Smokecreek1
Smokecreek1
Thanks Ski-your rock art pictures always get me thinking again. Frank-you bring up a subject that "arcks" and other interested folk bring up and discuss all the time-it's something called(1)"independent discovery and defusion" (meaning a good idea spreads from one place outward and replaces lesser ideas) vrs (2)the same discovery made in many places by different peoples at different times(sort of evolves Darwin like). Depending where you are, big horn sheep rock art was thought to represent a certain hunting/religious tradition and/or culture (some today say it represents a mystic/religious cult/totum identification); whatever, did the idea spread from one guy doing his thing and pass on to his kin and friends and soon to the world--or did a bunch of different people discover that you -if you had the right technique and tool- could hunt bighorn sheep at different times, with different tools, and in different places? Hope this is not a hijack-it's not meant to be.
Is a hunter represented with the sheep? Does he have a spear, a atlatl, a bow and arrow-is something sticking out of it? Are the figures dancing? Do the figures represent the actual hunt, or the religious event asking for luck in hunting them or again, does it represent someone seeking his clans' totum (becoming a man initiation) and this has nothing to do with hunting. Are there rock features associated with them. You can go around and around over what it all means-makes archaeology like one big detective show-and sometimes fun.
When i got into archaeology years ago the Desert side-notched arrow head was thought to represent late stuff; today, it is a time marker for the late periods in the far west and but was first used much earlier in eastern Utah-what?. The DSN is usually associated with smaller game and the bow and arrow, while larger points are associated with larger game and sometimes different tools. Does that mean that the climate in eastern Utah was different than in western Nevada at the same time, or did deer take over from bighorns as the major game animal., or maybe different people came in and were used to hunting different things and using different techniques-what's the rock art show? What's the tools made out of(basalt points older than obsidian?), was the rock art painted or pecked? My mind is getting tired now, just thinking about it. Keep the TR's coming Ski and keep thinking about it all Frank. Great stuff to cuss and discuss around the campfire.Time for a drink.
Smoke
Is a hunter represented with the sheep? Does he have a spear, a atlatl, a bow and arrow-is something sticking out of it? Are the figures dancing? Do the figures represent the actual hunt, or the religious event asking for luck in hunting them or again, does it represent someone seeking his clans' totum (becoming a man initiation) and this has nothing to do with hunting. Are there rock features associated with them. You can go around and around over what it all means-makes archaeology like one big detective show-and sometimes fun.
When i got into archaeology years ago the Desert side-notched arrow head was thought to represent late stuff; today, it is a time marker for the late periods in the far west and but was first used much earlier in eastern Utah-what?. The DSN is usually associated with smaller game and the bow and arrow, while larger points are associated with larger game and sometimes different tools. Does that mean that the climate in eastern Utah was different than in western Nevada at the same time, or did deer take over from bighorns as the major game animal., or maybe different people came in and were used to hunting different things and using different techniques-what's the rock art show? What's the tools made out of(basalt points older than obsidian?), was the rock art painted or pecked? My mind is getting tired now, just thinking about it. Keep the TR's coming Ski and keep thinking about it all Frank. Great stuff to cuss and discuss around the campfire.Time for a drink.
Smoke
