The visit to International Rock Art Exhibition, which is currently running in New Delhi, has been a great effort where rock art formations from across the world have been displayed. The amount of information displayed indicates the depth of research which has gone into organising such an exhibition.
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| Major Rock Art sites in North America |
The following has been displayed at the exhibition regarding rock art of North America.
"It has been displayed The North America is very rich in Rock Art distributed throughout the continent. Rock art sites are known to occur from the northern most point at Bering Strait in Central Alaska to Panama, the southernmost country of the Latin America. All these countries have rock art sites but the richest concentration is in the south western part of the USA. The states include California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah. The traditions practised here have great variations in subject matter, style and technique reflecting diverse thought processes of the early inhabitants of America. The colourful and complicated geometric images of Chumash people in Western California are believed to be done in trance or in intoxicated condition. Thousands of petroglyphs in the canyons of Coso Range are one of the richest concentrations of rock art. The noteworthy among them are Patterned Body of Anthropomorphic figures, sometimes associated with animals and depictions of 'Big Horn sheep'. The delicate Fremont Style and large mummy like figures of Barrier Canyon in Utah, the mysterious shamanistic representations of Texas etc. are the other notable traditions".
"It has been displayed The North America is very rich in Rock Art distributed throughout the continent. Rock art sites are known to occur from the northern most point at Bering Strait in Central Alaska to Panama, the southernmost country of the Latin America. All these countries have rock art sites but the richest concentration is in the south western part of the USA. The states include California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah. The traditions practised here have great variations in subject matter, style and technique reflecting diverse thought processes of the early inhabitants of America. The colourful and complicated geometric images of Chumash people in Western California are believed to be done in trance or in intoxicated condition. Thousands of petroglyphs in the canyons of Coso Range are one of the richest concentrations of rock art. The noteworthy among them are Patterned Body of Anthropomorphic figures, sometimes associated with animals and depictions of 'Big Horn sheep'. The delicate Fremont Style and large mummy like figures of Barrier Canyon in Utah, the mysterious shamanistic representations of Texas etc. are the other notable traditions".
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| Rock Art geometrical designs in Arizona |
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