Three Rivers Pictograph Site
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. (Human Systems Research)
Relax. I do not have all 21,000 on this web page. I did not even take pictures of a tenth of them. The state park in New Mexico on the edge of the Tularosa Basin does include most of the panels, however. These glyphs are pecked into volcanic rock, and as such are not always easy to easy to distinguish. However, with the assistance of Lightroom I have been able to make them a little more apparent.
These designs fall into a number of broad categories. There are animals, geometrics, hands and faces. Animal designs include many species native to the area. There appears to be a special place or meaning to images of desert big horns. The geometrics are occasionally repeated and may be clan symbols. Also I suspect the the geometrics are also present in their pottery designs as well. Some of the face designs may indicate use by a shaman. Most of the art is fairly close to the ground so I don't see it used in any ritual other than a family or hunting group.
