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Painted Rocks

From the Bureau of Land Management website: "Painted Rocks Petroglyph Site, approximately 90 miles southwest of Phoenix, Arizona, provides visitors the opportunity to view an ancient archaeological site containing hundreds of symbolic and artistic rock etchings, or "petroglyphs," produced centuries ago by prehistoric peoples. There are also inscriptions made by people who passed through during historic times. Many well- known events in Arizona history occurred near the Petroglyph Site, including the expedition of Juan Bautista de Anza that founded San Francisco, the Mormon Battalion and the Butterfield Overland Mail."
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  • Painted Rocks, Arizona
  • Square Glyphs <span class="gg_commentarty">The glyphs aren't really painted. They're chipped out. The rocks are covered with a darker layer, which the artists chipped away.</span>
  • Lizards And Men
  • A Lizard Basks Atop A Rock Covered In Petroglyphs <span class="gg_commentary">Various themes appear again and again: square patterns, serpentine squiggles, lizards, spirals, and stick-figure men.</span>
  • Concentrics
  • Creatures Crawling Over Rock
  • Fanciful Creature <span class="gg_commentary">This one is my favorite. What is it? A quail with ears? A bird-legged rabbit?</span>
  • Another Fanciful Creature
  • Spirals And Squiggles
  • Petroglyphs <span class="gg_commentary">Here the artists have climbed under a suspended stone to work in the shade.</span>
  • Abstracts
  • Spiral Glyph
  • Covered In Glyphs
  • Covered In Glyphs, 2
  • Sunburst
  • Lizards
  • Is It A Tortoise Or A Man?
  • Sheep Or Goat Or Deer
  • The Trinity
  • Teeming Figures <span class="gg_commentary">Notice the double-outlined cross at bottom right.</span>
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