I see Rock People and Pareidolia

Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon, wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists. Mainstream archaeologists have generally explained away portable rock art as being naturally formed by nature and the images are a result of pareidolia. This recently updated article covers pareidolia and portable rock art. https://www.rockartmuseum.com/i-see-rock-people/

Pareidolia doesn't go far enough to explain what i see. It is a convenient cop out for the long sighted 'experts'.

It doesn't begin to explain the similarities in rock art across my finds...

See some faces? Is it Pareidolia?????

Hmm, i think not! I can clearly see eyes, face, nose and ears



Reverse side of stone.


To know our ancient ancestors decorated cave walls but to say publicly they didn't decorate smaller rocks or stones is frankly ridiculous.

These so called experts are charlatans who betray their very existence with their lack of knowledge and over inflated self worth.

The problem is, we decorated caves to represent or mirror our physical environment. The scholars and their cohorts like us only to believe we co-existed with Buffalo and Antelope!

They do not like the difficult questions that arise due to the content seen in smaller rocks and stones.

Nice Rock!

Spot on Anil, I will write something more applicable to pareidolia at some point, the word is nonsensical and has no intelligent usage in language apart from those who hallucinate, and even then whos to say what you can see or cannot? Nobody!

I agree that the term pareidolia is overused and abused in relation to portable rock art. However it's the most common term used by the Nay Sayers to dismiss the validity of portable rock art, necessitating the need to address it. I found the portable rock art shown below in NB Canada. It's 3 inches high with many faces. So many in fact that they could hardly be considered a result of pareidolia, but instead created by a skilled prehistoric artisan.

The question: How could prehistoric man carve such amazing portable rock art? Should be: Why have we lost that ability today? Prehistoric man lived in a completely different world than we now live in.  Superior eyesight was necessary for survival in a world of mega sized animals, which are either extinct or 2 to 10 times physically smaller today. Megafauna was feared and respected as shown in their artwork. Animal and human hybrids depicted in rock art was quite common.

Today's world of junk food and computer screen eyestrain, has resulted in poor eyesight. In our electronic 2D world, most of us have lost the 3D spatial cognitive abilities necessary to create this type artwork, without the aide of a computer.

Trying to decipher effigies, with today's biases and the lack of fully understanding prehistoric environments, is a difficult and sometimes futile effort. I tend not to try to define what effigies are represented in portable rock art, unless they are very obvious.

This is a rock with many faces

Don't see how these can be just rock! Has to be made by human hands when I find something like this one...20 plus pics of animals and a cave scene and a valley campsite scene

This radish one is similar to the one I have. Someone said something about THE GREEN MAN...

I picked up this from the woods across the road from my house

Up late tonight bc my on again off again BF is gone again! So I thought I would dig out this bag of cast off he gave me a couple of weeks ago...just now looking inside. This is what I found.

Wanted to show u the other side of this

Found these also

I love looking at pictures of people's finds from all round the world. It's amazing how similar to my own finds considering the distance from me in England.

Oh wow that is some distance. I didn't find these tho. He doesn't really believe in the rock art effigy sorta thing. So he didn't want them. In the first 2 pics there r several cool ones. I've only got a lamp on in here so the pics r on the poor side..

Tell me about it.
I have bad light in my home so dark and it's allways raining