Website review: The Book: Aboriginal Rock Paintings...
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PiTrinam discovered 14 months ago- Interesting read. About a book. More to learn. PiTrinam from the page: " Rock art which involves paintings has sometimes been called pictographic. Many scholars simply call it rock painting, because pictograph also refers to drawings done on various media other than rock, like animal skins, wood and bone. Rock engraving is often used outside North America to refer to art involving removal of part of a rock face to make figures, but petroglyph is used by North Americans for the same phenomena. Rock carving is commonly used as an alternative to rock engraving and to petroglyph. Following well established North American usage, I will use the terms rock painting and pictograph interchangeably in this study, both referring to symbols painted on vertical rock faces. The rock art of the Churchill River belongs to the class called rupestral or parietal art by European scholars, distinguishing it from portable art. Parietal art occurs on immovable rock surfaces, while portable art is that found on small stones or utilitarian objects made of stone or any other materials which can easily be carried or moved about. "
