Petroglyphs

[HarveyDarkey]

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. that one is clear

when snails are as tall as people, giant snakes will fall from the sky

[HarveyDarkey]

2. LMAO

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. This is a cool pic!

I love love love petroglyphs!

I have many pictures, but alas, they are all film.

I must do some scanning...

[HarveyDarkey]

4. This is film, early 1980's

[Sheepshank]

5. Southern Utah Petroglyphs

taken with an older p&s....

From the same area near Paragonah

[HarveyDarkey]

6. Mine were at Hovenweep (also in Utah)

[Sheepshank]

7. I have always wondered

if there was any significance to the castle battlement type designs that seem to repeated in so many petroglyph locations? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crenellation

[HarveyDarkey]

12. Well in the case of Hovenweep that may be true

Unlike Mesa Verde there are no cliffside dwellings. Towers built on the ends of canyons, many of their modern names ending in "castle".

[HarveyDarkey]

8. Not exactly petroglyphs, but near where the first was taken

[JeffR]

9. There's something very spooky about these.

[HarveyDarkey]

10. Yeah I guess, the way the photos came out

But seeing them in person it's not that way at all. I was just overwhelmed at the thought that the people who did these have been dead for many hundreds of years. Is this their legacy?

[JeffR]

11. Probably a more durable legacy than most of us will ever have.

Now I have a burning desire to put my hand prints on something...

[Sheepshank]

13. I don't know how common it is internationally...

...but I'm originally from Autralia and I've seen cave hand prints (many thousands of years old and perfectly preserved)where the "artist" had sprayed a paint like substance (presumambly from his mouth) onto a hand held against the cave walls. Th resulting stencilled image is quite powerful in it's ancient-ness.