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Feb 26, 2022 15:28:52 #

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Retired CPO wrote:

Thank you, Dennis. More coming! Yeah, I like them ... (show quote)

If you just post the photos then it would be up to the viewer to decide what it means and keep you off the pointy end of the hook where you might get CAUGHT. Just a suggestion.

Dennis

Feb 26, 2022 15:31:35 #

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Retired CPO wrote:

Thanks very much, texan. But it wasn't just happen... (show quote)

Seems as if you have a right to what to you think.

Dennis

Feb 26, 2022 17:07:00 #

Chembro2

THE FIRST TIME I SHOWED MY TWINS PICTURES LIKE THESE AND TOLD THEM ANCIENT MEN CARVED THEM IN STONE THEY HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. THEY SAID, I THOUGHT YOU SAID LIFE WAS HARD BACK THEN. THE MEN HUNTED AND PROTECTED THE TRIBE WHILE THE WOMEN GATHERED, COOKED AND RAISED THE CHILDREN. SO, THEY SUGGESTED THAT WHILE THE MOMS AND DADS WERE DOING THEIR THING THE OLDER KIDS WOULD HAVE BEEN PLAYING LIKE ALL KIDS DO AND THESE ROCK CARVINGS ARE JUST THE CHALKBOARD CREATIONS OF CHILDREN AT PLAY. IMAGINE THAT, IT TOOK SOME KIDS TO SEE THESE ETCHINGS IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT. I NOW AGREE WITH THEM. IT'S ALL JUST CHILD'S PLAY AND THEIR ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS LEFT IN STONE.

Feb 26, 2022 17:55:19 #

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Chembro2 wrote:

THE FIRST TIME I SHOWED MY TWINS PICTURES LIKE THE... (show quote)

That could be true, and I've thought the same thing with particular glyphs. But some of them show quite a bit of sophistication, especially when you think that they were all done stone on stone. Maybe it's a mixture of both. Teenagers working under accomplished artist to learn the trade, so to speak. Thank you for your comments.

Feb 26, 2022 18:09:22 #

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Chembro2 wrote:

THE FIRST TIME I SHOWED MY TWINS PICTURES LIKE THE... (show quote)

Yup. That answers that, I guess. Kids did it! Of course, some kids are more... what's that word? precocious? Yeah, precocious! Not to mention that some kids are clearly more imaginative than.............. some other kids. And besides, kids are now (and have probably always been) the only ones with time on their hands to fritter away like the slackards they actually are, y'know?

Plus, also & too, some kids have really keen insight, and that makes a great case for why kids oughta be heart surgeons and fighter jet airplane pilots and maybe, just maybe, the ones who could invent perpetual energy, too! What the heck; they've got the time and energy to do that kind of stuff, so why not?

(That caps key of yours permanently stuck, 'bro?)

And Chief: my sincere apologies for gratuitously sticking some kid's drawing onto your post.

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Feb 26, 2022 18:43:10 #

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Millismote wrote:

The rock drawings were in great condition. Who do you think made them?

Well, those posted here were made by the Freemont Culture people who were more or less contemporaries of the Anasazi Culture people. They lived from around 3000 to 2000 years ago plus or minus a thousand or two depending on who you talk too. And of course, they didn't just pop into and out of existence. Archaic Indians have been in North America for at least 12,000 years, probably more, and were probably the ancestors of all the later North American Indian populations.
As for the rock art depicted here, if you look carefully there are almost always older, less visible drawings/carvings located with or very near the more visible ones. I don't think anyone knows if these are just from earlier generations of the same people or from a different people altogether from long before. Or a combination of the two.
It seems that good, protected places made of good stone were very desirable for whatever artists were living in a particular place at a given time.

Feb 26, 2022 18:58:08 #

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Cany143 wrote:

Yup. That answers i that /i , I guess. Kids did... (show quote)

No problem, Cany. (Some kid!) You can always jump onto any of my posts. That's the kind of guy I am and the kind of poster that you are!

This is the funniest post I have seen on the UHH, BTW!

Feb 26, 2022 20:35:53 #

Bubalola Loc: Big Apple, NY

Retired CPO wrote:

1. These guys were very impressed with Big Horn Sh... (show quote)

Hey, Chief! I think the left figure in the pic. 2 has some kind of a human face. Try to zoom in a bit...

Feb 26, 2022 20:38:43 #

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

dennis2146 wrote:

Seems as if you have a right to what to you think.

Dennis

Well, yeah. But I'm a long way from a professional in art, archaeology or anthropology. And I know there are folks here much more knowledgeable and experienced about those subjects than I am. Thanks, Dennis.

Feb 26, 2022 20:52:23 #

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Bubalola wrote:

Hey, Chief! I think the left figure in the pic. 2 has some kind of a human face. Try to zoom in a bit...

Hi, Eugene. Yeah, I saw that. Seems like some people think it's a good idea to shoot at the figures on the walls. Those are two pock marks from bullets making up the "eyes" of the "face". I don't know if it was deliberate or just accidental placement of the bullets. Bullet pock marks are common the entire length of the canyon.