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Rock art from ancient times
rock drawings from New Mexico

 










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Paintings taken from old and sacred places in New Mexico USA

Chaco Canyon El Morro Shaman Petroglyph Park 3 Rivers

 

petroglyphs gallery
el morro - new mexico 

El Morro National Monument is located about 15 miles west of the continental divide.

 

The mesa protect a pool of water, providing relief to travelers for centuries. There is an 875-room Anasazi pueblo ruin at the top; it is named Atsinna by the nearby Zuni people, meaning "where pictures are on the rock."

 

 

These early inhabitants probably created the prehistoric petroglyphs at the base of the cliff. Inscriptions were added by numerous travelers carving their names, dates and messages... 

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...the earliest, that of Don Juan Onate, passing in 1605 on a search for the Gulf of California. This bluff was named Inscription Rock, and the monument created in 1906 to protect it.

 



 

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