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Petroglyphs in Utah

Nearly a thousand years ago natives inhabited the lower elevations around the San Francisco Peaks of Arizona. In an area so dry it would seem impossible to live, they built pueblos, harvested rainwater, grew crops and raised families. Today the remnants of their villages dot the landscape along with their other artifacts. These petroglyphs were found on Magnetic Mesa in Wupatki National Monument near Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Petroglyphs written by the Hopi Indians at Parowan Gap, Utah. Symbols include clan signs and directional references. It is believed that the Fremont Indians wrote most of the petroglyphs.

Wadi Rum is a desert valley cut into the sandstone and granite cliffs in southern Jordan. Known also as the Valley of the Moon it has been inhabited since prehistoric times (witnessed by the petroglyph inscriptions) and by semi nomadic tribes since the Nabataeans but is best known for its association with T E Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - who based himself here to encourage the Arab Revolt and to attack Turkish Forces of the Ottoman Empire during WW1. He was later immortalized by the film of the same name, made in 1962 by David Lean. Today the only inhabitants are Bedouin tribes and transient tourists.

Eastern (upstream) Section (mostly geometric/abstract designs). Close-up of geometric (abstract) engraving. Driekopseiland (Island) is a rock engraving site located in the bed of the Riet River near Plooysburg, close to Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. At this site, nearly 4,000 exposed individual engravings are carved into glaciated basement rock. It is estimated that the petroglyphs were probably engraved in two distinct periods, the first about 2500 years ago, and the latter more or less 1000 years ago. The engravings at Driekopseiland are associated with cultural rituals and more specifically with puberty rites,

Indigenous culture

Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Hail Province, Jubbah. Ancient petroglyph of ostriches and other animals at the Jubbah rock art site at Ob Sinman Mountain.

The Three Rivers Petroglyphs are examples of prehistoric Jonada Mogollon rock art found on a basaltic ridge in New Mexico. There are over 21,000 petroglyphs in the area.

One of the rocks in Petroglyph National monument, NM

Newspaper Rock carved rock historical monument with a large collection of petroglyphs Utah USA

Culturally significant to the Southwest Indian culture, the images included within the Sand Hill Petroglyph Panels were created durning the Glen Canyon Linear time period

Petroglyphs just outside of Albuquerque in a National Monument

A large petroglyph panel tells ancient stories

Some talmudic rock carvings depicting a battle. The drawings are on a rock-face in Saudi Arabia

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, Oct 1, 2021: designs and symbols carved on Volcanic Rocks in Petroglyph National Monument.

Jabal Umm Sanman ancient rock art showing camels near Jubbah, Saudi Arabia. Rock Art in the Hail Region UNESCO World Heritage Site.

High on a cliff face, “intestine man” Barrier Canyon style pictographs remain in sandstone cliffs on public lands just outside Canyonlands National Park in Moab, Utah.

Petroglyph of shamans (medicine men) performing a trance dance. Wildebeest Kuil is a rocky hill not far from Kimberley/Barkley West in the Northern Cape Province. At this rocky hill more than 200 petroglyphs depicting representational and abstract images can be found. The creators were people from San and Khoe origin.

Ancient bushmen rock engravings (petroglyphs) at Twyfelfontain in Damaraland, Namibia

Newspaper Rock shows visitors a prolific amount of incised petrologyphs in a valley in the Petrified Forest National Park

Petroglyphs in the Nevada desert.

Three Rivers Petroglyph Site New Mexico

Petroglyphs in a desert landscape in the Valley of Fire State Park near Moapa Nevada

Rock Paintings At The La Altagracia Dominican Republic.

Old Indian inscriptions or petroglyphs in New Mexico

Petroglyphs carved into a bolder by native Americans

Rock carvings depicting characters and figures dating back to the talmudic period. Photographed in the desert close to Taima and Tabuck in Saudi Arabia

Petrolgyphs in Canyonlands National Park

Nevada, USA.

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