Rupestral vs Rupestrian - What's the difference?

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Rupestral is a related term of rupestrian.

As adjectives the difference between rupestral and rupestrian

is that rupestral is (art|archaeology) made on or placed on rock surfaces while rupestrian is occurring, or executed on rocks, or on cave walls.

rupestral

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Adjective

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(art, archaeology) Made on or placed on rock surfaces.

* 1982 , William Kendrick Pritchett, Studies in Ancient Greek Topography , page 277,

Having departed from Sardis and before reaching the mnema of Tos, the traveller saw a monument which was either a free-standing pillar or a rupestral tablet, depending on how we interpret the word.^{[ ]}

* 1995 , Josiah Ober, Greek Horoi: Artifactual Texts and the Contingency of Meaning'', David B. Small (editor), ''Methods in the Mediterranean: Historical and Archaeological Views on Texts & Archaeology , page 115,

In the course of the last decade, a fair number of ancient rupestral (rock-cut) horoi have been published from various sites in southern Attica.

* 2008 , Harald Haarmann, Joan Marler, Introducing the Mythological Crescent: Ancient Beliefs and Imagery connecting Eurasia with Anatolia , page 14,

Representational art appears in two major categories: rupestral art (as in the paintings of the Palaeolithic caves) and mobiliary art (also called mobile or portable art).

Constructed in rock; made of rock.

* 2007 , Jennifer Larson, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide , page 82,

On the north side ofthe city, just outside the wall, the rupestral sanctuary of S. Biagio consists of a series of artificial caves or tunnels in the rocky hillside.

* 2011 , Ömür Harma?ah, 28: Monuments an Memory: Architecture and Visual Culture in Ancient Anatolian History'', Sharon R. Steadman, Gregory McMahon (editors), ''The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia: (10,000-323 BCE) , page 643,

The sculpted and columnar rupestral tombs of Achaemenid Paphlagonia, the mountainous Black Sea region west of the Halys (K?z?l Irmak), are equally fascinating in their place-making qualities and their deliberate use of the living rock.

(botany) Growing on rocks.

* 1915 , Linnean Society of London, The Journal of the Linnean Society: Botany , Volume 43, page 93,

The rupestral species have been the next class of lichens to suffer from the atmospheric pollution; and the effects are particularly noticeable in the hilly districts in the eastern part of South Lancashire.

* 1973 , James Holms Dickson, Bryophytes of the Pleistocene , page 123,

By contrast, in the oak woodland on a steep hillside at Keskadale in Cumberland the occurrence is solely rupestral .

* 2012 , Derek Ratcliffe, A Nature Conservation Review , Volume 1, page 78,

Among the more notable of these rupestral oceanic and Atlantic bryophytes of acidic rocks are the mosses.