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The Origin of Petroglyphs--Recordings of a Catastrophic Aurora in
Human Prehistory?

D.A. Scott1 and A. L. Peratt

Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 USA

Petroglyphs are images created on rock by means of carving or
`pecking' the outer surface to expose the surface underneath. They are
found on all continents except Antarctica. The purpose of this paper
is an attempt to explain how in man's prehistory recordings of
high-energy-density phenomena (some not experimentally recorded until
the last few years) could have been carved on rock in an accurate,
systematic, and apparently temporally accurate fashion. Based on the
compilation and analysis of the order of 50,000 digitally recorded
petroglyphs, we have identified several dozen general categories of
instabilities whose morphology is that of a highly nonlinear pinched
plasma column generally associated with multi-mega-ampere Z-pinch
experiments. We shall present the direct comparison of the temporal
evolution of experimental instabilities with petroglyphs, indicating
that nearly all archaic carvings match the phenomena that might be
produced in an intense and long-lasting aurora. One category is
illustrated below

This work was partially supported for the University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia. We are indebted
to Prof. William S-Y. Wang for calling our attention to a connection
between archaic petroglyphs and the Chinese Language. 1. University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA USA ICOPS2003 International Conference on
Plasma Science

International Conference on Plasma Science June 2-5, 2003 Jeju, Korea

D. A. Scott and A.L. Peratt, 'The origin of petroglyphs- Recordings of
a catastrophic aurora in human prehistory?

IEEE Int. Conf. Plasma Sci., Jeju, Korea,p.143, 2003.

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