Fitzroy River drawings. From Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science Report 1895. Report of the 6th Meeting held in Brisbane, Queensland Jan. 1895. Edited by John Shirley. Published by The Association at the University, Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales. Green cloth boards 874 pages illustrated 22.5 × 15 cm. © Andy Brill via Flickr.
Rock and cave art of the Australian aborigines, discovered during various expeditions into the Australian interior.
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Petroglyphs. Sears Point Archaeology Site. Yuma County, AZ, USA. © chris_crssd via Flickr.
Strong winter swells have washed away the sand from the lava rock along Oahu’s North Shore, exposing petroglyphs of dogs and human-like figures (Photo by Donna Ching/Historic Hawaii Foundation via Westerndigs.com)
Wanampum Petroglyphs at Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, Vantage, Washington. Photo by Manuel Rincon via Panoramio.
Eagle's Nest Petroglyph, Jubbah Two regions are known to contain the best and oldest examples of Neolithic rock art: Jubbah, northwest of the city of Ha’il – and Shuwaymis, southwest of Ha’il and near the town of al-Hayit. © Arabian Rock Art Heritage. Original file found here.
Figure 6. Sketches of characteristic and representative examples of Coso Range Patterned Body Anthropomorph petroglyphs. Images come from elements located within the rock art galleries in Little Petroglyph, Big Petroglyph, and Sheep Canyons. Images range in size from the largest at three to four feet in length and the smallest being just under a foot.
Figure 9. Comparison of an actual bird foot (e) with implied bird feet (a, b, c) and three- digit non-bird feet (d) in various rock drawings throughout the American Southwest.
a- Wading bird petroglyph, Hohokam Culture, Sears Point. Arizona.
b- Coso petroglyph PBA with bird-like feet, Upper Renegade Canyon, Coso Range.
c- Wading bird petroglyph, Puerco Ruin, Arizona.
d- Anthropomorph petroglyph, Picacho Mountains, Arizona.
e- Drawing of red-tailed hawk foot based on photo.
Fig. 68. Left: Northern hemisphere petroglyphs from the Columbia River Basin, 45.65° N, 121.95° W. Right: Oblique view into the auroral plasma column from these coordinates.
