Pictographs and Petroglyphs
According to Native American friends of mine, at least some of the
pictograph and petroglyph characters were creatures envisioned by
participants during sacred ceremonies which usually involved eating,
smoking, drinking or snorting hallucinogens. Many Native American
cultures of the past from North, Central and South America - as well as in
other parts of the world - used psychoactive substances and there are those
who use them today as well. Most often these are peyote, mushrooms
(psilocybin) or jimson weed though other substances are also used. I’ve
seen many pictographs (pictures painted on walls) and petroglyphs
(pictures chipped into rock) in the southwest since I moved to NM 36 yrs
ago and they include figures that look like space-suited aliens, spacecraft,
giraffes (an animal not known to ever have existed in the Americas),
people with square heads or crescent heads and fantastic flying creatures
that run the gamut from harpies (birds with human female heads) to
pterosaurs and just about everything in between. Art on cave or canyon
walls or rocks is not proof that dinosaurs existed any more than it proves
space aliens visited them, just that those who painted those figures were
on some righteously awesome trips to be able to visualize such things. I
reiterate the point that all the dinosaur bones found date to the age of the
dinosaurs. None of more recent vintage have ever been found. Even if our
present means of dating doesn’t yield perfectly accurate to-the-moment-
of-death results, the margin of error is off by a few thousand years at most,
not tens of millions of years. I am all for keeping an open mind and
exploring other ideas as long as they are plausible but I cannot in all
seriousness entertain the notion that dinosaurs survived the extinction
event then either hid out somewhere for 65 million years or continued to
reproduce in hiding for all that time only to reappear in Biblical or Mayan
times all without leaving any bones as tangible evidence.
pictograph and petroglyph characters were creatures envisioned by
participants during sacred ceremonies which usually involved eating,
smoking, drinking or snorting hallucinogens. Many Native American
cultures of the past from North, Central and South America - as well as in
other parts of the world - used psychoactive substances and there are those
who use them today as well. Most often these are peyote, mushrooms
(psilocybin) or jimson weed though other substances are also used. I’ve
seen many pictographs (pictures painted on walls) and petroglyphs
(pictures chipped into rock) in the southwest since I moved to NM 36 yrs
ago and they include figures that look like space-suited aliens, spacecraft,
giraffes (an animal not known to ever have existed in the Americas),
people with square heads or crescent heads and fantastic flying creatures
that run the gamut from harpies (birds with human female heads) to
pterosaurs and just about everything in between. Art on cave or canyon
walls or rocks is not proof that dinosaurs existed any more than it proves
space aliens visited them, just that those who painted those figures were
on some righteously awesome trips to be able to visualize such things. I
reiterate the point that all the dinosaur bones found date to the age of the
dinosaurs. None of more recent vintage have ever been found. Even if our
present means of dating doesn’t yield perfectly accurate to-the-moment-
of-death results, the margin of error is off by a few thousand years at most,
not tens of millions of years. I am all for keeping an open mind and
exploring other ideas as long as they are plausible but I cannot in all
seriousness entertain the notion that dinosaurs survived the extinction
event then either hid out somewhere for 65 million years or continued to
reproduce in hiding for all that time only to reappear in Biblical or Mayan
times all without leaving any bones as tangible evidence.
