There, hidden in the shifting sands, unique red rock formations, and arid canyons, are carvings dating back over 12,000 years ...

They also will enjoy close-up views of the mountains around them and the neighboring Little Red Rock area, which contains petroglyphs and pictographs that are said to be thousands of years old.

Among the multi-colored rocks are arches, hoodoos, and canyons both grand and narrow, where Ancestral Puebloan structures and petroglyphs are safely tucked. In red rock country the Earth’s crust ...

Jeffers Petroglyphs is part of the Red Rock Ridge, which rises some 100 to 300 feet above the landscape in northeast Cottonwood County and dominates the surrounding terrain. Twenty-three miles ...

The red rocks bear evidence of both petroglyphs and rock paintings. Utah State University geologist Joel Pederson told Smithsonian Magazine that the painted figures in Horseshoe Canyon's famous ...

Often, she said, people vandalize the petroglyphs, which are the indigenous inscriptions in the rocks. She thanked the rangers at Red Rock for taking care of the land. “The staff here has been ...

a tree swallow and a red-winged blackbird that aren’t going anywhere. New York artist Kevin Sudeith has been creating petroglyphs, or rock carvings, on Phippsburg Land Trust properties for the ...

Petroglyphs are hard puzzles to decipher. Despite a wealth of knowledge, historians and archaeologists can’t always put the whole picture together. The mysterious Dighton Rock is a classic example.