How do you translate petroglyphs?

Answer 1

The whimsical dancing lights of the modern-day aurora has about as much impact on our daily lives as do the wispy sheets of Virga that never reach the burning desert sands below. The High-Energy Aurora, on the other hand, would be more catastrophic than a category 5 hurricane, and more threatening than even the grandest lightning show you can imagine. Mere snippets locked into the psychic mythology of mankind coupled with the faithfully engraved petroglyphs and painted images left behind by our ancestors is all that remains of these long forgotten world shattering events. Nothing can prepare us for the beauty and shear scale of the devastation to be wrought upon us when it resurrects its glory and power and returns to a crystal blue sky near you.
In December, 2003, Anthony Peratt, a fellow alumnus from California State Polytechnic University, in Pomona, California, and a high-energy plasma physicist, published Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) transactions of Plasma Science (Vol. 31. No. 6). The abstract at the beginning of the article states:

The discovery that objects from the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age carry patterns associated with high-current Z-pinches provides a possible insight into the origin and meaning of these ancient symbols produced by man. This paper directly compares the graphical and radiation data from high-current Z-pinches to these patterns. The paper focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on petroglyphs. It is found that a great many archaic petroglyphs can be classified according to plasma stability and instability data. As the same morphological types are found worldwide, the comparisons suggest the occurrence of an intense aurora, as might be produced if the solar wind had increased between one and two orders of magnitude, millennia ago.

-Bill Petry