Ancient rock art baffles experts[UK]

Telegraph ^ | 15 Jan 2009 | Matt Ford

[Renfield]

I’ve been to that petroglyph.

[BenLurkin]

The explanation for the prevalence of spiral designs is simple: They are easy to execute.

No surprise that different people at different places used them for decoration — before they developed more complex designs.

[muawiyah]

BTW, you and I are "Cro-magnon Man" for the most part. They are the first known Eur-Asian modern humans. Jet planes and atom bombs also date from Cro-magnon Man as it turns out.

Note, those are not ROCK PAINTINGS, the material is CARVED into the rock, just like the same symbols are carved into the rock on some of the background stuff in things you've posted. This stuff is several thousand years older.

I think you may not realize how widely traveled ancient people could be when they didn't have massive ice fields in their way.

Did you notice the "crop circle" formations for some of 'em?

[gleeaikin]

Thanks for the images. Do you have date on the Tucson carvings? Someone suggests that these might be Cro-Magnon. While we are probably descended in a significant degree from CM, CM culture is considered to be 20 to 30,000 years old. These kind of spirals were showing up in Britain a lot later than that.

[Fred Nerks]

No, can’t help with dating, sorry. There are several more examples of petroglyph spirals at the link in my comment.