Rock Art - The Enduring Mystery
Rupestrian Edventures - Glyphics Road Trips!
Wanderland World Rock Art Destinations - Introduction
Petroglyphs, pictographs, geoglyphs, arborglyphs, even grafitti are ancient systems of communication charged with mystery and intention. These graven images exist by the millions across our planet's rocky outcrops. Wanderland wants to be your ambassador to these primordial messages and to help you find what they have to say to you. Schaafsma's Artifacts of Former Cognitive Universes.
We want you to explore with us, and help us to protect, rock art where ever it is found. Let’s find out why these places are worth saving.
Our World Rock Art Adventures feature private preserves, national parks, UNESCO Natural and Cultural Heritage Sites, and many roadside surprises.
Wanderland's professional interpreters will lead you to amazing Rock Art sites and explain their significance.
As archaeology educators we will help to understand and interpret the relevant historical contexts of the sites you visit. You will learn the science of Rock Art Revelation
Petroglyphs, Pictographs, Geoglyphs, Arborglyphs, and Muralism
The myriad rocky outcrops of varnished sandstone, basalt and granite in the Southwestern US and Northern Mexico are home to an amazing variety of rock art styles and images. These are timeless communications from the deep past. Ancient Art. Stories.
We offer archaeology enthusiasts and rock art devotees a unique opportunity to visit and learn from the protected rupestria of this vast province. Our instructors are scientists who study rock art and also Native partners who share with us the glyphs' role in society.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of individual motifs and thousands of sites tucked into the front and back-country. Too many of these sites have not been afforded any protection whatsoever, or enjoy only scant protection.
This program will feature only sites that have been gifted a level of protection. We are not giving up any carefully guarded archeological treasures. To be sure, we will journey well off the beaten track, we are offering you access to the little known but well protected gems of our archeological heritage.
We want you to better understand these ancient symbols and the information they contain. Biogeography, agriculture, hunting, visual ecology, and ritual are fundamental pieces of the puzzle.
