Book Cliffs Rock Art

[IntrepidXJ]

Saturday, December 18, 2010

On Saturday morning I was headed to Moab in search of some more rock art, but on my way there I made a short detour into the Book Cliffs to find a few pictograph panels. Here's a few photos from the Book Cliffs.

http://myxj.net/g2/d/183355-2/IMG_1226.jpg

http://myxj.net/g2/d/183361-2/IMG_1235.jpg

Yellow Horse
http://myxj.net/g2/d/183310-2/IMG_1248.jpg

http://myxj.net/g2/d/183306-2/IMG_1242.jpg

http://myxj.net/g2/d/183313-2/IMG_1253.jpg

http://myxj.net/g2/d/183316-2/IMG_1257.jpg

http://myxj.net/g2/d/183322-2/IMG_1269.jpg

[IntrepidXJ]

http://myxj.net/g2/d/183328-2/IMG_1305.jpg

http://myxj.net/g2/d/183337-2/IMG_1371.jpg

http://myxj.net/g2/d/183343-2/IMG_1410.jpg

That's not noise in this photo, it was snowing
http://myxj.net/g2/d/183346-2/IMG_1482.jpg

http://myxj.net/g2/d/183349-2/IMG_1487.jpg

http://myxj.net/g2/d/183352-2/IMG_1497.jpg

I'll need to return to this canyon in the summer when the roads are not covered in snow....

[bowjunkie]

nice I have a few photos from there as well !:clap:

[Cave Dawg]

One of my favorite panels. And hardly any bullet holes!

[accadacca]

Those are sweet man! :afro:

[ibenick]

Dang. You've got the rock art going on. Nice work.

Nice! They are quite interesting panels. They have been debating about the styles here for awhile now. They were originally labeled as non-typical Ute, but i believe Schaafsma labeled them Shoshone which is a style i'm not familiar with. I can say though they do not look Ute, and photos #8 and #11 are clearly Barrier Canyon Style (which really no one is debating about). Also photo #6 is a typical PLM (Parallel Line Motif) Barrier Canyon anthropomorph, but the surrounding petroglyphs aren't as likely to be B.C.S yet the patina is matching. So likely it was the Fremont or some other tribe copying a PLM figure they had seen elsewhere or something to that aspect.