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    Rock Art Pilot Project Main Report

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    A report on the results of a pilot project to investigate the current state of research, conservation, management and presentation of prehistoric rock art in England commissioned by English Heritage from Archaeology Group, School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth Unviersity and the Institute of Archaeology, University College Londo

    A Probable "Hand-and-Eye" Petroglyph, Gallia County, Ohio

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    An isolated petroglyph found on a ledge at the Tycoon Lake Rockshelter, Gallia Co., Ohio, is probably an example of the "hand-and-eye" motif generally associated with the "Southern Cult" phenomenon of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. Another hand petroglyph, now destroyed, is illustrated from the Hanover Petroglyph Site, Licking Co., Ohi

    Petroglyphs at the Half Moon Site, Hancock County, West Virginia

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    A little known petroglyph site, originally studied by James McBride, is located at the upper end of the Half Moon site, Hancock County, West Virginia, McBride’s drawing and notes, along with the only previously published drawing (Squier and Davis, 1847) of the petroglyph site, which is now under water, are reproduced. The site is not to be confused with the Brown’s Island or Weirton petroglyph site which lies further upstream

    O pewnym „kazachskim” petroglifie i jego „podróży” w czasie i przestrzeni. Refleksja o społecznej adaptacji przeszłości

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    Author of the paper discusses social implications of the choice of a prehistoric rock art. image as a graphic symbol of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Adam Mickiewicz University. The essay is divided into two parts. The first one deals with implications which result from using a petroglyph as a rock art image. In this matter the paper stresses interpretative context of reading this petroglyph in terms of otherness, both on formal and epistemological levels. In the second part the author considers implications which result from choosing this particular petroglyph, which comes from Kazakhstan. Author demonstrates different social involvements of such a choice, which however well define a nature of cultural anthropology as an academic discipline, which, by definition, faces numerous epistemological and ethical dilemmas in its practice

    Ohio General Assembly H.R. No. 137

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    Bill passed by the Ohio State Assembly declaring that the Indian Head Rock was historically associated with the City of Portsmouth, Ohio.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/indian_head_rock/1004/thumbnail.jp
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