15 Must See Petroglyph & Pictograph Sites In The USA
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- In 2021, we traveled across the United States, visiting archeological sites around the country. These are the 15 best ancient rock art sites that we saw on our adventure. Enjoy!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:40 Hemet Maze Stone
2:36 Celebration Park & Map Rock
3:58 Judaculla Rock, North Carolina
4:50 Track Rock Gap, Georgia
5:30 Seminole Canyon, Texas
6:29 Hueco Tanks, Texas
7:42 Los Lunas Decalogue Stone, New Mexico
8:41 Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico
10:00 Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
10:46 Mesa Verde, Colorado
11:37 Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
12:15 V Bar V, Arizona
13:21 Palatki Heritage Site, Arizona
14:27 Joshua Tree, California
15:25 Chalfant Valley Petroglyphs, California
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Useful LINKS on these 15 must see sites:
Hemet Maze Stone, California
www.weirdca.com/location.php?l...
www.ancient-origins.net/ancie...
Celebration Park & Map Rock Petroglyphs
www.canyonco.org/project/cele...
www.richardalanhannon.com/los...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_Roc...
www.atlasobscura.com/places/m...
Judaculla Rock, North Carolina
blueridgeheritagetrail.com/ex...
www.romanticasheville.com/jud...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judacul...
www.ncdcr.gov/blog/2016/03/27...
Track Rock Gap, Georgia
www.nationalforests.org/blog/...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_Rock
apalacheresearch.com/2019/05/...
Seminole Canyon, Texas
tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/se...
www.nps.gov/amis/learn/histor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminol...
www.tshaonline.org/handbook/e...
Hueco Tanks, Texas
texasbeyondhistory.net/hueco/...
www.texasbeyondhistory.net/hueco/
tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/hu...
www.nps.gov/places/gumo_hueco...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hueco_T...
sweptawaytoday.com/2020/04/27...
Los Lunas Decalogue Stone, New Mexico
oneclimbs.com/2011/01/10/a-vi...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Lun...
www.asc.ohio-state.edu/mccull...
historydaily.org/the-ten-comm...
Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico
www.nps.gov/petr/index.htm
www.nationalparks.org/connect...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrogl...
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
www.downthetrail.com/new-mexi...
pseudoarchaeology.leadr.msu.ed...
phys.org/news/2017-08-chaco-c...
www.exploratorium.edu/chaco/H...
• Fajada Butte, Sun Dagger
Mesa Verde, Colorado
www.nps.gov/places/place-ppt-...
www.nps.gov/meve/learn/educat...
www.americansouthwest.net/col...
www.uncovercolorado.com/hikin...
Petrified Forest, Arizona
www.fodors.com/world/north-am...
www.nps.gov/pefo/learn/histor...
www.petrifiedforest.org
V Bar V, Arizona
www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/cocon...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_Bar_V...
Palatki Heritage Site, Arizona
www.arizona-leisure.com/palat...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatki...
Chalfant, Chidago & Red Rock Petroglyphs - Bishop, CA
npshistory.com/brochures/blm/c...
Thanks for the great video, it was very informative. Also thank you for respecting the tribe's privacy.
Was this a race and nobody told me ? It drives me INSANE when fascinating pictured items are flown by in lightning speed accompanied by audio descriptions spoken in the same manner. You tell us how interesting they are, the majority without funds to visit them and a tantalizing touch on then is frustrating and maddening. I left rather quickly, very dissappointed. It was like somebody saying, isn't this great ? Love ta show ya, no time, take my word for it, they're terrific. Loved it ! Hope ya go sometime.
It sounds like you watched it on double speed lol. The whole point of the videos is exactly what you just described. To show people a brief breakdown and introduction, if they're interested in going to visit sites like these. If you don't like this style of video, that's cool. But then why are you watching a "15 Must See" type of video in the first place? 🤣
For those in the Phoenix area, I'd recommend Petroglyph Falls, near Apache Junction. A 1.5 mile hike to a small waterfall with many petroglyphs.
Wow that sounds great. I wish we would’ve known about that when we were there. Next time 😃
Did you notice the hands on New Mexico, had six fingers? I've found six finger hands in Arizona too. Also, there are many sights that have been blown up by the Calvery, to try to erase their existence.
I noticed a couple 3 finger hands. Kind of has a new meaning now.
Add California to the 6-fingered hand petroglyphs list as well.
After capturing lots of photos of petroglyphs taken from Arches National park, I began searching for research on the symbolism online and haven't found anyone talking about this. There is soo much of it. it's amazing!
i feel like psychedelic substances has alot to do with the shapes and figures being shown... I always picture ancient medicine men using these images to tell stories infront of camp fires and stuff while everyone is tripping on shrooms or peyote.. who kn ows
You didn't include a single site in Utah. That's crazy. Utah has some of the best pictograph and petroglyph panels.
