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What is the difference between a petroglyph and a pictograph?

Question #111147. Asked by serpa.
Last updated Dec 06 2016.

great2beme
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great2beme
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Answer has 8 votes.

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Pictograph- An ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object.

Petroglyph- Images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading.

Pictograph is painted on rock.

Petroglyph is scratched out of a rock.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroglyph

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictograph

Response last updated by LadyNym on Dec 06 2016.
Nov 29 2009, 8:08 PM
crotalus77
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crotalus77
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Answer has 4 votes.
A pictograph is a symbol or character standing for a word or group of words such as in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

link http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pictograph

A petroglyph is a picture carved into a rock.

link http://www.answers.com/topic/petroglyph

Response last updated by LadyNym on Dec 06 2016.
Nov 29 2009, 8:14 PM
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