FourWinds
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Re: Rock Art Mystery
Oct 09, 2003, 21:45
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You only have to look at some of the better preserved passage tomb art to see that it's picked. I'm not sure bone or antler would have done all of it, but it's certainly precision work. Probably with a small stone hammer. They found big rounded (river rolled) stones that had been blunted through hammering at the Great Orme copper mines. These were probably swung below the legs, upwards at the rock face on leather/hide strapping. The method was clearly known for knocking off great chunks of rock, but swinging is too imprecise for carving cup&rings and spirals etc.
Carvings like the Olmec heads in the Amazon were probably carved in the manner described by Steve, but not rock art.
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Hob
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Re: Rock Art Mystery
Oct 09, 2003, 21:51
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So you reckon no-one knows for sure? Proper mystery.
Great Orme is a sore point for me. Didn't have time, so close, yet we ended up at the bloody tourist tat, but the mine? Nope! What a sickener.
What were the picks made from I wonder (and will probably keep wondering)?
Hob
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FourWinds
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Re: Rock Art Mystery
Oct 09, 2003, 21:52
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emailed them
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FourWinds
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Re: Rock Art Mystery
Oct 09, 2003, 21:52
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Hope your addy is still the same :-)
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FourWinds
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Re: Rock Art Mystery
Oct 09, 2003, 21:55
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Perhaps a simple hammer. A quartz stone to scratch in the pattern and then chip away holding it. Or, wedge the pointy quartz in a split twig and bind it.
They had stone axes hafted like that, so why not smaller, precision tools?
Must stop thinking 'Stone Age' = stone age :-)
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Hob
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Re: I wanna seeIwannasee!
Oct 09, 2003, 21:57
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Or I'll thcweam!
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pebblesfromheaven
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Re: Rock Art Mystery
Oct 09, 2003, 21:58
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sure is ... it's on my tma profile now too
cheeyas big eeyas!!
.o0O0o.
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pebblesfromheaven
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Re: I wanna seeIwannasee!
Oct 09, 2003, 21:59
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move along, sir. nothing to see here...
;-)
.o0O0o.
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Hob
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Re: Rock Art Mystery
Oct 09, 2003, 22:00
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So trooo. Sometimes I reckon they were too smart to go mucking about with metal.
I'm thinking found objects, or mebbe treating softer tools in some way to make them harder, like you can do with sticks.
Nipping down the thread now as Iv'e just realised I'm not juggling my windows very well.
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FourWinds
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Re: Rock Art Mystery
Oct 09, 2003, 22:03
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You'd better check it then :-)
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