Air Force 1 Cup and Ring Markings Prehistoric Rock

It is an abstract form of art, because there are never any representations recognisable as animals or people. They are often known as cup and ring marks, although sometimes the cups may appear in groups,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or by themselves, or occasionally surrounded by rectangles rather than circles.
The different markings are often joined together by tails emerginging from the cups and cutting through the rings.
It seems most likely that these markings were made in the Neolithic or New Stone Age, after agriculture had been introduced and life for most people became more settled. This means they date between 4000 BC and 2000 BC.
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Archaeologists have studied these markings for decades and new ones are constantly being discovered. They bear no direct relation to known prehistoric settlement sites and are extremely difficult to date. Similar markings appear on rocks hundred of miles apart and with no obvious connection.
Sometimes whole rocks are covered, sometimes just parts of a rock, for example Roughting Lynn in Northumberland, northern England. Most of the rocks decorated are horizontal or nearly so, although markings do appear on vertical surfaces in some places. They normally appear in areas with poor soils where farmers would not have been able to grow successful crops, and often in positions where there is,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or has been,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a good viewpoint.
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They are normally accepted as being associated with the religious beliefs of Neolithic people, although some archaeologists believe they are territorial markers. The only way of assigning a date is by looking at the carvings where they appear with sites of a known date.
The Bronze Age started around 2000 BC. By this time people had probably forgotten why the carvings had been made in the first place. The slabs covered burials with pottery and grave goods which we know belonged to the Bronze Age, so the markings must be earlier that these burials.
How old are the markings?
Cup and ring markings also appear on stone circles such as Temple Wood in western Scotland. It is unclear whether the markings were made before or after the circle had been made,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so they are of no help for dating. Archaeologists are also undecided about the link with rock art – mainly spirals and triangles – found in prehistoric tombs such as Newgrange in Ireland, as these seem to belong to a different tradition.
It is likely that many were alongside ancient trails, leading some archaeologists to believe that they are connected with areas used by nomadic hunters or herders.
Some decorated rocks were deliberately quarried and used as cist (stone coffin) covers in the Bronze Age, perhaps because they were considered to be a link with tribal ancestors. It is normally the underside, closest to the burial, that was decorated.
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