Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve

The Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve, formerly known as the Deer Valley Rock Art Center, is a 47-acre nature preserve featuring over 1500 Hohokam, Patayan, and Archaic petroglyphs visible on 500 basalt boulders in the Deer Valley area of Phoenix, Arizona [1]. The petroglyphs are between 500 and 5,000 years old [1]. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and it was also listed with the Phoenix Points of Pride [1]. The Museum of Northern Arizona, in a project directed by J. Simon Bruder, conducted extensive fieldwork and discovered a wide variety of features and artifacts [1]. Their fieldwork lasted three months and an archaeological report was published [1].