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New Mexico: Petroglyphs National Monument

5 images Created 1 Jun 2014

Ancestral Puebloan people chipped various figures into the desert varnish (oxidized surface) of 200,000-year-old volcanic basalt rock, here in Boca Negra Canyon, in Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Archeologists estimate the 23,000 petroglyphs in the monument were created between 1000 BC and AD 1700.

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  • Ancestral Puebloan people chipped a macaw bird figure into the desert varnish (oxidized surface) of 200,000-year-old volcanic basalt rock, seen today on the Macaw Trail in Boca Negra Canyon, in Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.  Archeologists describe the image as made in the Rio Grande style, which developed around AD 1300. Petroglyph National Monument lies 1200 miles (via modern road) northwest of the natural range of the Scarlet Macaw in the tropical lowlands of eastern Mexico. Macaw remains unearthed at many sites (such as Wupatki, Arizona) in southwest USA indicate a Pre-Columbian trade network that connected to southeastern Mexico.
    1403NM-0755_macaw_Petroglyph-NM.jpg
  • Ancestral Puebloan people chipped this figure into the desert varnish (oxidized surface) of 200,000-year-old volcanic basalt rock, here on the Cliff Base Trail, in Boca Negra Canyon, in Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Archeologists estimate the 23,000 petroglyphs in the monument were created between 1000 BC and AD 1700.
    1403NM-0766_Petroglyph-NM.jpg
  • Ancestral Puebloan people chipped human figures, animals, and shapes into the desert varnish (oxidized surface) of 200,000-year-old volcanic basalt rock, here on the Mesa Point Trail, in Boca Negra Canyon, in Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Archeologists estimate the 23,000 petroglyphs in the monument were created between 1000 BC and AD 1700.
    1403NM-0736_Petroglyph-NM.jpg
  • Ancestral Puebloan people chipped figures and shapes into the desert varnish (oxidized surface) of 200,000-year-old volcanic basalt rock, here on the Mesa Point Trail, in Boca Negra Canyon, in Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Archeologists estimate the 23,000 petroglyphs in the monument were created between 1000 BC and AD 1700.
    1403NM-0743_Petroglyph-NM.jpg
  • Ancestral Puebloan people chipped various figures into the desert varnish (oxidized surface) of 200,000-year-old volcanic basalt rock, here on the Cliff Base Trail, in Boca Negra Canyon, in Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.  Archeologists estimate the 23,000 petroglyphs in the monument were created between 1000 BC and AD 1700.
    1403NM-0764_Petroglyph-NM.jpg
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