petroglyph in English

noun
1
a rock carving, especially a prehistoric one.
Established in 1990, this national park holds over 17,000 petroglyphs , or carvings and drawings made on rocks, some of which are over 2,000 years old.

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1. I think it's a petroglyph.

2. Bandelier art, petroglyph art, wall art, signed and matted, New Mexico art, southwest wall décor, Southwest art PuebloPrints

3. In the Great Basin, Cupules have been termed the "pit-and-groove petroglyph style" (Heizer and Baumhoff 1962), but grooves are almost never associated with the features in San Diego County.

4. Large petroglyph sites with Cupules are also found in the Fraser River canyon (Lundy 1977) and at numerous sites along the Columbia and Snake Rivers [figures 27 & 28] (Leen 1988, Keyser 1992)

5. Made by Petroglyph Games, a studio made up of former Westwood Studios developers who worked on original games, Command & Conquer Remastered includes both the original Command & Conquer and Red Alert as well as all their respective expansions.