Throughout the western United States, Indigenous people left signs of their culture on rock and cliff faces. Creating petroglyphs by pecking at, carving and abrading the darker outer surface of the rocks (the patina or desert varnish) these native people exposed the lighter under layer of the stone, leaving behind symbolic depictions of what was important to them. Pictographs, rather than being carved, were painted, using a ground up mixture of things like hematite and charcoal which were mixed with an organic binder. Rock art can be representational, showing human shapes, animals (like the bighorn sheep they hunted), tools they used (atlatls, bow and arrows, shields). The petroglyphs can also be more abstract in the form of curved and straight lines and shapes. The images in this video were from photographs taken in New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and California.
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Rock Art - Petroglyphs and Pictographs - Visions of the Shaman
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