rock carving
Carved boulder art
Rock carving is the practice of incising, pecking, or engraving images and symbols into natural rock surfaces.
The term covers both ancient petroglyphs—prehistoric rock carvings found throughout the American Southwest—and the activity itself.
Distinguished from rock painting, which adds pigment rather than removing material.
- petroglyphCarved image on stone
- chiselEdged carving implement
- stoneSolid earth fragment
- ancientVery old indeed
- ancient artEarly civilization's creative output
hand print · inscription · hammer · granite · symbol · prehistoric · monument · hieroglyph · etching · relief · sandstone · canyon wall · cave · ritual · indigenous · weathered · sacred · sacred site
- cave artcave painting, cave paintings, Lascaux, Altamira, hand stencils
- inscriptionsinscription, epitaph, ancient inscriptions, stone inscriptions, gravestone
- Norse artifactsrunestone, Viking ships, viking axe, viking helmet, Thor's hammer
- reliefsbas-relief, high relief, low relief, sunken relief, bas relief
- Rock-Cut Sitescave temples, Buddhist caves, grottos, grottoes, grotto
- Tibetan craftsthangka, prayer wheel, prayer wheels, prayer flag, prayer flags
rock carvingrock painting
Art on stone surfaces
cave painting · mural · fresco · painting · pictograph
rock carvingfigurine
Small ornamental sculpture
amulet · statuette · jewelry · ivory carving · medallion
rock carvingsand art
Designs in granules
ice sculpture · chalk drawing · land art · installation art · performance art
rock, carving, rocks, rocked, rocking, rocker, rocky, rockier, rockiest