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Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

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Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

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Petroglyphs at Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park, high above Santa Barbara, California

Petroglyphs at Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park, high above Sa...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The walls of a single small cave carved from towering sandstone boulders contain some of the finest remaining rock art created by Chumash Native Americans... More

A cove where ancient civilizations' petroglyphs (rock engravings) have been discovered on the JE Canyon Ranch, a former working cattle ranch turned 50,000-acre conservation laboratory for the Nature Conservancy, which bought the little-known but scenery-and-biodiversity-rich site in 2015

A cove where ancient civilizations' petroglyphs (rock engravings) have...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Especially unknown to the outside world, including even most Coloradans, is the ranch's steep, stunning Purgatoire (sometimes called P... More

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of Theba in Maricopa County, Arizona. More than 800 images attributed to the Hohokam people have been found among weathered basalt boulders overlaying a granite outcrop in the area

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of T...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

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Jeffers Petroglyphs, Delton Township, Jeffers, Cottonwood County, MN

Jeffers Petroglyphs, Delton Township, Jeffers, Cottonwood County, MN

Survey number: HABS MN-109 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petroglyphs created by Puebloan peoples between 1250 and 1380 A.D. in what is now called the Petrified Forest, part of a U.S. national park near Holbrook in Arizona's remote Navajo and Apache counties

Petroglyphs created by Puebloan peoples between 1250 and 1380 A.D. in ...

The park is replete with fossils, especially fallen trees, or parts of them, that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The park's splendors, which now include colorful badlands called... More

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of Theba in Maricopa County, Arizona. More than 800 images attributed to the Hohokam people have been found among weathered basalt boulders overlaying a granite outcrop in the area

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of T...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

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Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petroglyphs at Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park, high above Santa Barbara, California

Petroglyphs at Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park, high above Sa...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The walls of a single small cave carved from towering sandstone boulders contain some of the finest remaining rock art created by Chumash Native Americans... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rock carving at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of Theba in Maricopa County, Arizona. More than 800 images attributed to the Hohokam people have been found among weathered basalt boulders overlaying a granite outcrop in the area

Rock carving at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of Th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

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Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

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This prehistoric aboriginal art petroglyph shows carved footprints and the form of a snake. It was taken from a site in western Colbert County and is now on permanent display at the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, Alabama

This prehistoric aboriginal art petroglyph shows carved footprints and...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Petroglyphs created by Puebloan peoples between 1250 and 1380 A.D. in what is now called the Petrified Forest, part of a U.S. national park near Holbrook in Arizona's remote Navajo and Apache counties

Petroglyphs created by Puebloan peoples between 1250 and 1380 A.D. in ...

The park is replete with fossils, especially fallen trees, or parts of them, that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The park's splendors, which now include colorful badlands called... More

Petroglyphs created by early indigenous peoples in the Petrified Forest, now part of a U.S. national park near Holbrook in Arizona's remote Navajo and Apache counties

Petroglyphs created by early indigenous peoples in the Petrified Fores...

The park is replete with fossils, especially fallen trees, or parts of them, that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The park's splendors, which now include colorful badlands called... More

Jeffers Petroglyphs, Delton Township, Jeffers, Cottonwood County, MN

Jeffers Petroglyphs, Delton Township, Jeffers, Cottonwood County, MN

Survey number: HABS MN-109 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of Theba in Maricopa County, Arizona. More than 800 images attributed to the Hohokam people have been found among weathered basalt boulders overlaying a granite outcrop in the area

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of T...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jeffers Petroglyphs, Delton Township, Jeffers, Cottonwood County, MN

Jeffers Petroglyphs, Delton Township, Jeffers, Cottonwood County, MN

Survey number: HABS MN-109 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of Theba in Maricopa County, Arizona. More than 800 images attributed to the Hohokam people have been found among weathered basalt boulders overlaying a granite outcrop in the area

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of T...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

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Jeffers Petroglyphs, Delton Township, Jeffers, Cottonwood County, MN

