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Monganaut
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Edited Mar 30, 2013, 11:03
Re: An American viewpoint
Mar 30, 2013, 10:52
Think there must be something about the 'eye in' theory, as my missus says this 'dowser' does it all over the Wales and the West, and on the whole she says, does OK, if not better than you'd expect for that type of exercise (and that's something coming from my other half, who, if nothing is a committed 'rationalist'). She said one place where he was successful, the borehole was almost 100 feet below the surface. Maybe he knows what to look for terrestrially and geologically, and the dowsing is a bit of theatre for the peeps he's doing it for. I'll see if I can prod her about his name, maybe he's got a website or something.

As to the rock art near springs/rivers, that's an interesting hypothesis. Though finding water in the UK is never really gonna be that hard compared to the native Australian experience.

On a slightly different slant to that, I was listening to the first omnibus edition of the Radio 4 documentary 'Noise, A Human History' again the other day, and had thoughts about rock art maybe pointing to places where lithophones or places which echo or have weird 'sound' characteristics may have once, or indeed still be. Also, we'll never really know to what extent or indeed how close tree/scrub cover was at the time the art was made. Some of these places, and the 'reverb' or 'deadening' effect on sound that these places possibly 'conjured' probably look and sound a lot different now to back then. If you look at some of those cup and ring marks with the line from centre to outside cutting through concentric rings, they do look a little like a stick person shouting, singing or certainly 'emitting' sound. Maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.(Mind you, most 'mic' symbols on your computer don't look too dis-similar to some of those rock carvings I'm talking about.)
Hell, playing about with noise and music myself, I'm often astonished at some of the amazing sounds coming out of my echo chamber, and I have a basic knowledge of how it works. Imagine how baffling/intriguing it must be to a culture steeped in superstition and the supernatural.

Few nice pics of what I mean here...

http://rockart.ncl.ac.uk/panel_image_view_larger.asp?pi=326&imageid=4026

http://heddonhistory.weebly.com/1/post/2012/09/understanding-prehistoric-rock-art.html

http://www.sedgefieldweb.co.uk/DurhamRockArt.asp
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