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Archaeology of Texas Rock Art
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Hueco Tanks ("hueco" means hollow in Spanish; tanks refers to water storage) is an archaeological site in southwestern Texas, with over 6000 examples of rock art dating from the Archaic period (ca 6000-2000 BC) up through the mid-nineteenth century.
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The first nonportable art in the world was pecked and painted and scratched into the walls of caves and on rock surfaces.
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