slgwv's photos with the keyword: Sego Canyon

Just across the canyon from the Sego Canyon rock art site, Sego Canyon, Grand County, Utah. It's in the Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation (Willis, Utah Geol. Min. Surv., Map 89, 198) and is evidently unnamed, without so much as an interpretive sign. I'm sure, tho, the local Native Americans had stories about it--I find it hard to imagine the proximity of the rock art is a coincidence!

Unnamed rock arch in sandstone directly across the road from the Sego Rock Art site. I'm sure the Native Americans had stories about it--I find it hard to believe the proximity of the rock art is a coincidence!--but there's not so much as an interpretive sign. The arch is in Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, according to the mapping of Willis (Provisional Geologic Map of the Sego Canyon Quadrangle, Grand County, Utah, Utah Geol. Min. Surv. Map 89, 1986). You can walk up the drainage to directly below the arch (inset).

Utah, in the eponymous canyon north of Thompson Springs. This is one of the most spectacular preserved Native American rock-art sites in the southwest. The pictographs (painted) and petroglyphs (chipped/carved) span thousands of years, from perhaps >4000 BCE to contact, and embrace three different styles. This panel shows the oldest, the so-called Barrier Canyon style, with pictographs of humanoid forms with tapering bodies and commonly hollow eyes. The inserts show more recent styles, Fremont (ca. 500-1300 CE) and Ute (>1300 CE; the Ute live in the area to this day.) These also include animal and geometric designs, and are also often petroglyphs. Alas, contemporary vandalism is also present. I'm going ahead and giving the location, however, because it's shown on highway maps and has a large BLM (Bureau of Land Management) interpretive site.

A petroglph panel to the left of the Barrier Canyon pictographs. I don't know whether these are mostly Fremont or Ute styles.

More pictographs, to the left of the petroglyph panel. The presence of animal and geometric forms suggests these are Fremont and/or Ute styles.