#cup marks

[thesilicontribesman]

Ballochmyle Prehistoric Rock Art Panels, Ballochmyle, East Ayrshire, Scotland

[04032021]

cup marks

[ancientorigins]

The Enchanted Valley in Chile contains a curious collection of rock art depicting figures which have puzzled experts for decades. Are they part of a lithic library recording visits by ancient aliens to Earth?

[muspelheim71]

At Hunebed D3 and its 'twin brother' D4, located on the Steenakkers on the Schutsweg in south of Midlaren, the Netherlands.

Built between 3400 and 3100 BCE and attributed to the Funnelbeaker culture.

In 1870, the remains of the mounds were excavated, revealing pots and three flint axes.

In 2003, pottery from the time of the was found under the floor of the nearby barn of the small farm.

In 2018, cups marks were discovered on this dolmen.

[grimmborg-in-the-bog]

The Sun Altar

A portion of the Bronze Age monument Fluberget near Stavanger in Norway.

Fluberget is a rock covered in 170 visible carved figures and 80 cup marks, most of them surrounding giant's kettles formed in the last ice age. The largest concentration of carvings can be found in the depression on the south facing wall called the Sun Altar.

It may have been an important gathering place of religious significance, especially since two large bronze Lurs were found in a bog 200 meters away.

[yoshizora]

i realized i never showed the completed piece so here it is! it’s a hasty video because someone purchased it at the event i was tabling at. i felt a little sad about parting ways with it, but the customer really really liked it and it’s such a nice feeling to see someone truly love something you made. also i made a hefty chunk of money lol

i plan to make more centipede pieces anyway, that one was more like a prototype. 🥳

[fure-dcmk]

saw this kaihei mug cup they are releasing so i also want to bring up the heishin mug cup from 2017:

[inkedcitruses]

My only contribution to shadowpeaches is drawing a lover child cuz i was bored so i redrew him again

His name is Sunder btw

[kreeeeeez]

violet frost and violette rainbow

[bulldog-butch]

so proud of the progress i’ve made over the last few months 🥲

[prostocupoftea]

Someone in kinitomap discord asked for him so have this

[thesilicontribesman]

Castleton Prehistoric Rock Art, nr. Falkirk, Scotland

[endofbeginings]

2010 FIFA WORLD CUP STICKERS (f1 edition)

(2002) (2006)

[braisedhoney]

It’s the little things. That’s what I’ll treasure the most.

This one goes out to all my fellow ‘responsible’ captains. We tried our best boys. The EMOTION I felt when we got our funky little coffee cup and little pep talks from the crew,,,, hell yeah dude. Cheers to our new planet. 

Brushes: 

- For all painting/sketching/writing I used the Jingsketch sketch round (it’s free! <3 like iswm)

- The black backgrounds were a default watercolor brush!

april 4th 2023 edit: one year later and… oh god. revisiting this is both painful and weirdly validating as an artist—on one hand it is objectively so much worse than the new one. on the other, it’s weirdly motivating as evidence of my progress.)

[muspelheim71]

At Hunebed D2. This Dolmen is located near the Norgerholt at Norg/Westervelde, The Netherlands.

It is a small dolmen from the Funnel Beaker culture and had originally four capstones. A remnant of the third capstone is in the grave and the fourth one is missing. The stones were sadly used as building material or road pavement. But they had to be reduced first. This was done by drilling holes, filling them with gunpowder and detonating them. Holes can still be seen in the remainder. Fortunately, there is now a sign explaining that it’s a burial side and it should be treated with respect.

This hunebed is 8 meters long and 3 meters wide. No scientific research has ever been done into this hunebed, it is possible that the cellar contents are still intact.

In 2018, cup marks were discovered on the monument. They consist of a concave depression, no more than a few centimeters across.

The cup marks have often been interpreted as fertility symbols, calendars, fire drills, images of constellations, maps or signposts. In the specialist literature they are often explained as sacrificial bowls. Some experts like to point out that the Hindus would pour offerings into such bowls.

I’d like to point out that the Hindus are indeed an Indo-European people but that the funnel beaker people were here before the Yamnaya culture spread.

In the context of the Kurgan hypothesis, the Funnelbeaker culture is seen as non-Indo-European. These Old European peoples would later be dominated by peoples of the Indo-European Yamnaya culture who invaded from the east.

Nevertheless, according to other reports, they are natural altars on which food, flowers or aromatic plants were offered to fertility gods. In Scandinavia many of the names connect cup-marks with elves, dwarves and various other-worldly beings (the so-called underjordiske)

It is known in Germany that people put butter in these cups. From this an ointment would be obtained or it would be an offering to supernatural beings. Such stones were called butter stones.

I’d better pour some lemonade here, I usually do not carry butter with me while I’m biking!

[lickmylundqvist]

Not superstitious just a little a stitious