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| Old Woman Cave Pictographs & petroglyphs at a shaman's cave in the Old Woman Mountains, eastern Mojave Desert, California. 12 Photographs December 2007 | ||
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Did Neandertals Paint Early
Cave Art? By: Michael Balter June 2012 new window |
Anasazi Ridge A Virgin River Anasazi petroglyph site near St. George, Utah. 10 photographs June 2007 |
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Construction debris littering
northern part of Petroglyphs By: Danielle Todesco June 2012 new window |
Sheep Canyon Petroglyphs in the Coso Range, near Ridgecrest, California. 10 photographs May 2007 | |
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Coalition raises money for petroglyph studies By: Courtney Vaughn May 2012 new window |
Little Blair Valley A Kumeyaay girls ceremonial pictograph site in the Anza Borrego Desert, California. 10 photographs April 2007 | |
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Interpretive Center Rising at
Bandit’s Hideout By Katalin Szabolcsi May 2012 new window |
Anasazi Ridge A Virgin River Anasazi petroglyph site near St. George, Utah. 10 photographs June 2007 |
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Men sentenced for defacing pictographs By: Spokesman-Review March 2012 new window |
Sheep Canyon Petroglyphs in the Coso Range, near Ridgecrest, California. 10 photographs May 2007 | |
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Interpretive
Center Rising at Bandit’s Hideout By: Katalin Szabolcsi May 2012 new window |
Little Blair Valley A Kumeyaay girls ceremonial pictograph site in the Anza Borrego Desert, California. 10 photographs April 2007 | |
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Men sentenced for defacing pictographs By: Spokesman-Review March 2012 new window |
Lower Butler Wash A Basketmaker Anasazi petroglyph site on the San Juan River, Utah. 12 photographs December 2006 | |
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Men sentenced for defacing pictographs By: Spokesman-Review March 2012 new window |
Picture Canyon A Mohave rock art site near the Colorado River in Needles, California. 9 Photographs November 2006 | |
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Rock paintings of the precordillera region of northern Chile
PDF file By: M. Sepulveda, T. Saintenoy, W. Faundes February 2012 |
Arrastre Spring An interesting site in the Panamint Mountains high above Death Valley, California. 10 Photographs June 2006 |
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World will survive latest end-date By Bruce Tallman January 2012 new window |
Indian Well A multi cultural petroglyph site in Lanfair Valley, California. 10 Photographs February 2006 | |
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Tribes join forces to save petroglyph site By: Pauline Arrillaga January 2012 new window |
Renegade Canyon Largest petroglyph concentration in North America located in the Coso Mountain Range, near Ridgecrest, California. 14 photographs Revised July 2005 | |
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Utah hiker finds rare blue
panel in San Rafael Swell By: Carlile, Bergreen, Alberty, & Prettyman August 2011 new window |
Selby Rocks A Chumash and Yokut pictograph site on the Carrizo Plain, California. 10 Photographs August 2006 | |
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Area petroglyphs offer
glimpse into the past By Darren Daronco July 2011 new window |
Nine Mile Canyon A major Utah site with rock art from the Fremont, Anasazi and Ute Cultures. April 2006 | |
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Stolen petroglyph returns to
canyon after rocky journey By: Carri Geer Thevenot July 2011 new window |
Painted Rock Resevoir A mid size Hohokam rock art and solstice site near Gila Bend, Arizona. 10 Photographs March 2006 | |
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Archaic Texan Rock Art Reveals Prehistoric Culture By: Solveig Turpin July 2011 new window |
Coyote Hole A Serrano petroglyph site near Joshua Tree, California. 10 Photographs January 2006 | |
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Stiffer penalties ahead for
graffiti vandals By: Jackie Valley June 2011 new window |
Hanging
Mesa A few dozen Archaic hunter/gatherer
petroglyphs superimposed by Numic Scratch Style at Hanging Mesa, Nevada. 8
photographs December 2005 |
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Shaman whalers of ancient
Kodiak island By: frontierscientists June 2011 new window |
Mule Tank A small Yuman and Chimehuevi petroglyph in the eastern desert near Blythe, California. 8 photographs October 2005 | |
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Restoration of vandalized rock art getting under way By: Kyle Hansen May 2011 new window |
Atlatl Cliff An archaic Pinto Culture petroglyph site near Little Lake, California. 6 photographs September 2005 | |
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Carving Your Name Into 1000-Plus-Year-Old
Petroglyphs Could Earn You...
