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Article: Why buy Petroglyph Replicas? Why not get the originals? By: Donald Austin www.sandcarveddesigns.com |
| Prehistoric Native Americans
made stone tools and clay pottery out of
necessity, they needed to
make these items to accomplish their everyday tasks. You
can buy prehistoric pottery and you can buy prehistoric stone tools.
If you don't want to personally own these items you can at least go to a museum and
see them. On the other hand, rock art petroglyphs and pictographs were not
made out of necessity. They were made because their creators wanted to
make them. They made them for religious, ceremonial and ritual purposes;
they made them for aesthetics, for good luck, magic, to record events and for purposes we may never
know. By nature of their manufacture, most petroglyphs were carved on huge unmovable boulders. To remove them is not only unethical, but would most likely ruin the image. Either way, removing or attempting to remove petroglyphs means a rock art site, a part of our collective human past, is destroyed forever, and that is a great loss for all of us. For the same reasons you can't have the original petroglyph in your home you can't go to a museum and see an original either, not unless it was salvaged from a construction project and brought to the museum for preservation. The petroglyph replicas made by Sand Carved Designs are carved into slate and are easily hung on a wall or displayed on a shelf or desk. They are carved as close as possible to the original image. In some cases a link to a picture of the original is provided so you can compare for yourself. You can safely own these replicas and proudly display them as southwestern art in your home or office. You can enjoy the images carved in stone, cool to the touch, and feel a link between yourself and the people who carved them into canyon walls centuries ago without destroying the original. For whatever reason these images were first carved into stone the people who made them apparently thought it was a good idea because they continued to carve more petroglyphs for thousands of years. Maybe the images they carved brought good luck, perhaps they brought assistance from the spirit world, or improved one's health. And now a petroglyph replica would be right for you as well! Our children are taught little to nothing about rock art in school. That is part of the reason why rock art is vandalized and defaced; generations of people simply have no idea what rock art is. How sad that something so beautiful is so easily ruined... especially since just having an informed public would go far in protecting the sites. When your friends, your family and your grandchildren see your unique petroglyphs, it will present you with a wonderful opportunity to connect their 'present' with a piece of the 'past'... and hopefully to help save a prehistoric site! |
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