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Since I’ve been posting a lot of photos from my recent trips, I thought it might be a good idea to post something from earlier this year. This is one of my favorite horned-snake petroglyphs f…
Over millions of years, the Colorado River and Green River have been have been busy at work creating the wonderous Canyonlands National Park of southern Utah. Deep canyon crevices, high mesas, and winding rivers make for excellent photography,...
Los indios Hopi son el pueblo nativoamericano vivo más antiguo del continente, acreedores de una cultura milenaria. Los Hopi, una pequeña nación de aprox. 10.000 individuos de habla uto-azteca, se …
Denny's denThe Anasazi Pueblo People were an ancient culture of Native Americans who were believed to have lived as long ago as the 12 century BCE. These
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Petroglyph: 4 Shamans of the Anasazi Indians with Kokopelli Fertility God Symbol from the Barrier Canyon Natl. Park in Utah Measurements: 16 inches x 8 inches x 1 inch Weight: 1600 grams Horseshoe Canyon, formerly known as Barrier Canyon, is in a remote area west of the Green River and north of the Canyonlands National Park Maze District in Utah, USA. It is known for its collection of Barrier Canyon Style (BCS) rock art, including both pictographs and petroglyphs, which was first recognized as a unique style here. A portion of Horseshoe Canyon containing The Great Gallery is part of a detached unit of Canyonlands National Park. The Horseshoe Canyon Unit was added to the park in 1971 in an attempt to preserve and protect the rock art found along much of its length. Human presence in Horseshoe Canyon has been dated as far back as 7000-9000 B.C., when Paleo-Indians hunted large mammals such as Mastodons and Mammoths across the southwest. Later inhabitants included the Desert Archaic culture, the Fremont culture, and Ancestral Puebloans. Occupation by the Fremont and Ancestral Puebloans was relatively brief; it is believed that the canyon was abandoned by Native American peoples by 1300 A.D. The Great Gallery is one of the largest and best preserved collections of Barrier Canyon Style rock art in the United States. The gallery was a product of the Desert Archaic culture, a nomadic group of hunter-gatherers predating the Fremont and Ancestral Puebloans. The panel itself measures about 200 feet (61 m) long and 15 feet (4.6 m) high. The panel contains about 20 life-sized anthropomorphic images, the largest of which measures over 7 feet (2.1 m) tall. A Works Projects Administration produced reproduction of the paintings is located at the Natural History Museum of Utah. The Holy Ghost panel of the Great Gallery has been dated to between 400 A.D. and 1100 A.D. by dating two rockfall events of which one exposed the rock face the panel was made and the second damaging part of the panel.
See Anasazi Petroglyphs in southern Utah My husband discovered these petroglyphs on top of some huge sandstone boulders located in the Stone Cliff commu...
On the basalts along the Gila River
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In most of the world, petroglyphs remain largely mysterious. They were carved long ago by people whose cultures have vanished, and at best we can vaguely relate them to half-forgotten myths. Most could mean anything. This is not true in the American southwest. Here, thousands of surviving petroglyphs were carved by people whose culture still endures among the Hopi and Zuni. The most common symbols are those of the Hopi clans, of which these are a sample. Others depict the myths that the Hopi reenact in their famous rituals. These depict the trickster musician kokopelli. Mindful of this heritage, the Hopi tribe has been cooperating in an effort to digitally record the most important petroglyph sites, especially those no longer on tribal lands. A worthy cause, I would say.
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McKee Rock Art, probably the most famous figure in Dinosaur National Monument. Image published as part of a newspaper travel story on Dinosaur NM: netfiles.uiuc.edu/pahre/www/Pahre-Taste-Dinosaur.jpg
The sandstone cliffs of Sego Canyon are a spectacular outdoor art gallery of petroglyphs painted and carved by Native Americans peoples over a period of around 8,000 years. They are characterised by more than 80 imposing and haunting life-sized figures with hollowed eyes or missing eyes and the frequent absence of arms and legs.
Archaic petroglyphs found along the Dolores River in western Colorado.
The Hopi word for 'ancient ones'. These Hopi clan symbol petroglyphs located in NE Arizona are estimated to be 500 years old.
