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Rock climbers discovered this Barrier Canyon Style rock art panel in southeastern Utah decades ago (full panel not shown). Although exposed to the elements for over a 1,000 years the art is still vibrant. The central figure (~5 ft./1.5m tall) may be an animal with human legs and feet. Barrier Canyon Style art often features these human-animal mixes, which backs up the popular theory of shamanic correlations.

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Four red painted figures with white embellishments on a tan cliff wall. Two forms are human like, one is animal like, and one is a long vertical zigzag red and white snake.

I've seen coitus or birthing scenes, they're rare, but this is the first time I've seen them side-by-side like this. It makes clear the cause and effect. The wavy glyph on the right is much longer than it looks here, probably about ten times the length shown. Ancestral Puebloan, Southeastern Utah.

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Simple pecked figures with two figures embracing next to a single figure with legs spread and a baby figure between her legs. A lightly pecked serpentine form comes in from the right side and ends about the mother figure.

Seeing rock art I haven't seen before is always a highlight for me, so I was happy to finally see this one. Some archaeologist refer to this figure as a wading bird but it is generally known as the Crane Panel. Ancestral Puebloan, southeastern Utah, ~3 ft./1m tall.

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Pecked figure on brown sandstone of a standing bird with its wings spread and a circle within a circle beside it.

Around 1980, archaeologist Steven J. Manning did a rubbing of this complex but faded Fremont painting, preserving the fine detail (F.A. Barnes, Prehistoric Rock Art, Salt Lake City, UT, 1982, p. 159). The pecked snake, the three birds in the center, and the "rainbow" are figures also seen in the Barrier Canyon Style, and the glyph over the rainbow looks Abstract Geometric, suggesting multi-cultural sharing.
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Faded red rock art of anthropomorphs, zoomorphs, and various glyphs on sandstone cliff wall in upper half. Bottom half is black and white representation of the images in photograph above.

"These Barrier Canyon Style figures in Horseshoe Canyon, Utah had their faces and torsos pecked—even the dog (tallest form, ~12in/30cm). Besides modern vandalism, some rock art seems to have been ritually pecked, mudded, or scrubbed, not always prehistorically. In 1980, Moab's Courthouse Wash rock art paintings were scrubbed. One theory proposes later shamanic cultures did this to weaken the images' power."
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A dog and three thin anthropomporphic figures painted in red on a sandstone wall.

This exceptional Barrier Canyon Style painting (~2000 BCE or earlier - ~400 CE) is being covered up by calcium carbonate. Most BCS anthropomorphic forms are missing arms or legs as if wearing a robe but these forms even have fingers. The companion birds and snakes are a common feature of this style. Note the birds around the headdress. These forms have been pecked on, possibly by others, more on this to follow.
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Two human-like red painted forms on a yellow rock cliff wall, one holding a snake, birds fly around the heads of the forms.

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The mudflow to the left is apparent in this frame. In the 80s I placed an 8X10 print of this Sinbad panel in U of UT library special collections. Good rock art collection there.
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I'm not sure what the significance of this one is, but I've seen a few around, and asked, and nobody else knows either. Reminds me of the Hobo Code, signs symbols & pictographs in a deliberately covert language.

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a symbol etched into a wooden railing: a pyramid divided into three segments by a T in the middle, with a dot inside each segment

Indigenous American rock art in Sego Canyon, Southeastern Utah, USA. These are “Barrier Style”, which I think means similar to pictographs in Barrier (Horseshoe) Canyon. They are thought to be very old, little is known about the people who created them, and the concepts the art represents are open to lots of interpretation.

Sony ⍺6500, APS-C focal length 19mm, exp 1/60s, f/14, ISO 250.

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Ghostly Indigenous American pictographs showing humanoid figures on a sunny day.

Rock art, pictographs and petroglyphs, over 1,000 years old. The faded red images are by the early Fremont people. The etched white figures were created hundreds of years later.
Sego Canyon near Moab.

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