Who Buys Portable Rock Art

Over the years, the most common story told by the people finding these rock art pieces is when they share them with others, they are told that they are crazy, or that it’s just pareidolia, or that it’s “just a rock.” While I have to admit that some of the pictures I get sent are very hard to distinguish what the sender is describing, the truth is that I’ve heard the same story so many times that I have come to the conclusion that there must be more to this, and I want to better understand it. When people send me their rock art finds, I tell them “I’m not a rock art expert, and I can’t tell you anything definite about what you have, but I’ll share it on the blog and hope that someone else will provide more information.” That’s still my basic answer, but this page will be the beginning of some more formal research in order to help us all better understand what all these people are finding and sharing.

For those who say “it’s just a rock,” one interesting explanation is as follows: some of these portable rock art pieces contain micro-etchings that can easily be confused with natural lines, layers or patterns in rocks. Furthermore, the idea that one is just “seeing faces in rocks,” just like one might see animals in cloud forms or shadows that resemble something, is countered by the suggestion that ancient people might have had reasons to manipulate these rocks in a way that contemporary society – with academic concepts of archeology, anthropology and art history – might simply not understand, especially coming from a time period where written language may not have accompanied the making of these these things? In other words, how do we know what’s going through the mind of a person who hunts woolly mammoths by day and sits around the fire at night? I’m not suggesting this is the case for any of these found stones, but am trying to open my mind to what might be, since I honestly don’t know. Speaking of woolly mammoths, I read something that explained that the hunters would steer them into trap pits, and after using as much of the killed animal as they wanted or needed, they arranged the bones in deliberate ways that suggests certain rites or rituals. If I can wrap my head around that idea, that certainly one could possibly accept the idea of the same people making small marks in stones that also might relate to rites and rituals.

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Below is an example of portable rock art sent to me by people who saw my Artsology Blog coverage of rock art and face effigies. As you can see on the second photo, Faces in the Stone even included some drawings to help explain how he was interpreting the visuals of this stone. Whether you agree or disagree with what he’s seeing – and I’m not passing judgment either for or against what he’s seeing – I respect the passion and attention to detail and the search for understanding.

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