Native American Rock Art
In these galleries I have pulled together selections from a number of rock art sites around the American West. Many rock art traditions of the southwest and plains states are represented.
You will find I have used Lightroom to enhance the contrast of some of the photographs to make details of the glyphs more apparent. However, all figure are also shown without modification for your enjoyment.
Black Dragon Canyon Pictographs
The Black Dragon Pictographs are examples of Barrier Canyon Style Pictographs. Colocated with them are a number of pictographs which may be census or inventory data. Or not.
Buckhorn Wash Petroglyphs
The Buckhorn Wash Petroglyphs do not get near the attention of their more famous down canyon neighbors, the Barrier Canyon style panel, but they deserve serious consideration as well.
Buckhorn Wash Pictographs of Barrier Canyon Style
These classic Barrier Canyon style pictograph panels are located in the middle of the San Rafael Swell in Utah. I also highlight some petroglyphs located at the site and are very erroded.
Fremont Capitol Reef National Park Petroglyphs
Fremont pictographs (painted on rock surfaces) and petroglyphs (carved or pecked into the rock surface) depict people, animals and other shapes and forms on rock surfaces. Anthropomorphic (human-like) figures usually have trapezoidal shaped bodies with arms, legs and fingers. The figures are often elaborately decorated with headdresses, ear bobs, necklaces, clothing items and facial expressions. A wide variety of zoomorphic (animal-like) figures include bighorn sheep, deer, dogs, birds, snakes and lizards. Abstract designs, geometric shapes and handprints are also common.
Castle Gardens Native American Rock Art Site
Castle Gardens Native American Rock Art Site
Cub Creek Rock Art Panels
Cub Creek Fremont Style rock art panels in Dinosaur National Monument
Dinwoody Creek Petroglyphs
The Dinwoody Creek rock panels are type site for the Dinwoody style rock art.
Fremont Indian State Park Petroglyphs
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Head of Sinbad Pictographs
The Head of Sinbad pictographs are well preserved and among the most striking pictographs in North America. There are only two panels here but one of them, the Skeleton Shaman, is one of the most striking in North America
Legend Rock Petroglyphs
The Legend Rock petroglyph site near Thermopolis Wyoming features mostly Dinwoody style rock native American rock art. It is believed to date from about 1000 years ago.
McConkie Ranch North, Vernal Utah
Fremont rock art near Vernal Utah on the McConkie ranch. These panels are to the north, left, of the entrance station.
McKee Springs Native American Rock Art Site
McKee Springs Native American Rock Art Site
Medicine Lodge Archaeological Site
Medicine Lodge is an important archaeological site in Northern Plains archaeogy but our interest here is the rock art which is also part of the archaeological legacy of this site.
Molen Reef Pictograph Panels
These panels are on rocks dislodged from a cliff near the road from Interstate 70 to Moore Utah.
Monument Valley Tribal Park Petroglyphs
This is a very small sample of the petroglyphs to be found in Navajo country or even in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. But they are interesting and excellent examples of Anasazi practice.
Nine Mile Canyon
Nine Mile Canyon holds the largest concentration of rock art in the United States.
Parowan Gap Petroglyphs
Parowan Gap is a nationally recognized extravaganza of petroglyphs--a superb "gallery" of Native American rock art. Here one can witness what is at least a 1,000 year accumulation of art work pecked into the rock. Geometric designs, images of lizards, snakes, mountain sheep, bear claws and human figures adorn the smooth canyon walls of the pass.(Utah.com)
Pictograph Cave Montana
Human occupation of this cave in central Montana began at least 3500 years ago based on carbon dating of cultural artifacts. The pictographs are deemed to have been first panted about 2100 years ago with the last pictographs depicting guns the indians procured from Europeans.
Rochester Creek Rock Art Panels
The Rochester Rock Art panels are located on a neck of a mesa high above the confluence of Rochester and Muddy Creeks in the San Rafael Swell in Utah.
Native American Rock Art - Moab Golf Course
THe Moab Golf Course Rock Art panels are the location of some of the classic petroglyphs you may nave seen in Southwestern publication of all sort. A nice concentration of some of the best images to be found anywhere.
Sego Canyon Rock Art Site
Sego Canyon Rock Art Site contains rock art from at least 3 traditions - Barrier Canyon, Fremont and Ute
McConkie Ranch, Vernal Utah
Three Kings Panel - An example of Fremont rock art near Vernal Utah on the McConkie ranch.
Three Rivers Pictograph Site (New Mexico)
The Three Rivers Petroglyph Site contains over 21,000 rock-art designs that are mostly contemporaneous with the Jornada Mogollon (A.D. 400-1450) culture of south-central New Mexico.
Torrey Creek (Whiskey Basin) Petroglyphs
The Torrey Creek rock panels are sister site to Dinwoody style rock art found along Dinwoody Creek.