Talk:Rock art

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• Mobiliary rock art - smaller, portable examples of either of the above types.

I moved this here from the article page. Neologism? I can find no references for it. Thanks! Mattisse 20:16, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cave painting vs Rock art

The article on Cave painting also covers rock art, overlapping with this article. I'd like to suggest that we move the rock art material to this article and omit it from the cave painting article. TimidGuy (talk) 12:17, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Agreed I think your observation and suggestion are valid and the distinctions should be made, rather than conduct a merger. - Shiftchange (talk) 14:04, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Will try to work on it this weekend. TimidGuy (talk) 15:50, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Scope of article

Someone just added Mayan hieroglyphics. Is that within the scope of this article? TimidGuy (talk) 11:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

My opinion is no. Inclusion of "hieroglyphics" could open the article to Chinese, Egyptian, Etrsucan, all forms of middle-eastern communicative forms on clay tablets, etc etc. I don't think of rock art as written "script" that tells a linear story, but more as decorative and ceremonial ... but I admit that almost any human application of figures, shapes, forms etc in any medium brings with it some symbolic or ceremonial content. Moreover, some of the Mayan shapes/forms etc do appear in Southwestern US rock art, apparently "imported" along trade routes. Other thoughts? Bill Wvbailey (talk) 16:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Bill. I'm inclined to agree with you. Let's maybe exclude notation systems, especially since they would typically have their own article. Seems like this article serves to recognize the rich history of ancient imagery that has survived. TimidGuy (talk) 16:32, 9 April 2008 (UTC)