RHH's photos with the keyword: pictographs

This is Newspaper Rock, a rock covered with Indian pictographs. The rock is near the entrance to the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park in Utah.

On the road into the the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park there is an archaeological site with more than 650 petroglyphs known as Newspaper Rock. The information given at the site says: "Newspaper Rock is a petroglyph panel etched in sandstone that records approximately 2,000 years of human activity in the area. Prehistoric peoples probably from the Fremont, Anasazi, Navajo and Anglo cultures etched on the rock from B.C. time to A.D. 1300. In historic times Ute and Navaho people, as well as European Americans made their contributions. In interpreting the figures on the rock, scholars are undecided as to their meaning or have yet to decipher them. The Navajo term for the rock is 'Tse' Hone' (Rock that tells a Story). Unfortunately we do not know if the figures represent storytelling, doodling, hunting magic, clan symbols, ancient graffiti or something else. Without a true understanding of the petroglyphs, much is left for individual interpretation."

These are some of the petroglyphs on Newspaper Rock near the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park.

These Indian pictographs or petroglyphs in Saguaro National Park are accessible from the Golden Gate Road. There is a short hike from the parking area at Signal Hill to the rocks on which they are found.

These petroglyphs are in the Ruincon Mountains area of Saguaro National Park at Signal Hill along the Golden Gate Road.

Photographed near the Rio Grande in the Hot Springs area of Big Bend these Indian pictographs are easily accessible though some of them have been damaged. What they represent I have no idea.