Jeffers Petroglyphs, Delton Township, Jeffers, Cottonwood County, MN

Survey number: HABS MN-109 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of petroglyphs, the red markings including the figure of a deer, drawn on a rock wall by ancient peoples in what is now Grand Canyon National Park, which protects much of the eastern part of the steep-sided and winding gorge carved by the Colorado River across northern in Arizona. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles wide, and in spots is more than a mile deep

View of petroglyphs, the red markings including the figure of a deer, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

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Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jeffers Petroglyphs, Delton Township, Jeffers, Cottonwood County, MN

Jeffers Petroglyphs, Delton Township, Jeffers, Cottonwood County, MN

Survey number: HABS MN-109 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indian Petroglyphs, Adrian, St. John, VI

Indian Petroglyphs, Adrian, St. John, VI

Survey number: HABS VI-76 Public domain photograph of decorated panel, decor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of Theba in Maricopa County, Arizona. More than 800 images attributed to the Hohokam people have been found among weathered basalt boulders overlaying a granite outcrop in the area

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of T...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Petroglyphs at Utah's Newspaper Rock

Carol M. Highsmith - Petroglyphs at Utah's Newspaper Rock

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Rocky shelter in an area where ancient petroglyphs have been identified in Purgatoire Canyon, a spectacular rocky gorge in the middle of an otherwise flat prairie at JE Canyon Ranch, a former working cattle ranch purchased in 2015 by the Nature Conservancy as a research and preservation resource in southeastern Colorado's Las Animas County

Rocky shelter in an area where ancient petroglyphs have been identifie...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A petroglyph mounted outside Taliesin West, renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school in the desert outside Scottsdale, Arizona, from 1937 until his death in 1959

A petroglyph mounted outside Taliesin West, renowned architect Frank L...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Today Taliesin West is the main campus of the School of Architecture at Taliesin and houses the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Open to... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petroglyphs created by Puebloan peoples between 1250 and 1380 A.D. in what is now called the Petrified Forest, part of a U.S. national park near Holbrook in Arizona's remote Navajo and Apache counties

Petroglyphs created by Puebloan peoples between 1250 and 1380 A.D. in ...

The park is replete with fossils, especially fallen trees, or parts of them, that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The park's splendors, which now include colorful badlands called... More

Petroglyph and pool at Taliesin West, renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school in the desert outside Scottsdale, Arizona, from 1937 until his death in 1959

Petroglyph and pool at Taliesin West, renowned architect Frank Lloyd W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Today Taliesin West is the main campus of the School of Architecture at Taliesin and houses the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Open to... More

A cove where ancient civilizations' petroglyphs (rock engravings) have been discovered on the JE Canyon Ranch, a former working cattle ranch turned 50,000-acre conservation laboratory for the Nature Conservancy, which bought the little-known but scenery-and-biodiversity-rich site in 2015

A cove where ancient civilizations' petroglyphs (rock engravings) have...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Especially unknown to the outside world, including even most Coloradans, is the ranch's steep, stunning Purgatoire (sometimes called P... More

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of Theba in Maricopa County, Arizona. More than 800 images attributed to the Hohokam people have been found among weathered basalt boulders overlaying a granite outcrop in the area

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of T...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of Theba in Maricopa County, Arizona. More than 800 images attributed to the Hohokam people have been found among weathered basalt boulders overlaying a granite outcrop in the area

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of T...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rocky ridge in Purgatoire Canyon, a spectacular rocky gorge in the middle of an otherwise flat prairie at JE Canyon Ranch, a former working cattle ranch purchased in 2015 by the Nature Conservancy as a research and preservation resource in southeastern Colorado's Las Animas County

Rocky ridge in Purgatoire Canyon, a spectacular rocky gorge in the mid...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Small petroglyph, or rock-art drawing, at Casa Malpais, an archaeological site hidden from easy view in the White Mountains of Arizona, near Springerville

Small petroglyph, or rock-art drawing, at Casa Malpais, an archaeologi...

The site includes a great kiva, ancient stairways, and rock art of ancient Pueblo Peoples. The culture's rock dwellings were built beginning around 1260 and were inhabited until about 1400, making this one of t... More

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of Theba in Maricopa County, Arizona. More than 800 images attributed to the Hohokam people have been found among weathered basalt boulders overlaying a granite outcrop in the area

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of T...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.