Assyrian Crow Steps
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VAN HOEK, M. 2004. The stepped-fret motif in American rock art: an attempt at tracing origin and meaning. THE ARTIFACT. Vol. 42. pp. 75 - 91. El Paso Archaeological Society. El Paso, Texas. | Maarten van Hoek - Academia.edu
https://www.academia.edu/20770845/VAN_HOEK_M._2004._The_stepped-fret_motif_in_American_rock_art_an_attempt_at_tracing_origin_and_meaning._THE_ARTIFACT._Vol._42._pp._75_-_91._El_Paso_Archaeological_Society._El_Paso_Texas
The Artifact Volume 42, 2004
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THE STEPPED FRET MOTIF IN AMERICAN ROCK-ART:AN ATTEMPT AT TRACING ORIGIN AND MEANING
MAARTEN VAN HOEKINTRODUCTION
Like every inhabited continent, the Americas abound in prehistoric rock-art, that is,image making on natural rock surfaces, either by removing surface bits of the rockin order to create petroglyphs, or by applying material onto the rock surface, thus creating rock-paintings.Understandably, the iconography of distant rock-art areas will often be completelydifferent. However, from the natural or cultural context or from certainuniversalities of the human psychology and nervous system an ‘identical’ imagemay emerge independently in two distant areas. Then we speak of paralleldevelopment. On the other hand, such an image may equally be introduced to anarea from a distant source, in which case we speak of diffusion, even if themetaphorical contents of the image changes over time.Separated by roughly 9,000 km of rugged mountain chains and harsh deserts, tworock art regions, the Southwest of the USA and the south of Bolivia, prove to havenumerous images of stepped fret patterns. I will investigate whether the occurrenceof the stepped fret pattern in these areas is a matter of parallel development ordiffusion. Further, I will consider whether a universal meaning underlies thepattern, despite the fact that the symbolism assigned to the motif appears to bedissimilar on the two continents.
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text jammed up on android paisting...This 'investigation' like Kathyrn Devereux's goal, see previous post...Van Hoekin too has extensive web site, but with motifs from all over the world, rather than just the Americas...and here, and HERE, for the first time, I find notation of the Nabatean Crow Step side by side with step fret, Inca warrior step tunic in particular, though author doesnt seem to have seen those...
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TRACCE » Long Distance Diffusion of Rock Art Motifs in the Americas
http://www.rupestre.net/tracce/?p=12805
The Stepped Fret
To demonstrate possible inconsistencies between cultural expressions and the rock art repertoire of an area I will now briefly focus on an area in Asia. Interestingly, stepped frets are a most prominent feature in the architectural art of many rock-cut tombs of Madain Saleh in the Arabian Peninsula. Towering over the impressive entrance of several tombs are truly huge, three-dimensional examples of a double unit stepped fret. Such stepped frets – called Assyrian Crow Steps – actually consist of one ‘negative’ (recessed), inverted (apex-down) double-unit stepped fret that is flanked on each side by a ‘positive’ (projecting) single stepped fret. Despite the overwhelming impression of those stepped frets on those gigantic Nabatean tombs in Saudi Arabia, I do not know of examples of the Stepped Fret in the rock art of the Arabian Peninsula (they might exist, though).
TRACCE » Long Distance Diffusion of Rock Art Motifs in the Americas
http://www.rupestre.net/tracce/?p=12805
The Stepped Fret
To demonstrate possible inconsistencies between cultural expressions and the rock art repertoire of an area I will now briefly focus on an area in Asia. Interestingly, stepped frets are a most prominent feature in the architectural art of many rock-cut tombs of Madain Saleh in the Arabian Peninsula. Towering over the impressive entrance of several tombs are truly huge, three-dimensional examples of a double unit stepped fret. Such stepped frets – called Assyrian Crow Steps – actually consist of one ‘negative’ (recessed), inverted (apex-down) double-unit stepped fret that is flanked on each side by a ‘positive’ (projecting) single stepped fret. Despite the overwhelming impression of those stepped frets on those gigantic Nabatean tombs in Saudi Arabia, I do not know of examples of the Stepped Fret in the rock art of the Arabian Peninsula (they might exist, though).
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So, I dont know how many scholars are on to step frets with web pages and books...I can list a half dozen or so...it may be part of the schooling of every archaeologist...but then, there is another 'before and after'...before google images and after google images...before google images one had to run around to museums and such to photograph figures/motifs...now they are on the web, more being added everyday, even the black market ones...so, students and professors are in a new research era, my research area!...I happened on U S Customs page that listed desciptions of things to look for being smuggled, all in wording maybe the best to use...jargon customs agents can follow!...Game on soon...go for a snack at eatery with tv and watch, or listen on Silver's, my jeep, radio...bbk...bk...
