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Episode X:

Landscape character Part II

Continued from Page 14

The QD-landscape had a second
important function for the pre-
historic groups. Pictographs and
petroglyphs are found on QD boul-
ders. Most of the pictographs are
found in the natural cavities of the
boulders. These cavities are a prod-
uct of chemical weathering of the
rock and are always situated on
the leeside of the boulder. Twelve
of the seventeen rock drawing sites
are in the QD landscape. Quartz
diorite was used to make a vari-
ety of tools. It has the characteris-
tic that it evens out easily after it’s
chipped. The natural round form
made it a good material to make
grinding tools and sling-and ham-
mer-stones. The natural cavities
were furtherly deepened to make
metates.

Ancient Arubans knew very good
how to implement what was on Pic.4 : The hilly land scape
hand and even going so far to im-
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