While Recently Out For A Stroll
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Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
longmg wrote:
Excellent capture, love to know what it says!
One of them says, "Eat At Joe's". Another says something about a product called 'Burma Shave'. The largest of the lot says, "If You Can Read This, You're Too Damn Close".
The rest of the petroglyphs were probably pecked out by Aliens so whatever they might be saying is foreign to me. The rock faces, on the other hand were completely silent, but every now and then I could hear a tree whispering in the breeze. Whatever was said though was hard to make out.
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Whatever the trees say is always hard to make out. Especially after 20 years working on Aircraft Carriers. On the other hand it's not difficult to make out what the jackasses with the rifles were thinking while they were adding their pockmarks. NOTHING in case anyone is wondering!!
Apr 10, 2023 18:49:27 #
I get it I should have said I would love to know the meaning, Petroglyphs typically are very important, just curious if you might have know the meaning, guess not. Still a great capture of historical records.
Apr 10, 2023 19:20:59 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
longmg wrote:
I get it I should have said I would love to know the meaning, Petroglyphs typically are very important, just curious if you might have know the meaning, guess not. Still a great capture of historical records.
Ok. Folks --and since you asked, longmg, I mean you in particular-- deserve a serious response. The problem with doing so is that though I've heard/read lots of speculation wrt 'what these mean or say', the simple fact is that nobody living actually knows for certain.
The best any of can do is to try to put these into some sort of temporal/cultural context, though even that can be pretty tricky at times. That said, the figures in the first image appear to be classic examples of what's been designated the 'Abajo-LaSal' style. Though I have not seen this exact equation made, I'd speculate that people who preceeded both the (so-called) 'Anasazi' and the 'Fremont' in this immediate region (Book Cliffs to the north, north slopes of the Abajo Mts to the south, western Colorado to the east, and the Colorado River to the west) and were culturally aligned with what's now called the 'Gateway Complex'. Essentially, they were Basketmaker Era people and the rock art they made dates very roughly from Late Archaic times (500 BC) through early Pueblo I times, or about 500 AD.
I could say a lot more, but much of that would be speculation.
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Thank you, I now have a starting point for further research, in a fascinating subject!
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