Three Rivers Petroglyph site contains over 21,000 individual engravings. The bulk of the images were created by the Jornada Mogollon Culture between 900 and 1300 BCE. However, there are both older and younger images at the site.
Three Rivers Petroglyph site contains over 21,000 individual images in a 1.5 mile square site. It is one of the densest concentrations of rock art in the Americas. The images at Three Rivesrs come from the Archaic, Ancestral Puebloan and Apache cultures. Much of the art work is associated with the Jornada Mogollon culture. The images are also stylistically related to Mimbres pottery also found in the area. Three Rivers has a small habitation site but the population would never have been sufficient to account for the density of images.
The time span of the artwork speaks to the permanence of the place as an important site.A petroglyph of a human face at Three Rivers Petroglyph Site.A snake tailed mountain lion petroglyph under the night sky at Three Rivers Petroglyph site. Three Rivers is a Jornada Mogollon rock art site north of Alamagordo, New MexicoPetroglyphs at Three Rivers.Three Rivers Petroglyph site contains over 21,000 individual images in a 1.5 mile square site. It is one of the densest concentrations of rock art in the Americas. The images at Three Rivesrs come from the Archaic, Ancestral Puebloan and Apache cultures. Much of the art work is associated with the Jornada Mogollon culture. The images are also stylistically related to Mimbres pottery also found in the area. Three Rivers has a small habitation site but the population would never have been sufficient to account for the density of images.
The time span of the artwork speaks to the permanence of the place as an important site.
