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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pleiades Stone of Tarzens - Rock Art in Austria

Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 07 March 2024  Page Views: 54

Rock ArtSite Name: Pleiades Stone of Tarzens Alternative Name: Pleiades cupstone
Country: Austria
NOTE: This site is 5.198 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Rock Art

Latitude: 47.318611N  Longitude: 11.751111E
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:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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
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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
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Pleiades Stone of Tarzens
Pleiades Stone of Tarzens submitted by Andy B : First drone image of excavation field 1 showing the uncovered cupstone with different ages of the cups. The smaller cups with a diameter of approx. 1.5 cm are fully painted with blackboard chalk. Younger and larger, better preserved ones are outlined with chalk. As it now became apparent that the slabs at the upper end of the excavation field certainly went even further, the excavation manag... (Vote or comment on this photo)
A cup-marked stone that has been excavated by the University of Innsbruck Archaeology department.

Bronze Age settlement foundations and finds were made last year during the excavation of the new Ellbögen school, indicating a very early settlement.
It can therefore not be ruled out that there was a settlement here even earlier in the Stone Age.
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Pleiades Stone of Tarzens
Pleiades Stone of Tarzens submitted by Andy B : Speculative translation by Herbert Kirnbauer, author of the book “Steinzeit-Code, Die Schalensteinschrift”, Freya Verlag These Pleiades cupstones, as well as the large one in Fornare alto on Lake Garda,Italy, above Torri di Benaco, with 4 Pleiades images, which has an almost similar text, are a rarity. If you break down text A, it says nothing else, when the Pleiades set in the fall, the h... (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Pleiades Stone of Tarzens
Pleiades Stone of Tarzens submitted by Andy B : There are a total of 3 different cupstone types on the cupstone slab and age: In the upper left part of the slab 8 pieces of chipped shells with clear chipping marks 4 A-H 25mm-30mm diameter and approx. 8-10mm depth very heavily weathered In the lower left part 1A-D and 2A-D small drilled cups diameter 20mm and approx. 5-8mm depth All other cups drilled 25-30mm drill, all approx. 6mm to ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pleiades Stone of Tarzens
Pleiades Stone of Tarzens submitted by Andy B : On 15.11.23 Belinda Reinhard and I drove to Tarzens to check these lines. To do this, we placed neon-colored Plexiglas rods over the bowls, which represent these lines to better illustrate them. If you now continue the bearing to the next mountain ridges or peaks, you come to the point at which the winter or summer suns rise or set. There is also an alignment where the Pleiades rise and ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pleiades Stone of Tarzens
Pleiades Stone of Tarzens submitted by Andy B : The solstice lines on the Cupstone of Tarzens as interpreted by Thomas Walli. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pleiades Stone of Tarzens
Pleiades Stone of Tarzens submitted by Andy B : Belinda, a very diligent archaeologist, cleaning the excavation cuts. Now there were five of us, with Werner Kräutler, Josef Höfer, Thomas Walli-Knofler and Belinda Reinhard, as well as our friend and excavation manager Bert Ilsinger.

Pleiades Stone of Tarzens
Pleiades Stone of Tarzens submitted by Andy B : The stone prior to excavation. (1 comment)

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