Sunday, June 28, 2009

Dinosaur Petroglyphs



Mysterious Anomalies: Walking With Dinosaurs (and Humans)?

The most substantial piece of evidence that dinosaurs once lived along side humankind are prehistoric petroglyphs and paintings found throughout the world that clearly resemble the appearance of various dinosaurs. For example, one of these petroglyphs in particular can be found at Natural Bridges, National Monument Utah. Its creation is attributed to the Anasazi Indians who lived in the region approximately between the fifth and fourteenth centuries. It is apparent that the Anasazi Indians are representing a dinosaur, specifically a Brontosaurus (now referred to as Apatosaurus). However, we seem to forget that the species Brontosaurus excelsus was not discovered until 1879, hundreds of years after the creation of this petroglyph. Thus, it seems nearly impossible that a group of ancient Indians would accurately depict a dinosaur without ever making any contact. Ultimately, we are left with three options: Either the Anasazi Indians were sophisticated archeologists, capable of mind-traveling into the past, or simply put, they coexisted along side at least one dinosaur species at some point in history. At this point, the later is currently the most rational explanation.


Dinosaur Petroglyph Replica

This is a 1:1 scale reproduction of a petroglyph (rock art) that was originally discovered in 1879 in the Havasupai Canyon in Arizona. In 1924, a scientific expedition was sent to the canyon to document the artifacts and petroglyphs left behind by the Native Americans.

The director of that expedition, Samuel Hubbard, said the following about the above petroglyph, "The fact that some prehistoric man made a pictograph of a dinosaur on the walls of this canyon upsets completely all of our theories regarding the antiquity of man. Facts are stubborn and immutable things. If theories do not square with the facts then the theories must change, the facts remain." (Discoveries Relating to Prehistoric Man by the Doheny Scientific Expedition in the Hava Supai Canyon Northern Arizona, Oakland Museum, Oakland California, October and November 1924, p. 5)

There is a very heavy desert varnish on this petroglyph, which authenticates its antiquity and thus its authenticity. This is not a modern forgery.


Ancient Dinosaur Depictions.

There are stories of a plesiosaur-like creature seen in Queensland, Australia. Both aboriginal peoples around Lake Galilee and tribes farther up to the north tell of a long-necked animal with a large body and flippers. "Elders of the Kuku Yalanji aboriginal tribe of Far North Queensland, Australia, relate stories of Yarru (or Yarrba), a creature which used to inhabit rain forest water holes. The painting [left] depicts a creature with features remarkably similar to a plesiosaur. It even shows an outline of the gastro-intestinal tract, indicating that these animals had been hunted and butchered." (CEN Technical Journal, Vol.12, No. 3, 1998, p. 345.)

7 comments:

Jeffery Keown said...

Protip: The Flintstones is not a documentary. It is a cartoon.

Please learn to tell the difference.

OilIsMastery said...

The Anasazi and the Kuku Yalanji don't live in the town of Bedrock. Welcome to planet Earth.

DanielW said...

Indeed not.
There have been legends of Dinosauresque creatures from across the globe from throughout the ages.

Some have had mystical abilities ascribed to them. Fire breathing, fortune-telling, speech...
Others a bloodthirsty intelligence.

Tribes describing beings like that as real, not "of the Dreaming" or "in the time of my forefathers".
Something they expected to encounter in their everyday lives.

Real?
Imagined?
Sadly we have a few facts that point in both directions.

john bailo said...

The Flintstones is not a documentary.

Perhaps the appeal of The Flintstones is that somewhere deep down, we understand...it is...

OilIsMastery said...

Hi Daniel.

Welcome.

OilIsMastery said...

John,

I replied to your comment in the flute post....=)

Anonymous said...

Dinosaur fossils have been eroding out of the ground and found for millenia and the first real record of such was by the Ancient Chinese who thought they were "Dragon Bones" and as such they grounded up their bones to make medicine. I betcha that's where those markings are from. We didn't really know what they were until the 19th Century A.D.