By: James King April 2011 new window |
Corn Spring A Desert Cahuilla and Yuman petroglyph site west of Blythe, California. 10 photographs August 2005 | |
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"Dinosaur" petroglyphs at Kachina
Bridge site... SE Utah; not dinosaurs after all By: Phil Senter and Sally J. Cole March 2011 new window |
Ayer's Rock Pictographs Located on a large boulder near Coso Junction, California. 5 photographs Revised June 2005 | |
| Giant geoglyphs under threat by Californian solar projects February 2011 new window |
Death Valley Panamint Mountains petroglyphs at the north end of Death Valley, California. 11 photographs June 2005 |
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Human hand petroglyphs By: James L. Murphy Feb 2011 new window |
Baja Rock Art Petroglyphs & pictographs at three Northern Baja rock art sites near Cataviña, BC. El Palmarito, La Bocana, San Fernando Velicata. 16 photographs March 2005 |
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Alta Vista petroglyphs, Nayarit,
Mexico Dec 2010 new window |
Greenwater Canyon Archaic Desert Culture petroglyphs in Greenwater canyon, Death Valley, California. 10 photographs January 2005 |
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Newly discovered Iranian petroglyph panels under threat By: past horizons Dec 2010 new window |
Blue Sun Cave Kumeyaay and Northern Diegueno pictographs at Indian Hill, near Ocotillo, California. 10 photos April 2004 | |
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Hueco Tanks State Park and
Historic Site August 2010 new window |
Black Tank Wash Archaic and Numic pictographs and petroglyphs in the Cinder Cone Volcanic Field, near Baker, California. 12 photographs March 2004 | |
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Rock art redefines 'ancient' By: David Page January 2010 new window |
New Well An Anasazi ruin located 27 miles Northeast of St. Johns, Arizona. 8 photographs |
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Petroglyphs in southeast Alaska By: Bonnie Demerjian October 2009 new window |
Sheep Springs Located in a small boulder field in the El Paso Mountains, California. 12 photographs Revised May 2005 |
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The
Colombian rock art spiral. A shamanic tunnel? By: Harry Andrew Marriner Nov 2008 new window |
Chevelon Creek Sinagua and Anasazi rock art southeast of Winslow, Arizona. 8 photographs |
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Thousands Of Humans Inhabited
New World's Doorstep For 20,000 Years Science Daily February 2008 new window |
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Rock Art Vandalism by: Donald Austin |
Inscription Canyon Black Mountain area, a petroglyph site northwest of Barstow California. 11 photographs Revised August 2004 | |
| ARTICLES | Howe's Tank Desert Culture (Serrano, Shoshone et al) petroglyphs in the lava flows in the Mojave Desert east of Barstow, California. 12 photographs June 2004 | |
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The Stahl Site
Petroglyphs By: Donald Austin |
Steam Well A Kawaiisu petroglyph site near Red Mountain, California. 10 photographs. February 2004 | |
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The Coso Sheep Cult of
Eastern California By: Alan Garfinkel |
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Death
Valley's Other Moving Rocks By: Geron Marcom |
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Dating
the Coso Range Projectile Point Petroglyphs By: Alan Garfinkel & J. Kenneth Pringle |
Surprise Tank An easy to visit site in the Rodman Mountains, east of Barstow, California. 6 photographs | |
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Using Decorrelation Stretch to Enhance Rock Art Images By: Jon Harman Ph.D. |
Black Canyon The Black Knoll section, northwest of Barstow, California. 8 photographs |
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The Terese
Petroglyph Site By: Alan Garfinkel |
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Petroglyph Question |
Possible Interpretations |
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Bighorn sheep are almost always depicted with four legs, but this one from the Jail House Ruin, Grand Gulch, Utah only has two. What is the significance of a two legged sheep?
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1/1/2009 |
I think it was the horns that were important and
not the number of legs. Arthur, Wilmington, DE |
| 1/4/2009 | A two legged sheep can mean only one thing. The two legged sheep depicts a human who has returned to the covenant (Depicted on the Los Lunas Stone). BR | |
| 2/16/2009 | That looks to me more like a bird with a grand crest of feathers on it’s head. The feet are birdlike also. Annette | |
| 2/24/2009 |
I don't know what the significance of a 2 legged
sheep is but this looks like a chicken. How do you know that it is a sheep?
Teacher ... because of the typical sheep horns, elongated face, semi-lunate boat shaped body and hoofed feet. DA |
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| 3/7/2009 |
I'm not anything resembling an authority on
petroglyphs, but it seems to me that combined animals are fairly common.
Besides having only two legs, the feet are rather unsheep-like, so it looks
to me like a classic sheep-bird. Glenna, McMinnville, Oregon
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| 3/9/2009 | Look at the feet. I think it's a bird! (see feet photos added 3/9/2009. Why two legs? DA) | |
| 4/12/2009 | Maybe it's humor! Started as a sheep, and someone finished it as a bird. Beverly | |
| 5/4/2009 |
Hello, I can't see anything denoting legs
that are folded down, such as when a sheep "stands" on it's hind legs
to reach taller vegetation so, I was wondering if the artist only saw
the sheep from behind and drew what he/she knew to be a valid
representation but only with two legs. Heather
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| 7/29/2009 | My thoughts on the sheep/bird morph are exactly that. It appears to be two animals morphed into one. Possibly due to the similar coloration of white in the animals appearance. If the sheep is actually a mountain goat and the bird aspect is a white crane then it makes sense.... Perhaps it is a bird that the original artist or a later artist added onto by using the natural grain of the rock itself. We may never know it's exact meaning...ceremonial,utilitarian or just graffiti? Michael | |
