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Ancient rock engraving
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petroglyph
Word definitions for petroglyph in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Petroglyph may refer to: Petroglyphs , Rock art depicting pictograms and logograms . Petroglyph Games , a real-time strategy games development studio. Petroglyphs Provincial Park , a provincial park near Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Petroglyph Provincial ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1870, from French pétroglyphe , from Greek petra "rock" (see petrous ) + glyphe "carving" (see glyph ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context archaeology English) A rock carving, especially one made in prehistoric times.
Usage examples of petroglyph.
Partway down, he paused to adjust his pack, brush off moisture and look sideways and back in at the petroglyph of a life-sized antelope.
Phil Thornburg, a petroglyph expert in Victoria, Canada, said recently.
Terry Fletcher felt after seeing that ancient petroglyph of the dancing flute player, Kokopelli, after seeing it painted on neckties and glazed on dog-food bowls.
When Lilly came to, she was on the ground beside the boulder with the super-cool petroglyph of a panther.
All she had to do was find the rock with the petroglyphs and go back through them to her apartment.
She climbed the path as it wound higher and higher up the mountain, but she knew within minutes that she had no idea where the petroglyphs were.
Jordan said, spend her weekends searching for the petroglyphs that would show her the opening in the rock.
If you were dead, who would help me find the petroglyphs so I can get back to the man I love?
After the five Ms left yesterday morning, Kady was so full of righteous indignation that she had been determined to find the petroglyphs and get out of this time period forever.
Ruth about the petroglyphs, and Ruth had said that everyone in Legend knew where they were.
She was fairly sure that she could find the petroglyphs by herself, and when she did, she knew that she would find the doorway.
When she finally reached the sheer rock face, she had to pull aside scraggly vines to see the petroglyphs, now not as clear as they had been many years before, but she could still see them.
When they reached the rocks with the petroglyphs, there was the opening back into the Legend of the twentieth century.
He stopped in front of the three circular petroglyphs, and as he stared, the light beaming through the hole in the wall behind him coalesced into the shape of two daggers.
Unfortunately the petroglyphs were just as commercially valuable as gold .