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Phu Pha Lek National Park -
Pha Pak Kwan Historical Paintings |
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Prehistoric Petroglyphs At Pha Phak Wan |
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In addition to archaeological sites which involve either ancient
residences or tombs, there is another kind archaeological site
in Isan region: petroglyphs. Petroglyph refers to images created
on a rock surface or a cave wall.
Prehistoric petroglyphs at
Pha Phak Wan are at Ban Phu Ta Kham, Song Dao district, Sakon
Nakhon province, or 18 kilometers away from the headquarter of
Phu Pha Lek national park. These 3,600-year-old prehistoric
paintings were found on an enormous rock. They feature an image
of women standing in line and holding each other’s shoulder.
The petroglyphs were created on one side of a gigantic sandstone
that measured 12 meters from the bottom to the top, 5 meters
above the ground on the western cave wall are the paintings in
red ink. The paintings reveal two group of people. The upper one
is a silhouette of people wearing bobbed hair, spreading legs,
bending down, raising their arched arms and opening their palms.
It is estimated that the people in the upper painting must be a
group of conductors, and that they must be controlling a group
of people in the lower painting. The lower painting contains an
outline drawing of 8 people standing in line and turning their
faces to the same direction. It looks as if they must be
performing a dance routine, as everyone in the lower painting
was bending down, tilting their pelvic and raising their hands
in a same manner. It is also assumed that the dance routine
might be quick because the hair wrapped in the back bounces. The
petroglyphs utilizes spacing to determine the distance between
two points where both groups of people stand, i.e. the dancers
in the lower painting look closer to the audience, while the
conductors in the upper painting look further away.
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Song Dao |
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17.24591, 103.44152 |
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