Analysis and Comparison of Hand – Woven Motifs of Qashqai Nomads with the Rock Patterns of Migration Routes and Their Settlements in Fars Province

Rock patterns are those carved or painted on the smooth surface of rocks, which are considered to be the first examples of human art. Since most of these motifs are located on the path of nomadic migration, hunting grounds and pastures, it strengthens the hypothesis of the encounter and communication of the nomads with them. The craving of these patterns has a kind of simplicity, the same kind of simplicity that is visible in the artworks of the nomadic tribes, and it has many manifestations among its followers among the nomad of land of Iran. This article tries to classify, analyze and compare the rock patterns that have been identified so far along the routs of the Qashqai nomads and their tribes in Fars province with the hand- woven patterns of the ethnic, and the similarities and possible connections between them. Express to achieve this goal, the common aspects of the two patterns are described and finally, the hypothesis is proposed that the patterns used by the creators of both arts are probably for the purpose of creating a mark or a trace of themselves to show the right of ownership, statistics of existing realities in social and economic life, or some kind of presentation of ethnic belonging and patriotism have been done by them.