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Geo's Story Stones: Classroom Ideas and Applications

Rock artists who pounded petroglyphs or painted pictographs onto boulders, cliffs and cave walls were really storytellers. Their desire to communicate specific aspects of their lives is clear by the images they left behind. Their pictures included stories of family life, animals, hunting, travels, weather and worship. Both special events and everyday activities are memorialized in stone and show the people's intimate relationship with nature.
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