Ranger Sarah checks out the Pictographs at an unnamed and unmarked location along Colorado Highway 139, within the Canyon Pintado National Historic District.
— at Canyon Pintado National Historic District, Colorado.
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Ranger Sarah reads the sign which reminds everyone that Pictograph sites are protected by law.
— at Canyon Pintado National Historic District, Colorado.
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Ranger Sarah follows a trail towards the pictographs see spotted from the highway.
— at Canyon Pintado National Historic District, Colorado.
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Ranger Sarah is going through this BLM Gate to check out some Pictographs see spotted while driving down Colorado Highway 139 in the Canyon Pintado National Historic District. No signage was along the highway for this spot.
— at Canyon Pintado National Historic District, Colorado.
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I cleaned up some damage to this scene before I printed and hung it on my wall. I like the three happy sheep, the anthro with its necklace and quirky face, and the crescent moon. Ancestral Puebloan.
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Ancestral Puebloan handprints and an anthropomorphic form, ~700+ years old. Navajo Nation, Arizona.
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The Archaic period Snake-in-Mouth rock art panel, believed to be at least 1,500 years old. The form on the hand is possibly a bird, on the left rain falls from a cloud. Note the three snakes. Calcium Carbonate has flowed down on the right side covering part of the panel. The blue-green pigment is unusual in Barrier Canon Style rock art and there may have been one or more other pigments that have faded away.
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Decades ago someone gave me a topo map of the Dollhouse area in Canyonlands with a slew of Barrier Canyon Style rock art sites shown. Sadly, most panels were faded with this one being the best in the area. Looking closely one can still make out embellishments on the heads and torsos. Most interesting to me are the zoomorphic lizard-like "familiars" at the bottom left of each anthropomorph. It's common to see familiars in BCS rock art but for each form to have an identical one is unusual.
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The Rochester panel is a favorite of many for the numerous and exceptionally imaginative forms on it. Per Sally J. Cole, Legacy on Stone, Boulder, CO, 2009, p. 77, "Petroglyphs attributed to Archaic (Barrier Canyon Style), Fremont, and protohistoric/historic Ute groups." A section I love is the upper left with the lizards, bear, and the "bird in a swing" (my description). The rainbow is likely Fremont. The areas in white are where collectors took away part of the panel, note the section in the middle where someone tried to cut out a zoomorph.
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