[BenLurkin]

Compiled DStretch images that show the rock art drawings in their entirety. From left to right, notice the two quadrupeds, the tall person, the supplicating person and the snakelike figure. The style of these images matches other Fremont culture rock-art paintings in the region. Credit: Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, Paul Bahn and Marvin Rowe, "The death of a pterodactyl," Antiquity, Volume 89, p 872-884, 2015, Copyright Antiquity Publications Ltd., published by Cambridge University Press, reproduced with permission

[circlecity]

Where’s the “I’m not saying it was aliens....but...” guy?

[BenLurkin]

[dware]

it messes up the chemistry of the rock, probably, and it just doesn't disappear,"

Inspires confidence, probably.

[dware]

PinGGG!

[dfwgator]

“A crummy commercial?”

[ETL]

[left that other site]

The quadrup[eds are sheep.
The snakelike figure is the government.
The supplicating figure is the obsequious citizen that does whatever he is told.
The Tall Figure holding a printout of Hillary’s emails.
The snakelike figure is attempting to bite the tall figures azz.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A sheep?

[USNBandit]

It’s obvious that this is a depiction of the aftermath of an ancient person consuming spicy food. That is flame shooting out of his butt and all his animals are scattering. The animal on the right didn’t escape and was caught up in the conflagration.

[GoneSalt]

I’d have to stick with the shamanic experience put on canvas crowd.

I’ve gone down that road and my guess is the humanized animals are the shaman joined with the animal spirit ally and the small attendant animals are other animal allies/helper spirits.

Kind of like “earth angels” in both a guardian angel and spiritual guide type context. If the shaman was about to do a great work or fight a spiritual battle he would call on and assume the form of his strongest or most appropriate ally, and other helpers he had walked, dreamed and danced with would continue to be his posse, but of lesser influence in his life at that point in time.

[ETL]

After a man named John Simonson drew an outline around the paintings with chalk, he announced that the image looked like "a weird bird."
The above drawing is one interpretation of the rock painting in Utah.

http://www.livescience.com/51892-photos-utah-rock-art.html

[Constitution Day]

[squarebarb]

Good Lord I had my laugh for this morning at the various interpretations! Thanks!

But here’s my guess, in all seriousness;

Tall figure with the enlongated body is very common in native American rock art all thru the continent and is probably the shaman. Same-same in Canada, south America.

goatish creatures on left are male and female cervids of some kind, probably bighorn sheep.

Big-headed critter biting shaman’s butt is probably the Underwater Monster, also common in myth throughout North America, in Algonkian languages called Misshepishou, much feared. Okay it’s desert country but the creature seems to have some kind of underwater coursing paths or activities. Very fearsome. Half snake, half feline of some kind.

Supplicating figure could be playing piano for all I know. No guesses on this one.

Shaman figure — tail -— aside from relieving himself from prehistoric burritos, looks like his lower half is hoofed animal. shaman shape-changer.

And so that’s my contribution to FR for the day.

[wildbill]

It appears to me that the animal figures on the left are drawn in a pretty realistic style and are identifiable.

The so-called supplicating person may be a copy of the tall person in a reverse pose since they are both bending over with arms outstretched.

The thing that bugs me, however, is that the animals are realistic, right down to the stance of the legs, horns, etc while the humanoids are not realistic at all in terms of torso and arm/leg proportions. Not to mention the onion shaped head with holes for eyes and no mouth or nose on the taller figure.

In contrast with the realistic animals, those figures aren’t done very well as representative of humans. One might almost think they look like one of the ‘greys’, eh?

[editor-surveyor]

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Looks like they have flunked their Rorschach test!
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[x]

From the title, I was expecting an article about some rock fan who finally figured out what heavy metal album covers were trying to say, but I guess archaeology is also interesting.

[SkyDancer]

Looks like a fuzzy bigfoot about to be bit on the butt by a snake while the bigfoot thing is chasing antelope that were running away from a wolf. See. easy. nothing to it.

[Fresh Wind]

Paleoporn?