Album Rock Art and Ruins

[HomerJ]

Signal Hill Spiral by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

http://adventr.co/2017/03/saguaro-national-park/

I really like this one with the cactus in the background!

 

[SKLund]

Ancient hands


Negative print by Deadeye008, on Flickr

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This one looks very familiar. A certain cave in Comb Ridge perhaps?

 

[IntrepidXJ]

Virgin Spring Pictographs by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

http://adventr.co/2017/04/little-grand-canyon/

 

[IntrepidXJ]

Red & Yellow Panel by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

http://adventr.co/2017/04/little-grand-canyon/

 

[IntrepidXJ]

Big Sheep Panel by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

http://adventr.co/2017/04/windy-weekend-in-the-swell/

 

[IntrepidXJ]

Buffalo Panel by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

http://adventr.co/2017/04/jones-hole/

 

[IntrepidXJ]

Bear Paw Print Boulder by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

http://adventr.co/2017/04/lower-sevenmile-canyon/

 

[Yvonne]

on my road trip to Tucson last weekend I stopped at Wupatki National Monument and visited the Pueblo ruins

Entry Way

 

[Scott Chandler]

The Five Faces. It is hard to believe that if these were a quarter mile further east they wouldn't be protected in Canyonlands National Park and instead be protected in the threatened Bears Ears National Monument...

 

[IntrepidXJ]

Mussentuchit Petroglyphs by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

http://adventr.co/2017/05/sulphur-creek-pleasant-creek/

 

[b.stark]

One of the figures at the Harvest Scene.

 

[Udink]

One of the figures at the Harvest Scene.

That's my favorite figure on the entire panel.

 

[b.stark]

The detail on it is really amazing. A lot of the panel has pretty good detail, really, but this one's especially good.

 

[Scott Chandler]

Some from Hovenweep last weekend. It is crazy how different the structures here are compared to those of Bears Ears and Canyonlands despite the relative proximity.



Then there is the building on boulders. Why do that!?!?


Then there was this shot, which I find really powerful. It really speaks to why I think the "smallest area possible" is a lame excuse to delist Bears Ears. Hovenweep is tiny and within its boundaries are the ruins of structures being reclaimed by the desert, who is to say how many are not in the monument and not protected because they aren't grand enough to have been included in its borders? Should native history be protected even if it has been weathered by the ages? My opinion is yes, but that is me.

 

[Scott Chandler]

I went to Mesa Verde this past set of days off. As much as I dislike the touristy aspect of the place, the dwellings truly are out of this world.

Long House


Balcony House (with the namesake right there)


And Cliff Palace, one of, if not the, largest cliff dwellings in the western hemisphere (quoted from a ranger.)

 

[George_Washington_Hayduke]

 

[Scott Chandler]

The layers really get to me. And to believe they go a few layers back into the darkness. BIG

 

[b.stark]

More Harvest Scene

 

[IntrepidXJ]

Cedar Mesa Temple by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

http://adventr.co/2017/06/cedar-mesa-ruins/

 

[IntrepidXJ]

Blue Spiral Ruins by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

http://adventr.co/2017/06/cedar-mesa-ruins/