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1. Rock Art Sachin Kr. Tiwary

2. Rock art research involves many disciplines, among them:
Forensic science
Semiotics
Neurosciences
Cognitive sciences
Ethnography
Art history
Geomorphology
Geochemistry
Conservation science
Anthropology
Archaeology

3. What is Rock Art
• Art is the manifestation of innate beliefs,
outlook & purpose expressing the materialized
vitality of activity of man born out of his
experience.
• Rock art as the term implies is any type of
artistic activity found on natural rock surface is
rock art,which types of art?
• That may Rock Shelter, Caves and Boulder

4. Shelter

5. Shelter

6. Caves

7. Caves

8. Open Air Boulder

9. Open Air Boulder

10. Open Air Boulder

11. Types of Rock Art

12. (a) Petroglyphs or the
extractive art (Designs,
carved, abraded or
otherwise cut into cliffs,
boulders, bedrock, or any
natural rock surface, like:
Relief art, Engravings,
Hammering, Chiseling,
Abrading, Incising,
Pecking, Battering,
Gouging, Scratching, Cup-
marking, Bruising, Dotting
and Etching)
Types of Rock Art

13. Petroglyphs

14. (b) Pictographs or the
pigment art (Rock paintings-
designs painted in similar
locations). It does not include
geoglyphs, or petroforms-
designs formed by rock
alignment on the ground.
Technically, Pictographs may
be further divided into four
groups; transparent colour,
opaque colour, dry colour
and stencilled pictographs.
Pictographs are also known
as “rock paintings”.
Types of Rock Art

15. Pictographs

16. (c) Geoglyphs or
intaglios are made by
placing rocks on the
ground to form an image
or by clearing the ground
of rocks to outline an
image. It is huge designs
made on the ground and
are best seen from the air.
The ground is cleared of
rocks to make huge
figures or shapes

21. (d) Petroglyphs-
cum-Pictographs
means all those rock
art, in which after
petroglyphs,
pictographs has been
done, in the removed
rock surface. Like
this art we have seen
in Odisan rock art
and Hazaribagh
region of rock art.
Types of Rock Art

22. Petroglyphs-cum-
Pictographs

23. The vast corpus of rock art in
India is confined to sandstone
and granite pockets, stretching
from southern parts of Kerala to
the high altitudes of the Ladakh
and Zanskar valleys in the north
and from Gujarat in the west to
Assam and Manipur in the east.
However, the largest
concentration is confined to the
Vindhyan ranges of Madhya
Pradesh and its Kaimurean
extensions into Uttar Pradesh.
Equally important paintings and
engravings were reported from
Southern Deccan in the
extensive granite wilderness of
the Krishna- Tungabhadra Doab.
Distribution Of Rock Art Sites In India

24. Purpose of Rock Art
• Defining territory: , Route-
markers:, Astronomy:, Sacred
spaces:, Natural influences:
• Public versus private:
• This is our territory, I will post
this notice to keep others out;
• I have done a mighty deed, I
want everyone to know about it;
• I must pay homage to my gods, I
will create their image &
ceremonies;
• My clan & kin are the greatest -
we claim this area as ours;
• This animal is important, to me I
think about it a lot, I will draw its
likeness; I am bored, I will draw
something to pass the time;
• I have returned from a long
journey, I will try to show my
path way across the Land;
• My friend & I have had a great
ceremony, I will record it;

25. •My chief has asked me to go here & put
up some signs along the trail, I will get it
Over with as soon as possible;
•some record ceremonies in the life of an
individual or community,
•Some give instructions which still work
today on where and how to hunt game.
•I have a new artistic design in my mind; I
will record it before I forget.
•Another common interpretation of rock
art is that it was created as hunting
magic.
•Doodling: Doodling has been proposed
as another interpretation of rock art. This
would involve designs made for no
specific purpose. Occasionally it is
assumed that creation of rock art was an
activity of leisure time.
•Religious Magico
•Purpose of Rock Art

28. Houses Style
Way of ritual practices
Dance forms
House Hold object
Ornamentation
Dresses
Hunting Weapon
War
Weapons
Knowledge of Colour
making technique
cognition
Extinct Flora & Flora
Palaeo-ecological
Palaeo-botanical
Social Life Style
Study of Rock
Art Can Provide
Plaeo-environmental

29. A cave complex in south-western France
Lascaux Caves:
the Prehistoric Sistine Chapel

30. Lascaux Caves:
the Prehistoric Sistine Chapel

31. Altamira Caves:
Discovered in
1879 by
Maria de Santuola
most exceptional evidence of
Magdalenian culture in
southern Europe

32. Altamira Caves:
Located near Santilliana del Mar in Cantabria, Northern Spain

33. Chauvet Caves Ardeche departement, Southern France

34. Chauvet Caves

35. Chauvet Caves

36. Ethno-Rock Art

37. Altai
Khakassia, beginning of XX century
Ethno-Rock Art

38. Ethno-Rock Art

39. Ethno-Rock Art

40. Ethno-Rock Art

42. D-Stretch software--Jon Harman New Techniques

43. New Techniques

44. New Techniques

45. New Techniques