Sentence examples for rock drawings from inspiring English sources

He dabbled in the associated discipline of archaeology and discovered a series of rock drawings.

The lake, 156 square miles, will submerge a village, Luz, and hundreds of Stone Age rock drawings.

The basic techniques of two-dimensional art drawing and painting are exemplified in Upper Egyptian rock drawings and in the painted tomb at Hierakonpolis, now lost.

Scenes of animals, boats, and hunting (the common subjects of rock drawings) were more finely executed in paint in the tomb, and additional themes, probably of conquest, presaged those found in dynastic art.

Mr. Bardon encouraged tribal artists of the desert peoples of central Australia to transfer their vivid images of ancestral times from sand and rock drawings and body decoration to paintings in acrylics on hardboard and canvas, thus making them permanent and portable.

Prehistoric rock drawings depict hippopotamuses, giraffes, elephants, hartebeests, and foxes.

But even the spelling-bee-averse will relish this edifying book, with its easy pace and "Schoolhouse Rock!"-like drawings.

This extreme conservatism and adherence to accuracy can also be seen in rock paintings, drawings and engravings, which were often used to support oral legends, says Les Bursill, an anthropologist and member of Sydney's Dharawal people.

There are also numerous rock art drawings at the head of the falls.

Rock art includes pictographs (drawings or paintings), petroglyphs (carvings or inscriptions), engravings (incised motifs), petroforms (rocks laid out in patterns), and geoglyphs (ground drawings).

"Ab Ex New York: Rock Paper Scissors" juxtaposes drawings, prints and objects by a dozen or so sculptors, including Bourgeois, Nevelson and also David Hare, Herbert Ferber, Isamu Noguchi and Richard Lippold.