pretty cool stuff about rocks.

'Bart en de steen die terug naar huis ging' (2020)

The best documentary about a rock.

200.000 years ago a glacier broke off a stone from his mother stone and carried him to the Netherlands. In October 2019, Bart Eysink Smeets brought this stone – finally – back home. 

©Copyright Bart Eysink Smeets

List of cool rocks

Discover some of earth’s coolest rocks! Read about their story, find their locations, or add to the list of rocks. By sharing about a rock that is famous in your local area.

©Copyright Mike and Kirsty Grundy

petroglyphs

A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.

Indian petroglyphs in Columbia River Gorge near The Dalles Dam

balbals

Kurgan stelae or Balbals (Ukrainian: балбал, most probably from Turkic word balbal meaning “ancestor” or “grandfather”) are anthropomorphic stone stelae, images cut from stone, installed atop, within or around kurgans (i.e. tumuli), in kurgan cemeteries, or in a double line extending from a kurgan. The stelae are also described as “obelisks” or “statue menhirs”.

©Copyright Alexey Kovalev

Rock stacking game

Experience the pleasure of stacking rocks online.
Game by Neal.fun

©Copyright Neal.fun

Children's game #18: Knucklebones

Film series by Francis Alÿs.

Knucklebones, or jacks, has existed for more than 2000 years and was first played with the astralagus bones of a sheep. This version –played with stones by two girls seated on the landing of a concrete stairway.

©Copyright Francis Alÿs

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