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Segon Canyon Rock Art
Rock Art: 10 places to see it in the United States
by ancientartarch|March 2, 2025|Barrier Canyon Style, cave art, Fremont, geoglyph, Great Basin, Nevada, North America, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming
10 places you can appreciate rock art across the United States. The first 20,000 years of American history are written on the landscape.
The Rochester Creek Panel
Rochester Creek Petroglyph Site Video
by Stephen Alvarez|April 11, 2024|Archaic, Emery County, Fremont, Modern, Mural of America, Native American, North America, petroglyph, Rock Art, Utah
The Rochester Creek Rock Art Site is an extraordinary Fremont site in Emery County, Utah. With a story telling team of Native American descendants, land managers and archaeologists we have put together this 3 minute film that imagines the site from the point of view of Ute spiritual leader Larry Cesspooch.
Great Gallery of Horseshoe Canyon, Utah USA
Barrier Canyon Style Rock Art
by ancientartarch|December 21, 2023|Barrier Canyon Style, North America, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Rock Art Styles, Uncategorized, Utah
The Barrier Canyon Style (BCS) represents an intriguing facet of prehistoric rock art, primarily concentrated in Utah, notably flourishing within the San Rafael Swell and Canyonlands National Park regions
Esplanade Polychrome style
by Stephen Alvarez|April 2, 2022|age, Archaic, Arizona, Esplanade Polychrome, Mojave County, Native American, Rock Art Styles
Esplanade Polychrome style is known from only a handful of rock art sites in Mojave County Arizona.
Pictograph panel in Buckhorn Wash
Pictograph 3D Model on the San Rafael Swell
by Stephen Alvarez|January 3, 2022|Barrier Canyon Style, Emery County, Native American, North America, pictograph, Rock Art, Rock Art Styles, Utah, Virtual Reality
Meta optimized virtual reality model of Barrier Canyon Style pictograph rock art on the San Rafael swell in Emery County Utah
Rochester Rock art Fremont Panel
Rochester Rock art panel vandalized!
by Stephen Alvarez|June 10, 2021|Barrier Canyon Style, Emery County, news, petroglyph, Rock Art, San Juan County, Utah
The Rochester Rock art panel in Utah has been vandalized
Good News for the San Rafael Swell
by Stephen Alvarez|March 5, 2019|Barrier Canyon Style, Emery County, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Utah
Buckhorn Wash Pictograph Panel on the San Rafael Swell Those of you who have been following the Ancient Art Archive's work are familiar with our efforts to document Barrier Canyon Style (BCS) artworks. BCS is one of North America's most enigmatic and evocative styles. It is known, primarily from the San Rafael Swell of Central Utah. In general conservation news has been bad in Utah for the past few years. Both Bears Ears and Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monuments were significantly reduced. However, last month a mammoth public lands bill passed both the House and Senate that will increase protections on many National Lands. Among many other things the bill adds 660,000 acres of wilderness designation to Emery County Utah, home of much of the San Rafael Swell. You can read more here. The Rochester Rock Art Panel in Emery County Utah
Pahranagat representational style
by Stephen Alvarez|January 29, 2019|age, Archaic, Great Basin, Mural of America, Native American, Nevada, North America, Pahranagat, petroglyph, Rock Art
Pahranagat anthropomorphic figures are unique to the Pahranagat Valley of Southern Nevada. There are two types of figures;
Barrier Canyon Rock Art, Utah
by Stephen Alvarez|January 16, 2019|2000 BP, Barrier Canyon Style, Native American, San Juan County, Utah
A Barrier Canyon Painting in Southern Utah
Bear Ears
by Stephen Alvarez|March 20, 2017|Bears Ears, Fremont, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, San Juan County, Utah
The Procession Panel, San Juan County Utah The Ancient Art Archive is in Utah all week scouting locations to record in the Bears Ears. For those that don't know, the Bears Ears is one of the United States newest National Monuments. Its 1.3 million acres represent some of the most inaccessible landscape in the lower 48 states. It is also a cultural treasure. There are over 100,000 archeological sites in the Monument and tens of thousands of pictographs and petroglyphs. It's a remarkable place. Thanks to everyone who has helped us get into the field this spring. Your support is vital.