Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Amy's Sightseeing

Amy visited Petrogylph National Monument today which is near Albuquerque. A petroglyph is a stone carving made by a prehistoric person. Here is the description from the Monument's website.

Petroglyph National Monument protects one of the largest petroglyph sites in North America, featuring designs and symbols carved onto volcanic rocks by Native Americans and Spanish settlers 400 to 700 years ago. These images are a valuable record of cultural expression and hold profound spiritual significance for contemporary Native Americans and for the descendants of the early Spanish settlers.

And here's her photo:
 
and some more just arrived:



 

1 comment:

Mary Mc said...

love the pictures. I enlarged the sign to read it - and I love the idea of desert varnish as a term for oxidation. Don't know why, but I thought petroglyphs were much older, even prehistoric. Nice to learn something new!