Ancient Petroglyphs - A focus point in the environment (Part 1 of 2)

A Petroglyph is worth 1000 words

Jan 23, 2014

This is one of the most famous petroglyphs in North America and rightfully so. It is unique in many ways. To start with, it’s an action shot with two characters inter-acting with each other. This alone puts it in a rare and unique category of petroglyphs, and makes it worth trying to understand all that we can read from it.
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Ancient Native American Vandalized Petroglyphs in the Mojave Desert

A short discussion on vandalism of petroglyphs done in ancient times and two of the basic means of making petroglyphs pecking and scratching.
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Ancient Petroglyphs - A focus point in the environment (Part 2 of 2)

Sometimes the environment has changed greatly since the time these petroglyphs were made. So it is, from these glyphs we can get some understanding of what the environment used to be, a long time ago.
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Colored Petroglyphs in the Mojave Desert

A discussion on the use of color by the ancient people that made the great basin style petroglyphs. And the possible meaning that color would've added to these symbols, and our loss as these colors are washed away by time and the elements.
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Finding meaning in Petroglyphs

Understanding petroglyphs in a way that would've been practical and useful to the ancient hunter gatherers that made them. And thereby giving modern people a practical and useful insight to the the landscape and ancient ways.
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Great Basin Style Petroglyphs

This is a short discussion on the time and age of the great basin style petroglyphs. In a place where the ancient environment is still intact, such that the desert bighorn sheep are still present.
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Petroglyphs of the Coso Mountains

Sep 29, 2012

The Coso Mountain petroglyphs are the last remnant of a society that started thousands of years ago and lived almost to our present time. And through the artistry and symbolism of these petroglyphs we know that it was a hunter gather society that was based on hunting desert bighorn sheep.
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Treasure in the desert: Petroglyphs

Dec 30, 2011

The desert is full of all kinds of treasures, gold, silver, and other rare elements. Even water in the desert can be considered a treasure and the source of immense wealth. One of the greatest treasures that we have in the desert is art, and we can truly call this art a treasure.
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Tracking: A Blueprint for Learning How

Jack Kearney

In this book the reader will find that every trip into the wilderness can be made into a lesson on tracking and reading sign; and once somebody has learned to do some tracking, it opens up a whole new world to them.

This book seems to have as accurate a title as a book ever could. When I first read this book, I thought I was pretty good at tracking, but after reading this I began to use the book's lesson plan to learn a lot more.

https://www.amazon.com/Tracking-Blueprint-Learning-Jack-Kearney/dp/0965888118

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Ancient Petroglyphs - A focus point in the environment (Part 1 of 2)

A Petroglyph is worth 1000 words

Ancient Native American Vandalized Petroglyphs in the Mojave Desert

Ancient Petroglyphs - A focus point in the environment (Part 2 of 2)

Colored Petroglyphs in the Mojave Desert

Finding meaning in Petroglyphs

Great Basin Style Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs of the Coso Mountains

Treasure in the desert: Petroglyphs

Chronology of Petroglyphs at Blue Sun Shaman Cave, Indian Hills

Tracking: A Blueprint for Learning How