Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument

Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument is a Utah state monument featuring a rock panel carved with one of the largest known collections of petroglyphs [1]. It is located in San Juan County, along Utah State Route 211 [1]. The 200-square-foot (19 m2) rock is a part of the vertical Wingate sandstone cliffs that enclose the upper end of Indian Creek Canyon, and is covered by hundreds of petroglyphs—one of the largest, best preserved and easily accessed groups in the Southwest [1]. People of the Archaic, Basketmaker, Fremont, and Ancestral Puebloan cultures carved petroglyphs on Newspaper Rock from around the beginning of the current era until about 1300 [1]. Ute, Navaho, and Anglo people have also left carvings on the rock in historic times [1]. There are over 650 rock art designs [1]. The drawings on the rock are of different animals, human figures, and symbols [1]. These carvings include pictures of deer, buffalo, and pronghorn [1].