Concept information
Preferred term
petroglyphs
Definition
- Petroglyphs are a subset of the general category of rock art or rock graphics, which also includes pictographs and geoglyphs. Petroglyphs (petrōrock, glyph-carving) are man-made images or a series of geometric patterns that are carved, pecked, chipped, or abraded into stone using crude hand-held implements such as rocks, bones, antlers, and a wide variety of other objects as a chisel. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Petroglyphs]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/petroglyphs
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