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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Tour of the Tilted Rocks


Elephant Toes Butte  
Turtle Rock
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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These drawings were probably made by the Fremont people about 1,000 years ago. Using sharp tools, they pecked away at the dark natural stain on the rock surface- called desert varnish- to reveal the light colored sandstone beneath. Some of the designs are easily recognizable, but their meaning is not. Was this religious art, a symbolic language, or simply something created to fill idle moments? No one can be sure.

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