We wanted to - we hit like 50 archeological sites across America - we couldn’t go everywhere. We would love to see the panels in Utah though.
Yes utah@@AncientPresence
Awesome video
Hey you two, finally had time to watch this, super cool! As always thanks for sharing such great work and love the narration!
I lived in southern California for the first 17 years of my life. I saw so many. Used to live in yucca valley/ Joshua tree... So the native culture forever left a beautiful mark in me
Cool stuff 😇
Another great video. Well done !!
Thanks mom! 😁 🙏 ❤️ Glad you liked it 👍
The details were fantastic.
Thanks 😊
I have been to the Bishop sites and was treated with great suspicion & animosity when I stopped in the Park office to get a map. Perhaps his attitude was understandable considering vandals had removed a portion of rock wall which was later recovered from the living room of some local native americans.
It is believed some of the petroglyphs are road markers and maps depicting water sources and information for hunting or fishing for those who followed the herds and seasonal food sources. Different sites were for specific purposes, perhaps the stone for health during pregnancy and birth, cooking sites have yet different depictions. One of the Universities in Nevada tested the map hypothesis and actually discovered a buried water source.
Fascinating! It is as if peoples are reaching out from 10,000 years ago to say the elk will be here when there is snow on the opposing White Mountains! Depicted a hunter with an atladel, deer, and pointed mountains peaks which, when looking up are located directly across the valley!
Great content, thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoy Ziggy 😃
@@AncientPresence ...any plans for future trips?
thanks gents - that footage is awesome
I never knew we had such sites so close to us. Great detail and I feel inspired to explore.
Yeah go check out your local ancient archeological sites. They’re everywhere 😁 glad you enjoyed the video 🙏
Awesome⭐️🌹
Great work, we have some awesome petroglyphs in Western Australia on the Burrup peninsular near Karatha. There are images of long extinct animals like the "Tasmanian Tiger". I found a small stone there that was not from the area, it was possibly used to make some of the petroglyphs 10's of thousands of years ago, I left that rock there, maybe it has some weird voodoo, mojo stuff I don't need
Post a video!
You totally missed Alamo mountain near Hueco Tanks. Its way out of the way on BLM land with close to 10000 petroglyphs. When I was stationed at Ft. Bliss a couple of years back me and a buddy made several trips out there. Incredible but only found about 200 of them. I even saw a petroglyphs of a fish which led me to believe the land had water at the time....maybe?
Such a great channel
Thank you!
Many thanks for share.
Thanks for watching 🙏 😀
@@AncientPresence I'm the one who appreciates it. Thanks for sharing these wonderful things.🙏🙏🙏🙏❤
Great video
Interesting video 😁
Thank you for this video. I can explain a few things about these petroglyphs. Very important is the square cross at 9 min. 20 sec. This symbol can be found all over the world also on cylinder seals from Sumer which are at least 5,000 years old. At 2 min 16 sec we see a square cross with in it a swastika. The square cross within a circle, the spiral and the square cross as at 9 min 40 sec right below and the figurines with hands up are all referring to the crossing of the ninth planet in our solar system. That event occurs every few thousand years and causes a terrible flood and many more unpleasant effects. Many people and animals die. The people with hands up are frightened when they see the planet appear in the sky. During the time that the planet 9 or Nibiru approaches our sun and its planets, the shape or appearance varies depending on the distance. Very far away we see only a spiral, later it appears as at 16 min 50 sec and when it is closer we see the square cross. We find this on a petroglyph in the Mojave desert. All drawings must be at least 2000 years old but most probably nearly 6,000 years old. To learn much more about planet 9, the recurring flood cycle and its timeline, the rebirth of civilizations and ancient high technology, read the e-book: "Planet 9 = Nibiru". This book answers many of your questions about ancient history. It can be read on any computer, tablet or smartphone. Search: planet 9 roest
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Indeed 😁
McConkie Ranch by Vernal, It has a Panel called the Three Kings that was on the Cover of National Geographic in the 60s. Fremont Indians.
Best Petroglyphs I've ever seen are 20 miles north of Ridgecrest CA on the gunnery range of China Lake Naval Air Station.
The Maturango Museum has infrequent tours of Little Petroglyph canyon on Wild Horse Mesa.
it's a long drive and you have to be on the guided tour - several guard gates - south of Junction Ranch
Pannel after pannel of shamen, solar calendar spirals in flat table rocks, Vs, Antiquated spears, atl-atl, bows, and even one gun shooting person with a hat on a horse.
the spirals and Vs are coverd by 4000 years of desert patina, newer bighorn sheep, with atl-atl have less patina, there is a line of people going to the mountain pass, and a canoe - it's hundreds of miles to any river. The canyon hike is several miles of petroglyphs until it dumps off the mesa. Better than Mesa Verde.
