cupules

The oldest known rock art is a 300,000-year-old panel of small chipped cups, called cupules, found in India.

Durangoherald.com 2009

Here is a picture of my colleague Bryon Bass next to a rock covered with cupules.

Archive 2005-10-01 2005

Data from other tribes here links cupules to other fertility rites.

Cupules and Geophagy 2005

Kevin Callahan, an archaeologist from Minnesota, presented a paper at the Society for American Archaeology meetings a few years ago that tied California cupules to a world-wide phenomenon that apparently has great time depth.

Archive 2005-10-01 2005

Kevin Callahan, an archaeologist from Minnesota, presented a paper at the Society for American Archaeology meetings a few years ago that tied California cupules to a world-wide phenomenon that apparently has great time depth.

Cupules and Geophagy 2005

Data from other tribes here links cupules to other fertility rites.

Archive 2005-10-01 2005

In this view some cupules were “functional” in the sense that they were made to grind and obtain rock powder.

Cupules and Geophagy 2005

In this view some cupules were “functional” in the sense that they were made to grind and obtain rock powder.

Archive 2005-10-01 2005

Here is a picture of my colleague Bryon Bass next to a rock covered with cupules.

Cupules and Geophagy 2005

There is even a perforated object like the slate crooks of M. Cartailhac, from Portugal, but rather more like the silhouette of a bird, {121a} and there are decorative mace-heads in soft stone. {121b} Some of the prehistoric figurines of human beings from Egypt are studded with "cups," _cupules_, _ecuelles_, or whatever we may be permitted to name them.

The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore Andrew Lang 1878