Rock Art in Time - San Diego Rock Art Association Symposium 2022

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Anthropological surveys of hunter-gatherers and pastoral peoples from Siberia and North America during the early 1900’s recorded wide-spread use of lunar calendars for the observation and harvesting of terrestrial and aquatic animals. Volumes of evidence in biological fields followed throughout the 20th century that record animals across the biological spectrum as being cued by the sun and dark/light phases of the moon.

This study explored whether geometric patterns accompanying depicted animals in Upper Paleolithic Franco-Cantabrian cave art, lunar calendars of hunter-gatherers and pastoral peoples as recorded in the anthropological surveys, and the light/dark lunar cued biological behavior of significant animals presented can be correlated. The results expand on Alexander Marshack’s hypothesis of time-factored markings on Upper Paleolithic artifacts.

Bernie Taylor is a naturalist, author and archeoastronomer whose research explores the origins of mankind’s creativity and awareness of the natural world. His works in these areas include Biological Time (2004) and Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero (2017) which explore a deep root to mankind’s creative capacity by looking at how hunter-gatherers viewed themselves through Paleolithic cave art to 40,000 ago. Bernie proposes that select cave paintings are fundamental pieces in the human journey to self-realization, the foundation of astronomy, and a record of biological knowledge that irrevocably impacted some of the artistic styles, religious practices, and stories that are still with us.

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