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Albuquerque, New Mexico,  USA, Oct 1, 2021: designs and symbols carved on Volcanic Rocks in Petroglyph National Monument.
Nearly a thousand years ago natives inhabited the lower elevations around the San Francisco Peaks of Arizona. In an area so dry it would seem impossible to live, they built pueblos, harvested rainwater, grew crops and raised families. Today the remnants of their villages dot the landscape along with their other artifacts. These petroglyphs were found on Magnetic Mesa in Wupatki National Monument near Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
Eastern (upstream) Section (mostly geometric/abstract designs). Close-up of geometric (abstract) engraving. Driekopseiland (Island) is a rock engraving site located in the bed of the Riet River near Plooysburg, close to Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. At this site, nearly 4,000 exposed individual engravings are carved into glaciated basement rock. It is estimated that the petroglyphs were probably engraved in two distinct periods, the first about 2500 years ago, and the latter more or less 1000 years ago. The engravings at Driekopseiland are associated with cultural rituals and more specifically with puberty rites,
Wadi Rum is a desert valley cut into the sandstone and granite cliffs in southern Jordan. Known also as the Valley of the Moon it has been inhabited since prehistoric times (witnessed by the petroglyph inscriptions) and by semi nomadic tribes since the Nabataeans but is best known for its association with T E Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - who based himself here to encourage the Arab Revolt and to attack Turkish Forces of the Ottoman Empire during WW1. He was later immortalized by the film of the same name, made in 1962 by David Lean. Today the only inhabitants are Bedouin tribes and transient tourists.
Ancient Petroglyphs on the wall of the Step House at Mesa Verde National Park near Cortez, Colorado. Petroglyphs are a communication form used by early Puebloan and anasazi people of the Four Corners region in southwestern Colorado.
Wide Panoramic view of the Wolfberg Arch with people, Southern Cederberg Wildernis Area, Western Cape, South Africa
Indigenous culture
Ancient Native American Rock Art in Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Ground granite rock with two groups of concentric circles, Pena de Chaos petroglyphs decoration and ancestral art , Antas de Ulla, Lugo province, Galicia, Spain, set in early Bronze Age. Petroglyphs are of public free access.
Petroglyph of shamans (medicine men) performing a trance dance. Wildebeest Kuil is a rocky hill not far from Kimberley/Barkley West in the Northern Cape Province. At this rocky hill more than 200 petroglyphs depicting representational and abstract images can be found. The creators were people from San and Khoe origin.
Old Indian inscriptions or petroglyphs in New Mexico
Rock painting in caves Sablinskaya
Ancient petroglyph. Fremont Culture, Utah.
Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs, Utah
Indigenous culture
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument in Utah, USA. One of largest known collections of petroglyphs.
Rock paintings in a prehistoric cave in the Batuecas Valley, La Alberca, Salamanca
Rapa Nui. Petroglyphs on Easter Island, Chile, South America
Hand-drawn rocks (Petroglyphs) in Cholpon-Ata city, Kyrgyzstan.\nNorth of the centre is an extensive field of glacial boulders, many with pictures scratched or picked into their surfaces. Some of these petroglyphs date from the Bronze Age (about 1500 BC), but most are Saka-Usun (8th century BC to 1st century AD), Most are of long-horned ibex.
Desert cave - petroglyph
Falconry, hunting scene, man and birds of prey on the stone. VII-III cc. BC. Cholpon Ata petroglyphs, Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan
Paintings at La Cieneguilla Petroglyph Site near Santa Fe, NM. The petroglyphs were painted between circa 1400 and 1800 by Keresan-speaking Pueblo Indians.
Petroglyphs in the Valley of Fire Nevada
Petroglyphs just outside of Albuquerque in a National Monument
Petroglyphs in Nine Mile Canyon, Utah
High on a cliff face, “intestine man” Barrier Canyon style pictographs remain in sandstone cliffs on public lands just outside Canyonlands National Park in Moab, Utah.
Carnaúba dos Dantas, RN, Brazil - April 10th, 2017: Rock painting (anthropomorfic and zoomorphic) in archaeological site, hinterland of Rio Grande do Norte State, region of Seridó, northeast Brazil.
Fremont Culture rock art panels. Central Utah.
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