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Re: Rock Art Mystery
Oct 09, 2003, 21:45
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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