carved as a face that I found while arrowhead hunting here in Ohio USA.
They're either tools, effigies, or a combination of both. I've found Native American artifacts and some very nice "geofacts," too, in my own backyard.
some stones here in this video are from Morocco, elephant, monkey ans camels never been in canada, some idoles are from Morocco too (goose) an I saw unknown alphabet
All the rocks shown were found in New Brunswick Canada by myself, except for the few which are noted. Camels originated in Northern Canada. Elephants (proboscideans) existed in North America for millions of years. Primate fossils have dated as early as 56 plus million years old found in North America. Megafauna existed in North America for millions of years until their extinction 10,000 to 13,000 years ago.
www.history.com/news/giant-ancient-camel-roamed-the-arctic
www.rockartmuseum.com/elephants-mastodons-and-mammoths/
www.rockartmuseum.com/monkey-head-rocks/
www.rockartmuseum.com/megafauna-extinction-13000-years-ago/
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mazaris.blogspot.com/2013/07/les-elephants-dhannibal.html
thanks for the documentation, I'm not talking about animals in Canada that have been extinct for hundreds of millions of years, but a very large human migration from northern Africa to North and South America, there is only 2000 years old, after Hanibal's death
@@selotmani1 To clarify: Megafauna is the set of large animals that weighed over 99 pounds which went extinct in the Americas 10,000 plus years ago. Although it very difficult to date portable rock art, depictions of mammoths, camels, giant sloths etc means they are at minimum of 10,000 plus years old. According to the Bradshaw Foundation, “There is no particular reason to think that America was first colonized after the last ice age rather than before.”
www.rockartmuseum.com/pre-ice-age/