Who would have thought that Germany has so many unnoticed, secret treasures? So far I have only seen the rock paintings and engravings in secluded rocky mountains in Namibia. So this is a first for me…
I was so excited to find well-preserved rock art right under my bicycle’s wheels!
It seems these amazing petrographs (Images drawn or painted on rock face) tell stories of a life long past, of strange animals that have walked this part of the earth and the humans that have shared their existence.
These very expressive, graphic pictograms reveal a great craftmanship, fluid line control and the ability to paint the soul of the being with only a few lines. But what do they represent? Why have these images of animals and humans been drawn right here on these cycling paths?
Since we know that some of the animals represented in these petrographs, like the Decimpedi dinosaur (a longish dinosaur with 10 legs), have long died out, we can assume that these images are really, really ancient.
And by the way, this is not my own art, just something I found and thought interesting enough to share with you!
Click on the images to see a detailed larger view.
(Found close to Ahrenshoop in August 2015)
Imke Rust 
Ha ha! Well observed!
Thank you… I just love seeing ordinary things in a different light 🙂 🙂
Wow, they’re awesome! What a wonderful find – there’s so much inspiring things happening all around us if we only look. 🙂
Jep, we just need to look and appreciate even the smallest things… And in this case, as Leonard Cohen sings: “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Even cracks in the street, let the light/art/inspiration in. 🙂