Stick figure petroglyph on volcanic rock in New Mexico wilderness! The video argues that an overhang helped preserve the panel and connects its southeast orientation with Mogollon winter-sunrise viewing. It also suggests the wider face once held more art, much of which eroded over a millennium. 🪨✨
Video shows stick-figure petroglyph on pink volcanic rock in New Mexico
Key facts
- The video shows a petroglyph of a stick figure and another shape above it on pink volcanic rock in New Mexico wilderness.
- The video compares the setting with Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, where Ancestral Pueblo/Mogollon people lived and created rock art.
- An overhang sheltered the panel and helped reduce weathering.
- The video suggests that the wider rock face once carried more art, much of which eroded over more than a millennium.
- The video connects the southeast orientation with Mogollon winter-sunrise viewing; this is the presenter's interpretation, not a documented general preference established by the search results.
Sources
The Anasazi People: Ancient Onespass.lawrencehallofscience.org
... sunrise at the summery solstice. A rock painting or petroglyph, on the rock wall behind the Sun watcher, marks the precise place to stand to observe this ...
Petroglyphs & Pictographs - Chaco Culture - National Park Servicenps.gov
Petroglyphs were carved into rock faces using a variety of techniques. Rock artists used a striking stone to peck designs into the rock ...
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument - AdamMartin.SPACEadammartin.space
Signs at the trailhead detail another cave dwelling and various rock paintings (pictographs not petroglyphs). Hard to pass that up, let's take ...
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument • New Mexiconps.gov
Most of the dwellings walls are original. Some even preserve a builder's fingerprints that are over 700 years old.
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monumentwnpa.org
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is where the Ancestral Pueblo Peoples built homes within the natural caves of a rugged canyon over seven hundred years ...
Gila Cliff Dwellingsgjhikes.com
The cliff dwellings were built by the Mogollon (mah-gee-ahn) Culture in the late 1200's. The monument was established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 ...
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monumenten.wikipedia.org
The monument consists of 553 acres (2.24 km 2) and contains the remains of a Mimbres Culture community in various locations, two of which are most prominent.
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