This site is perched in a steep draw, close to good water sources. As such, there are plentiful signs of habitation scattered among the jumble of boulders in the vicinity.
“Circle Obelisk” Petroglyphs
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Monthly Archives: January 2015
“Show of Hands” Pictographs
This site is north of a small creek and has pictographs on three different concave cliff faces. The majority of elements are on a south-facing cliff, while the rest are on two side walls of a small alcove.
“Atomic Man” Pictographs
This pictograph site consists of an elaborate, if faded, main panel, and a secondary panel containing some pictographs and petroglyphs.
I have my doubts about the authenticity of parts of this site, both because of its location in a region famous for filming Westerns, and because the subject matter of the more elaborate panel reads like a Western retelling or interpretation of what pictographs may have been like — an interpretive depiction of a mysterious tale, told in symbolism.
That said, this is only my opinion, and some features of the site I will discuss in this entry argue against this interpretation.