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More than 6,000 images have been pecked, engraved, or abraded into the desert varnish or patina that forms on basalt rocks with time and weathering. The Coso Range Canyons contain the highest concentration of rock art in the Western Hemisphere. Now here’s something new to me: one of the largest collections of petroglyphs in the US is on a military installation in California, and only one site, Little Petroglyph Canyon, is open to the public - and that is on a very limited basis:Ĭoncentrated in secluded canyons of the volcanic Coso Range on the test ranges of the Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, Calif., are thousands of visual reminders of people who, thousands of years ago, hunted and gathered their food in this high desert. You can also see the head and arms of a figure, and on the bottom right, a possible Katsina clan symbol. Notice the boxy spiral shape? This likely represents a sipapu, the place where Pueblo people believe they emerged from the earth (believed to be near the Grand Canyon). The following is from the National Park Service’s Mesa Verde website and describes the small image to the right:Īccording to one Hopi elder, this petroglyph, found on Mesa Verde’s Petroglyph Point Trail, may tell the story of two clans (the Mountain Sheep Clan and the Eagle Clan) separating from other people and returning to their place of origin. McKee Springs Petroglyph, Dinosaur National Monument, Utah & Colorado Who Was Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother?.The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963.Political Cartoons from the Early 20th Century: Not Much Has Changed.Beer Can Bungalows: "Garbage Warrior" Michael Reynolds' First Earthships.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Catalogue.