(lost some text here...game report...it was in seventh or so...Fletcher's and Trout's heroics...lots of stuff, gone...:(...what happened I think is I had two editable pages open, and left off the one ahead and started posting to the one behind...then finishing, I deleted all the open pages, save my blog, the page I thought in front...hmmph!...if I think awhile, I'll get some of this back...for tomorrow))
well, Van Hoek isn't in Devereux's references, near as I can tell...looked by combining their names in search...I suspect the scholars simply don't know of one another's efforts!...no one among the Mysterions seems to have ever heared of Sir Flanders Petrie....oh...on that note a note I was searching: Petrie Peru Ruins...brb...well, Petrie lived until 1933, so surely he knew of Mexico and Peru...Machu Pichu...all those ruins with Pyramids, Polygonal walls...he must have put forth an opinion...he wrote a lot of books...Mariners make out...to bottom of ninth...Petrie is a curio
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Petrie remains a controversial figure for his pro-eugenics views and opinions on other social topics, which spilled over into his disputes with the British Museum's Egyptology expert, E. A. Wallis Budge. Budge's contention that the religion of the Egyptians was essentially identical to the religions of the people of northeastern and central Africa was regarded by his colleagues as impossible, since all but a few followed Petrie in his contention that the culture of Ancient Egypt was derived from an invading Caucasoid "Dynastic Race" which had conquered Egypt in late prehistory and introduced the Pharaonic culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_Petrie#Archaeology_career
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Lucroi long fly out...first ball hitting...Calhoun up...the Mysterions on youtube have an undertone of eugenics not unlike Petrie's...it shows in the comment trolls comments too...in fact, it shows in comment threads all over about nearly everything...I don't know if bots do this or what...a lot of busy keyboard warriors promoting the Master Race...sometimes I find something neat, then look up, and smack my head, 'oh, it's that guy again!'...or some look alike of such...keyboard sorts have slim identities...empty youtube channels, or just a couple playlists...line drive for the third out...Mariners 5-3...just the worst...'why didn't Petrie come to dig in America?'...a question for tomorrowmorrow!!!
(lost some text here...game report...it was in seventh or so...Fletcher's and Trout's heroics...lots of stuff, gone...:(...what happened I think is I had two editable pages open, and left off the one ahead and started posting to the one behind...then finishing, I deleted all the open pages, save my blog, the page I thought in front...hmmph!...if I think awhile, I'll get some of this back...for tomorrow))
well, Van Hoek isn't in Devereux's references, near as I can tell...looked by combining their names in search...I suspect the scholars simply don't know of one another's efforts!...no one among the Mysterions seems to have ever heared of Sir Flanders Petrie....oh...on that note a note I was searching: Petrie Peru Ruins...brb...well, Petrie lived until 1933, so surely he knew of Mexico and Peru...Machu Pichu...all those ruins with Pyramids, Polygonal walls...he must have put forth an opinion...he wrote a lot of books...Mariners make out...to bottom of ninth...Petrie is a curio
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Petrie remains a controversial figure for his pro-eugenics views and opinions on other social topics, which spilled over into his disputes with the British Museum's Egyptology expert, E. A. Wallis Budge. Budge's contention that the religion of the Egyptians was essentially identical to the religions of the people of northeastern and central Africa was regarded by his colleagues as impossible, since all but a few followed Petrie in his contention that the culture of Ancient Egypt was derived from an invading Caucasoid "Dynastic Race" which had conquered Egypt in late prehistory and introduced the Pharaonic culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_Petrie#Archaeology_career
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Lucroi long fly out...first ball hitting...Calhoun up...the Mysterions on youtube have an undertone of eugenics not unlike Petrie's...it shows in the comment trolls comments too...in fact, it shows in comment threads all over about nearly everything...I don't know if bots do this or what...a lot of busy keyboard warriors promoting the Master Race...sometimes I find something neat, then look up, and smack my head, 'oh, it's that guy again!'...or some look alike of such...keyboard sorts have slim identities...empty youtube channels, or just a couple playlists...line drive for the third out...Mariners 5-3...just the worst...'why didn't Petrie come to dig in America?'...a question for tomorrowmorrow!!!
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