Bears Ears National Monument
April 07, 2017
In March I worked for a few days in the new Bears Ears National Monument in support of the Ancient Art Archive.
We documented just a few of the some 100,000 sites in the Monument.
The Procession Panel
The Procession Panel is a well known petroglyph on Comb Ridge in San Juan County Utah. The panel is attributed to the Ancestral Puebloan culture (ad 100 to 1600). The artwork depicts a procession of over 180 small, human like figures converging on a central point. It also features two large deer pierced with arrows.
A juvenile midget faded rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus concolor) in Cottonwood Canyon. The midget faded is a venomous pit viper subspecies of rattlesnake.
Butler Wash Panel on the San Juan River, Utah. This panel is composed of Basket Maker images dating from aprox 1500 bc to 500 ad.
Basketmaker engravings on the floor of a cave in Fish Mouth Canyon, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
a Kokopelli flute player on the main Sand Island petroglyph panel near Bluff, Utah. The flute has been reetched at some point in the past.
Butler Wash Panel on the San Juan River, Utah. This panel is composed of Basket Maker images dating from aprox 1500 bc to 500 ad.
Butler Wash Panel on the San Juan River, Utah. This panel is composed of Basket Maker images dating from aprox 1500 bc to 500 ad.
Butler Wash Panel on the San Juan River, Utah. This panel is composed of Basket Maker images dating from aprox 1500 bc to 500 ad.
A mammoth petroglyph at the Upper Sand Island petroglyph panel. This is one of two mammoth petroglyphs on this wall. It is superimposed with a bison glyph.
An anthropmorph and atalatals on the floor of a cave in Fish Mouth Canyon, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
I gilrs watches the sun set from the top of a large pile of boulders in Comb Sawh , Bears Ears National Monument, Utah