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Photo posted by Igor Doncov in the Man & Nature gallery on 12/10/17 at 4:08 pm EST
Registered on 11/22/14, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments
Post last edited by Donna Erhardt on 12/22/17 at 09:06 am EST

Many rocks of Baja California are covered with paintings of precolumbian art, usually done in red and black. Many are undocumented and are found by stumbling over them. There have been discussions what they represent. Many believe these are spiritual in nature, depicting shamans. I cropped mine to make it a story.

Canon PowerShop A630, 1/80 sec, f/3.2, ISO 80

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Comment posted by Kathy Barnhart on 12/10/17 at 6:52 pm EST    
Registered on 11/11/11, 404 Posts, 1639 Comments

Wow, what a fantastic mix of rock and painting. It's fun to speculate on the story, like the inclusion of the big bump in the person's belly and the six-fingered hand of the main character. I like the way the images are formed, and the colors make this very lively. I might clone out the lines in the bottom right corner as it looks like the artist's initials partially cut out!

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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on 12/10/17 at 7:34 pm EST    
Registered on 11/22/14, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments
Comment last edited by Igor Doncov on 12/10/17 at 7:43 pm EST

Found it!  It's the horns of the deer painted just below. 

BTW, the round object near the stomach is not part of the painting. It's a depression in the surface of the wall. This is not a flat surface,

Six fingered hands are very common in paintings in the area. It's been suggested that this indicates that these people were not mere mortals,. They were 'more' than the rest of us.

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Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on 12/10/17 at 7:55 pm EST    
Registered on 09/17/10, 304 Posts, 3507 Comments

Really like the 3-D feel and texture in this, especially in the large version.  Wht a great find.

  
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Newmarket, NH

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on 12/11/17 at 6:13 pm EST    
Registered on 11/19/03, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments

Nice artistic take on the ancient art. Great find and very cool!

  
Harley Goldman
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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on 12/11/17 at 7:49 pm EST    
Registered on 02/01/04, 752 Posts, 14140 Comments

Wonderful job photographing and processing this. Nice work Igor! Very interesting to see. Nick

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on 12/16/17 at 8:35 pm EST    
Registered on 09/27/06, 636 Posts, 10682 Comments

Really like how you've presented this example of art, the underlying rock textures and colour making it so tactile.

    
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