Wow sounds amazing. Thanks for sharing 😁
I found this state park after following the Missouri River back to its “head” waters. Noticed it’s a state park called keyhole state park. The squirrels made a neat out of a rock there known as keyhole rock. How did they chew the tunnels? What happens if you play a Native American style flute into the holes in keyhole rock. I googled the state park and found these petroglyphs resemble the “bird’s eye view” that the satellite images of keyhole state park. So maybe the petroglyphs were designed by ancient man to guide is to the head waters of the Missouri River. This is also where crazy horse was rumored to have his birthplace.
"An elk jumping over an interdimensional portal"? um, okay, Rick C-137 - I think you might be reading a little TOO MUCH into a scribble on a rock. I think the 'elk' hypothesis is probably accurate (or really close), but... an interdimensional portal?? I'm not sure the natives of that time had the same concept of spatial dimensions as you and I do... I'm saying that part of it might be a BIT of a stretch....
But please don't take that one criticism to imply that I dislike the video or anything - I thought this was a great video, truly, and the sites look incredibly interesting and you did a great job with the descriptions, presentations, and the footage. It was a very worthwhile watch. Thank you for bringing this to all of us - I hope that some day I can see at least some of these places in person, but until then, I'm grateful that you brought them to us virtually.
Lol the elk statement was totally a joke, but I’m glad you left this otherwise very pleasant comment 😃
Amazing to see humans leaving their mark with the hands were also right handed.
I truly wish they had done this like at an art gallery, at least 30 seconds for each picture,
Pause the computer where you want to see
Great stuff guys. I wonder how much of that is telling us about the events that carved the scablands?
Much love Will! Thank you so much for your support on Patreon, you’re awesome 🙌
Yeah that’s a good point. The end of the last ice age was one of the most catastrophic events in human history that would’ve been told in oral stories and legends for millennia and probably carved and painted onto rocks and cave walls. I wish I could understand what the glyphs say, but so many of them are super abstract.
@@AncientPresence have you noticed how the things carved that we can clearly identify like animals, people, objects in the sky, trees etc., are all childlike renderings of the world around them? They're all anatomically incorrect. The necks on the deer are long and skinny. Human legs and arms are disproportionate to the rest of the body, bulls have large torsos and tiny legs, etc. I wonder if that is a clue to understanding them? Maybe it's the results of an art/history class for the children of the survivors. Stone and bedrock would be the only medium leftover after the catastrophe to record events and have them last long enough to pass down to future generations of children. Pure speculation over here. But it certainly wasn't the same artisan that carved the Sphinx that made the petroglyphs. Or the same skill level.
Interesting speculation 👍 So maybe some of the oldest glyphs are megafauna from the Pleistocene era…? I just found this cool paper which discusses this kinda stuff, and thought of you. Maybe the oldest glyphs are telling the stories of the great catastrophes at the end of the last ice age. Pretty cool concept.
www.academia.edu/37490311/Plasma_Petroglyphs_Plasmaglyphs_Earthworks_and_the_Megafauna_Extinction?email_work_card=title
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U guys should check out picture rocks in southern Arizona near tucson
Just listening to this narration made me want to sing Show tunes and pluck my eyebrows!
Haha what?! Is that a good thing or a bad thing…?
Nice footage. Thanks. IMHO Los Lunas Decalogue stone is definitely modern. Maybe back in the 1920's. Transatlantic (and Pacific for that matter) probably happened, but that site is not evidence - again IMHO. The local region has possible Chinese glyphs that are much more credible.
For those in southern Idaho: the Wees-bar petroglyphs!
Sometimes I feel like a chunky elk jumping over an interdimensional portal...
Haha. Maybe it was a prophecy of your arrival.
Did you guys get to enjoy these sites alone? How were the frequencies?
We were at many of them alone. Not sure about the frequencies…. But they were really great places to feel the passage of time.
Wow I'm shocked you didn't visit anything in Utah. Utah has way better rock art then most places you said where the best to visit.
We were beelining across the country through Utah and didn’t have time to stop there. We were trying to get to Serpent Mound by the summer solstice. Did you watch our Serpent Mound video? It’s a good one 😉
@@AncientPresence Ugh. You missed Head of Sinbad, Buckhorn Wash, 9 mile canyon and Newspaper Rock, among others. Check them out online. Enjoyed your video.
Baal with you !
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Sky Rock and 13 Moons
Exactly 😁 have you been there?
