You're transcribing the patterns on a cave wall? What for?

Part of a texture in a piece I'm doing. That's no cave wall, but a cantilevered boulder... not unlike pride rock actually. It's very cool, maybe 30 feet across.

Wow :O Local to you?

How old are the engravings ?

Ah Cool thats newspaper rock in Arches National park right?

No

Ah. a petroglyph.

Neefty.

I love petroglyphs! We have a few out here, but the dumb bastard locals keep defacing them. Decades ago, I saw the massive wall or petroglyphs outside of Las Vegas. towering figures and very inspiring.

Where's here?

Tucson AZ.

I recall some Petroglyphs of tall figures mentioned in one of Von Danikins' books, which kind of spoiled things for the rest of us. Some of the giant drawings on the Nasca plains were ruined by tourists driving dune buggies over them. Hopefully the rock carvings you mention are well away from Tourist traffic.

Yeah, folks can be pretty dense... ooooh it's old! Let's drive over it...

Transcribing it neat and clean like that makes me think of it like some sort of technical diagram... I wonder... I can just imagine it being used like a chart in a classroom...

It reminds me of old IBM
And/or gate diagrams! Eerie

first thing please, don't tell people where it is. second thing it might be a map or it might be a lesson in how to live, or it may even be some combination of both. either way these things inestimable value in their non-physical sense. like churches and classrooms. what the people who made it intended was known to them. odds are very good, there are people alive today who to whom it has specific meaning.

number 3 thanks for posting the image.

number 4 i will probably use it as map to build a 3d village or bit of countryside with. as i have done with several others.

this may even be one of the ones i've done that with. sort of looks kind of vaguely familiar. or rather a the interesting part of one that i wasn't as able to see this part as clearly before.

there's one in california that is believed to be a water allocation map for the northern sacramento river.

all of these things are special, even if they weren't to the people who lived in the area for thousands of years, simply for being something that was made longer about, then any book of religion, architecture or engineering.

Dont worry. The only way I'll share that information is if someone were to go there with me.

thank you

Hear Hear! And May the Elders thank you.

When I looked at this I started thinking about Terranova.

You never cease to amaze me how nerdy you can be. Silly foxer

Very cool!

Reminds me of one time I scribed runes on a rock. Wasn't anything special, twas just for fun :P

Cool

There are some here in central Nevada. One of them might have been a map to a hidden spring - or not. This one looks a bit like a mask for making a quantum computer...

I love petroglyphs and cave paintings, I come across them often on Geological trips in the Mojave and other high desert and native American areas. Though it is getting harder and harder to find them intact where some stupid teenagers have not drawn penises and pop culture references all over them.

It would be worth it. What will you use it for when its done? :)