Talk:Rock art

message: *Mobiliary rock art - smaller, portable examples of either of the above types.
I moved this here from the article page. Neologism? I can find no references for it. Thanks!  Mattisse 20:16, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Neologism?

message: The article on Cave painting also covers rock art, overlapping with this article. I'd like to suggest that we move the rock art material to this article and omit it from the cave painting article. TimidGuy (talk) 12:17, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed I think your observation and suggestion are valid and the distinctions should be made, rather than conduct a merger. - Shiftchange (talk) 14:04, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

text: I see that although the intro says something about usually excluding rock art, the background section contradicts this and the article has a number of links to cave sites. Have you revised your opinion? I agree with the comments you made above. Doug Weller talk 10:30, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  8 years later I feel the same way, however I haven't spent a great deal of time on either articles. - Shiftchange (talk) 11:48, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, Doug. I do wish the Cave painting article would focus exclusively on cave art, and mostly the figurative art from the period 40,000 -10,000 BC. I'd like to see this article focus on rock art, and to keep the two separate. TimidGuy (talk) 16:35, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cave painting vs Rock art 

message: Someone just added Mayan hieroglyphics. Is that within the scope of this article? TimidGuy (talk) 11:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: My opinion is no. Inclusion of "hieroglyphics" could open the article to Chinese, Egyptian, Etrsucan, all forms of middle-eastern communicative forms on clay tablets, etc etc. I don't think of rock art as written "script" that tells a linear story, but more as decorative and ceremonial ... but I admit that almost any human application of figures, shapes, forms etc in any medium brings with it some symbolic or ceremonial content. Moreover, some of the Mayan shapes/forms etc do appear in Southwestern US rock art, apparently "imported" along trade routes. Other thoughts? Bill Wvbailey (talk) 16:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope of article 

message: Why is the Bhimbetka rock painting picture featured twice in the article? let's remove one (I don;t know how though...) :-)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.254.24.142 (talk) 16:47, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. I also removed the photo gallery. There are links to the locations in the article, and those linked articles have images there. Clubmarx (talk) 17:08, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  double picture 

message: Clonfinlough Rock Art
*Lower Pecos region, southwestern TexasThe Rock Art Foundation. (retrieved 21 July 2011)
	
*Oregon, Washington, Idaho[Oregonrockart.com Oregon Rock Art]
*Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico
	
*UtahSchaafsma, Polly. The Rock Art of Utah. (1994) Simms, Steven R. The Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah. (2010) 
Sundargarh, Orissa locations with rock art include: Barikupa, Manikmoda, Gastimoda, Imlimoda, Lekhamoda, Rajbahal, Manikmoda, Tongo, Ushakothi, and Ushakupa"Native American Rock Art: Messages from the Past", by Yvette La Pierre
'Great King' pictographs of Malipo, Yunnan, China
* Jubbah Rock Petroglyphs and Inscriptions
	
* Ghauta Rock Petroglyphs and inscriptions
Shuwaymas Rock Petroglyphs and Inscriptions
Doug Weller talk 10:27, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted sites - someone might turn these into articles 

message: See Robert Bednarik's article Rock Art And Pareidolia where thousands of petroglyphs that in reality didn't exist were innocently identified as rock art. Doug Weller talk 16:48, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why rock art is "found" where it doesn't exist 

message: I removed information that mixed between petroglyphs and pictographs from the petroglyph article to create Rock art in Iran. It needs further clean up, since the original author was not a fluent English-speaker. Ahalenia (talk) 17:31, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Rock art in Iran]] 

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message: The issue:  Parietal art (PA) effectively means Cave art, which currently redirects to Cave painting.  PA can be in any medium/technique,  and is found all over the world. The current PA article just covers the famous Upper Palaeolithic paintings in France & Spain. 
The proposal: PA should redirect to here (Rock art), a slightly wider category, with a much bigger and more global article, with something like the current PA lead added as a section. The French/Spanish content now at PA will usefully fill gaps in Rock art in Europe.   
Johnbod (talk) 21:33, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, fancy meeting you here!  See top of the section. I'm not proposing to change it. Johnbod (talk) 00:02, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: To expand on that a bit: the three main groupings of rock art by technique are petrogylph, rock relief and cave painting.  All have fairly long articles with reasonable global coverage. I think this basic arrangement is correct. Johnbod (talk) 16:04, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Revised proposal

message: Just created a blind wiki link to the above. The site has not been named yet, though it looks like it is significant, and will deserve its own page. For now I have put a paragraph on the History_of_Colombia page.
31.53.61.168 (talk) 22:12, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serranía La Lindosa, Guaviare Department, Colombia