You missed the Coso site, Coso mountains on southern border of Inyo county Located on the China Lake Naval Base something like 20k++ glyphs on black basalt concentrated in 2 small box canyons. Accessible via guided tour by base archeologist staff so this incredible site is well preserved & protected. Well worth the time. Outside the naval base in non restricted BLM wilderness in the same surrounding mountains of black basalt there are countless panels, groupings and individual glyphs, many styles are much like the Chalfant Glyphs, and many other Archaic, Mojave, Timbishi, Death & Owens Valley Paiute & Shoshone as well as some distinct anthropomorphic figures, shields & clan symbols that look to be Fremont and Pueblo in nature, along with some very old paleo glyphs, 10k & older, truely an ancient & sacred multicultural area which was & still is visited by tribes from throughout the southwest & throughout time.
Wow sounds great. We missed hundreds of other sites too, can't catch em all 😁 Thanks for sharing!
the flood creater did it leave you sign cover with same motive
Question... Over and over people say, this dates to this time period, yet how can anyone know this, what method is used to determine dates?
# 2 how long has it been sense there were elk there ?
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I liked the sites that you went too .But! You fly through the drawings so fast there is hardly time to see Slow down , and try to get the best shot of each one to eliminate glare.It will be a better presentation. Just trying to give you some constructive criticism .thank you for posting ,I would never be able to see these if not for you efforts. Thank you again.
even turtle panicking hand up running...they dont act fast
Im surprised there's none from Utah in this list did you go to any?
We just didn't really have time to stop in Utah on our trip, we were flying right through there on our way to Serpent Mound for the solstice.
Anyone who wants an explanation for what inspired the petroglyphs should look up Anthony Peratt. He is a plasma physicist that worked at Lawrence Livermore labs and discovered plasma figures in the lab matched these and other petroglyphs around the world.
Thanks! Very interesting - this just opened up a new rabbit-hole for me to fall down, lol
Do not fall down the rabbit hole, it goes nowhere but to hell
Interesting way of keeping that last site secret - by selling its location to anyone for $3. 😤
We dont tell them where the location is in our patreon video either.
How do you know it’s 500 years old man give me a break any potential artist could’ve done that on the rock
There are no power plants close to the Trackrock area!!! Just sayin, n couldnt tell you the last time we had acid rain in the North Ga mountains..
THE FLOOD
I have been to many of these sites and hope to see them again and the others.Amazing. Also Hidden Mtn. NM is legit.
basicly it the high views of the ;land many river always high run down the cliff trait of flowing water black fading time weather ..yes it a geological picture
twisted behaivor
It’s a QR code lol jk but really cool
a scare turtle head stretching out up away form body...hello
human on tree hand up under safety line over tree top
hand up everybody human under animal ontop outside the line
a petra 2.0
animals stack ontop each other under wierd monster in domination control scence of panick out of order
Actually it could have been Chinese made. Referring to the first stone . Chinese may have been here before Columbus.. they appear on old maps cali. Seems some of what we've been told....ain't exactly true. So we got that going for us.
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Elk jumping a inter dimension portal??? Really???
We were having fun with it 😉 you can interpret just about anything from these abstract symbols.
monster fish hand up human low under..not good fish over u
tree become rock broken out in open not natural result
How do you come up with the dates (assumptions) earth is 6000 years old
People always get their meanings totally wrong. Every petroglyph means the same thing. It means a big ball of mud once rolled down a hill, and when it got to the bottom small pieces fell off and created little mounds of mud. Then a lizard climbed a tree and took a dump on the lowest limb. But the lizard fell out of the tree and a centipede crawled across a rock that was heated by the sun. And finally, a small gas bubble emerged from the bottom of a pond, floated to the surface, and sat upon the water for 4 seconds before it popped.
Lol precisely 😆
standing ontop each other hand up screaming wat u dont understand?
fortress in to survive hide high up tight in behind massive mountain back...a hide hard secure hard to reach model city..not real city ..too small for human comunity to live movement door room
I watched your video. The videos are beautiful. Video quality is very nice but like view subscribe is very low, another is more, if you have you can be a professional youtuber. Do you want to be a professional?
We can talk about how this can happen ..
I live on Cape Cod not far from Plymouth Rock. We see petroglyphs of our ancestors all the time. They're called 'cemeteries' , carved images into rock that 'tell a story'. Why would these ancients depict anything but prayers to the dead? Do you thing people were influenced by little green men to of changed so much?
Is loud annoying repetitious noise ( music?) a youtube requirement ?
Yes, youtube requires us to use annoying music we made so that people can come out of the woodwork and make condescending remarks to us… its the policy here i guess.
The lost tribe of Israel was never, NEVER in North America!
You folks need to do more research and fact checking. I am 3 minutes into this video and already you have provided misinformation .
Care to point out inaccuracies?