dendroglyph
arborglyph

The dendroglyph ritual may be associated with death or remembrance.

An Aboriginal dendroglyph (tree carving)which was associated with the Bora ground and paid great reverence.

Dendroglyph or carved ceremonial trees.

See arborglyph for tree carvings left by Basque shepherds.

However, paleontologists believe it to be the only known Native American arborglyph in the western United States.

"I love that how naughty he was, and his character, comes through his military papers, and no one may have known without reading that arborglyph."

Archaeological Implications of a Northern Chumash Arborglyph.

Amazingly, Saint Onge had just identified the West Coast's only known Native American arborglyph, one long hidden behind private property signs.

The scorpion tree was significant to the Chumash due to its arborglyph: a carving depicting a six-legged creature with a headdress including a crown and two spheres.

A centuries-old oak tree in California is considered to have a Chumash arborglyph, a carving of a six-legged creature with a head-dress including a crown and two spheres.

In 2006, an arborglyph on an oak tree in the Santa Lucia Range in San Luis Obispo County was discovered to be Chumash art.

Johnson and Saint Onge are most satisfied that the arborglyph is confirming what they've long known: that, despite centuries of being classified by historians as merely hunter-gatherers, the Chumash lived in a very complex and sophisticated society.

Although he says that the Chumash people's traditions were "stripped" by the Spanish mission system that ruled California 200 years ago, Talaugon believes that the arborglyph and its implications empower the ongoing cultural renaissance among those of Chumash descent.

It became increasingly obvious to Saint Onge that the arborglyph and related cave paintings weren't just the work of wild-eyed, drug-induced shamans - which has been a leading theory for decades - but that the ancient images were deliberate studies of the stars and served as integral components of the Chumash people's annual calendar.