petroglyph

(noun)

An engraving or carving into a rock face, usually created with a hammerstone, chisel, or fine metal blade.

Related Terms

  • pictograph
  • pastoralist

Examples of petroglyph in the following topics:

  • Bronze Age Rock Carvings

    • Petroglyphs, or rock engravings, exist around the world and range in possible purposes from ritual to communication to narration.
    • Petroglyphs (rock engravings) are images containing pictograms and logograms, created by removing part of a rock surface via incising, picking, carving and/or abrading.
    • Some petroglyphs are thought to be astronomical markers, maps, or other such forms of communication.
    • A petroglyph that represents a land form or the surrounding terrain is known as a Geocontourglyph.
    • Define and describe the different kinds of petroglyphs found around the world.
  • Rock Art in the Sahara

    • With the help of these pictographs and petroglyphs, archaeologists and scientists have begun to piece together information about the complex societies that once inhabited the region.
    • First discovered in 1933, more than 15,000 petroglyphs have been identified.
    • One petroglyph in Mauritania depicts pastoralists on horseback as they tend their livestock.
    • Petroglyph depicting a possibly sleeping antelope, located at Tin Taghirt on the Tassili n’Ajjer in southern Algeria.
  • Carving

    • Petroglyphs, or rock engravings, are perhaps the oldest surviving forms of carved sculpture, created by removing part of a rock surface by carving, abrading and incising .
  • Stonework on Easter Island

    • Easter Island has one of the richest collections of petroglyphs in all Polynesia, with over 4,000 petroglyphs cataloged.
    • There are distinct variations around the island in terms of the frequency and particular themes among petroglyphs, with a concentration of Birdmen at Orongo.
  • Pre-European Hawaiian Art

    • This art includes wood carvings, feather work, petroglyphs, bark cloth (called kapa in Hawaiian and tapa elsewhere in the Pacific), and tattoos.
  • Art and Architecture of the Southwest Cultures

    • In the Southwestern United States, numerous pictographs and petroglyphs were created.
    • Petroglyphs by these and the Mogollon culture's artists are represented in Dinosaur National Monument and at Newspaper Rock.
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