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Lizard Petroglyphs – Cub Creek – Dinosaur National Monument

Lizard Petroglyphs - Cub Creek - Dinosaur National Monument

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Lizard Petroglyphs Cub Creek – Dinosaur National Monument.

The petroglyphs of Cub Creek were made by the Fremont Indians about a thousand years ago. The Fremont Indians derive their name from the Fremont River, which flows most prominently through Capitol Reef National Park. The river itself derives its name from John Charles Fremont, an American explorer. The Fremont culture covered most of Utah, and parts of Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado. It was also contemporaneous with the Ancestral Puebloan cultures that built Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde.

Sego Canyon Shaman Pictograph – Utah

This Sego Canyon Pictograph Panel – is an example of the Barrier Canyon Style (BCS) of prehistoric native american art. The BCS paintings were left by Archaic hunters/gatherers of the American Southwest, and are found predominately in Utah, Colorado and Arizona, in the Colorado Plateau region.

Sego Canyon Shaman Pictograph - Utah

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Sunrise on Sky Rock Petroglyph and Sierra Nevada Mountains – Bishop, California

Sunrise on Sky Rock Petroglyph and Sierra Nevada Mountains - Bishop, California

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The approach of sunrise at Sky Rock Petroglyph and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, near Bishop, California. The petroglyphs in this region appear largely in a volcanic tableland, that is in the vicinity of Fish Slough an area designated as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC), for the marsh’s rich environment, which supports a variety of plant and animal life, some unique to the area. It was this abundance of life and water resources in a largely remote, and barren place, that attracted the ancestors of the Paiute and Shoshone native american tribes that have historically lived in the region, and carved the rock art explorers to the region see today.