Editing Rock art (section)

==Etymology==
The term ''rock art'' appears in the published literature as early as the 1940s.<ref>E. Goodall, ''Proceedings and Transactions of the Rhodesian Scientific Association'' 41:57-62, 1946: "Domestic Animals in rock art"</ref><ref>E. Goodall, ''Proceedings and Transactions of the Rhodesian Scientific Association'' 42:69-74, 1949: "Notes on certain human representations in Rhodesian rock art"</ref> It has also been described as "rock carvings",<ref>H. M. Chadwick, ''Origin Eng. Nation'' xii. 306, 1907: "The rock-carvings at Tegneby"</ref> "rock drawings",<ref>H. A. Winkler, ''Rock-Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt'' I. 26, 1938: "The discovery of rock-drawings showing boats of a type foreign to Egypt."</ref> "rock engravings",<ref>H. G. Wells, ''Outl. Hist.'' I. xvii. 126/1, 1920: From rock engravings we may deduce the theory that the desert was crossed from oasis to oasis.</ref> "rock inscriptions",<ref>Deutsch, ''Rem.'' 177, 1874: "The long rock-inscription of Hamamât."</ref> "rock paintings",<ref>''Encycl. Relig. & Ethics'' I. 822/2, 1908: "The rock-paintings are either stenciled or painted in outline."</ref> "rock pictures",<ref>''Man No.'' 119. 178/2, 1939: "On one of the stalactite pillars was found a big round stone with traces of red paint on its surface, as used in the rock-pictures"</ref> "rock records",<ref>G. Moore, ''The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East'', 1861, Title page: "with translations of Rock-Records in India."</ref> and "rock sculptures".<ref>Tylor, ''Early Hist. Man.'' v. 88, 1865, "and bush art or bushmen art."</ref><ref>Trust For African Rock Art, East Africa, common terminology,  "Rock-sculptures may often be symbolic boundary marks."</ref>