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Ausevika Figure Interpretation 1
I drew an interpretation of what the creature in one of the rock carving figures at Ausevika might represent. The petroglyph figure depicts a a four-legged creature with a large mouth and big claws. My first thought was that it might be a bear, but the ears are too long for a bear. Maybe a…
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Monkeybot – a simple chatbot template
Update: a slightly different version of the code is now on GitHub, and you can test Monkeybot here. I made a simple chatbot called Monkeybot for my website, and I’ll share the code for anyone who wants to do something similar. The Monkeybot simply replies with a string of random letters to any question from…
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Møllerstufossen Petroglyphs Part 2
First post about Møllerstufossen: https://andersgoliversen.com/blog/2022/05/16/mollerstufossen/ Some of the figures at Møllerstufossen reminds me of goats more than moose or deer, such as this one: Møllerstufossen is one of two areas with petroglyphs in Innlandet county, the other one being Moelv which has some figures that also look like goats to me: https://andersgoliversen.com/blog/page/5/ There is a…
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Animal heads
Some recent colored pencil drawings of a pigeon, a lioness and a bear done as Christmas gifts.
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Vingen Figure Interpretation 2
The Vingen rock carvings (Vingenfeltet) are located in Bremanger in Vestland County. It is one of the largest rock carving sites in Norway and the carvings are dated to approximately 4000-3000 BCE during the Nordic Stone Age. In this blog post, I will explore different interpretations of a figure that is typically interpreted as representing…
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Randomly display different versions of an image
I created two versions of an illustration of a letter to be displayed on the contact page of my website. I wanted which version of the image that was displayed to be random and wrote some code to make this happen. I’ll share the code here incase some wants to something similar on their website.…
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Alta Humanoid Petroglyph
There are a few humanoid figures in the north of Norway with spread arms and legs like the one above. A typical interpretation of this type of figure is that of a pregnant woman about to give birth, perhaps seen from above when lying on the ground. But there are several aspects of the figure…
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Workshop and Melhus Petroglyphs
I held a workshop/seminar about interpreting rock art for first year archeology students at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. In the evening I joined the students and teachers on a field trip to Melhus to view petroglyphs after dark. There are several areas with recently found petroglyphs in Melhus in the…
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Moelv Petroglyphs Part 6
Figure 14 The figure to the left (figure 14) i interpreted as a moose where the internal pattern is a snake with an open mouth inside the stomach of the moose. Why the original artists drew these internal patterns on deer figures is a bit of a mystery. That the artist’s intent was to represent…
