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Submitted by torwen on Sunday, 14 July 2013  Page Views: 5535

Rock ArtSite Name: Waikoloa Petroglyph Field
Country: United States Region: The West Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Kailua Kona  Nearest Village: Waikoloa
Latitude: 19.916987N  Longitude: 155.880136W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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Waikoloa Petroglyph Field
Waikoloa Petroglyph Field submitted by torwen : Waikoloa petroglyphs (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in Hawai'i.
The Waikoloa Petroglyph Preserve is situated just north of the border between the ancient Hawaiian kingdoms of Lālāmilo and Waikoloa. Most of its petroglyphs date to a time before contact with the Western world (basically the arrival of Captain Cook in 1778), but on the edges of the field there are also petroglyphs clearly younger and showing horses, sailing ships, muskets, and Roman letters.

The smooth pāhoehoe lava rock provides the canvas for the thousands of carvings. Although 80 % of the carvings are cup- and ringmarks, 12 % represent human figures and the rest miscellaneous representations like animals, canoes and so forth.
The most prominent motif of this petroglyph area seems to be birth and fertility. Many cupmarks were used for the piko ceremony, where the umbilical cord of a newborn baby was wrapped in tapa cloth, placed in a cupmark , and covered with a stone. If the next day the remnant was missing it was considered a bad omen because it was thought to have been taken by a rat. Rats are considered thieves by Hawaiians and the child would thus absorb the negative traits of a thief.
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Waikoloa Petroglyph Field
Waikoloa Petroglyph Field submitted by torwen : Some shelter caverns were also used as burial places (Vote or comment on this photo)

Waikoloa Petroglyph Field
Waikoloa Petroglyph Field submitted by torwen : Woman giving birth (?), Waikoloa Petroglyph Field (Vote or comment on this photo)

Waikoloa Petroglyph Field
Waikoloa Petroglyph Field submitted by torwen : Human figure, Waikoloa Petroglyph Field (Vote or comment on this photo)

Waikoloa Petroglyph Field
Waikoloa Petroglyph Field submitted by torwen : One of the many field shelters in the Waikoloa Petroglyph field (Vote or comment on this photo)

Waikoloa Petroglyph Field
Waikoloa Petroglyph Field submitted by DrewParsons : Human figure.

Waikoloa Petroglyph Field
Waikoloa Petroglyph Field submitted by DrewParsons : A collection of various petroglyphs on another rock here

Waikoloa Petroglyph Field
Waikoloa Petroglyph Field submitted by DrewParsons : Rock shelters used as people waited to cross the tribal boundary here.

Waikoloa Petroglyph Field
Waikoloa Petroglyph Field submitted by DrewParsons : A series of concentric circles.

Waikoloa Petroglyph Field
Waikoloa Petroglyph Field submitted by DrewParsons : Various petroglyphs on this rock. There are dozens of petroglyphs at this site

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Re: Waikoloa Petroglyph Field by Anonymous on Tuesday, 27 November 2018
The templar knights traveled to and from Hawaii..they brought Cassandra to Greece..and the ancient artwork I studied extensively ..it was prophecy not a historical tale. Cassandra fanous for being gifted future telling..bit cursed that ahe cpuld persuade no one .
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    Re: Waikoloa Petroglyph Field by bat400 on Tuesday, 27 November 2018
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    What ancient artwork was that? And Stop trying to text while walking ... you’ll get hit by a truck.
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Re: Waikoloa Petroglyph Field by Sunny100 on Monday, 02 March 2015
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I doubt very much the Romans got over to western America, let alone carved their Latin letters here. Maybe St Brendan ?
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Re: Waikoloa Petroglyph Field by Anonymous on Sunday, 01 March 2015
Why are there Roman letters among the Waikoloa petroglyphs?
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    Re: Waikoloa Petroglyph Field by Anonymous on Tuesday, 03 March 2015
    Though i have not seen the particular panels here i suggest it has the usual cause: historic or modern vandalism. So many rock art panels all over the world show modern "additions" like all sorts of letters etc.
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