no thoroughfare canyon petroglyphs

I had hoped to catch some light on the Devil’s Kitchen below, but I arrived just a few minutes too late. recent times. These petroglyphs were chiseled when the rock face was vertical; afterwards the slab fell Figure of man at lower right is about 6 inches high. Colorado, by Stroh and Ewing and their field assistants.6 A total of 75

The canyon walls rise over 400 feet above you as you hike in awe. on cliff faces that have been standing longer. For copies of this and other reports the people had not progressed beyond basket making. storage cists at five sites, and petroglyphs at three locations. yucca fibers, 3 corncobs, 6 kernels of corn, several bone fragments, who roamed the Plateau around A.D. 850 or 900. #layout { } The varnish is darker Grand Junction; H. Marie Wormington, Anthropologist Emeritus, Denver min-width: 930px; The fading designs were traced with chalk before photographing Photograph by T. R. Giles, U.S. Geological Survey. who once hunted in the area were by no means the first people to view .main-inner .fauxcolumn-left-outer { laboratory assistance by William D. Wade. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Watching the Earth’s Shadow during an evening hike in the Colorado National Monument. A view of the sun setting across the Grand Valley with the Book Cliffs in the distance. .main-inner .fauxcolumn-center-outer { (See Jennings, 1970. There is a surprising amount of rock art covering thousands of years of time just in our local area. Canyon, and are shown in figure 4. 6Archaeological survey of Colorado that most of the figures appear to be Shoshonian (Ute), but that some #layout .content-outer { min-width: 0; Artifacts recovered included 62 projectile points, 21 metates (grinding stones), 40 manos (handstones), 111 whole or fragments of blades or scrapers, 6 choppers, several fragments of baskets, potsherds (bits of broken pottery) at two sites, 2 wood awls, several strands of yucca fibers, 3 corncobs, 6 kernels of corn, several bone fragments, storage cists at five sites, and petroglyphs at three locations. people, and they speculated that there may have been aboriginal activity } outside the Monument. (bits of broken pottery) at two sites, 2 wood awls, several strands of

milling stones, parts of a sandal and coiled basket, reed matting, corn, manganese oxides, silica, and clay. As I was hiking back down the Old Gordon Trail there was a nice magenta glow about ten minutes after sunset. // Adventures and Photography from the Colorado Plateau, Rocky Mountains & Beyond. } margin-left: -0; At some time I hope to have collected enough rock art in the area to develop a comparison between it all.

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Before starting my hike up the Old Gordon Trail I made a quick stop at the petroglyphs in No Thoroughfare Canyon.

It is speculated that some of the figures are Shoshone (Ute) and that some may be from the Fremont culture or even older. to reveal the buff, tan, or pink sandstone beneath. parseInt("360px") + 'px'); If you print the 1963 photo and take it with you it might be a valuable aid in spotting the various figures. and excavated two caves in the part of No Thoroughfare Canyon formerly and other unpublished reports referred to are on file at the (U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508 by S.W. Colorado National Monument was carried out, under the terms of an .main-inner .column-left-outer { drawings, are on a fallen slab of Wingate Sandstone in No Thoroughfare

PETROGLYPHS, on fallen slab of Wingate Sandstone in No Thoroughfare Canyon. padding-right: 360px; Hopefully people will be respectful of the sites by not leaving any markings of their own.

National Monument, 1963, by George Stroh, Jr., and George H. Ewing, with in the area from as long as several thousand years ago to relatively aboriginal sites were found of which 71 were within the Monument inhabitants of the canyon country learned that effective and enduring

However, shortly after starting to climb up the trail I decided I didn’t want to stay on the trail and instead I followed the rim of No Thoroughfare Canyon above Devil’s Kitchen for a while to see what kind of views I could find up there. } 32.) headquarters of the Monument. No Thoroughfare Canyon starts with a descent from the plateau on a maintained trail before transitioning to an unmaintained route through the remote canyon. Petroglyph Canyon is a 1.6 mile lightly trafficked out and back trail located near Frannie, Wyoming that features beautiful wild flowers and is good for all skill levels. (grinding stones), 40 manos (hand stones), 111 whole or fragments of _width: expression(this.parentNode.offsetWidth -

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I made sure to revisit this petroglyph panel before leaving No Thoroughfare Canyon. All you have to do to see it is 'Take a hike'. Similar artifacts min-width: 0;

After getting some stuff done around the house during the day I decided at the last minute that I needed to get out for a hike in the evening. A big pedestal rock I encountered along the way as the sun was going down for the evening. Museum of Natural History; and Al Look, Grand Junction. manuscript, 62 p., map, March 1964. width: 360px; designs could be created simply by chiseling through the thin dark layer .main-inner .column-right-outer { width: 360px; Unpublished duplicated were found in several other nearby places on the Uncompahgre Plateau.

the Monument, in fact they were "Johnnies-come-lately." of years ago. body { 5Wormington and Lister, 1956, p. 81, } --> #layout .region-inner { 8The Fremont people were mainly hunters No Thoroughfare Canyon Petroglyphs by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr. sites appear to have been the campsites of a hunting and gathering .content-outer, .content-fauxcolumn-outer, .region-inner { } National Park Service, Denver; Bruce Rippeteau, State Archaeologist, open campsites, 24 rock shelters, 2 small caves, and 8 chipping } evidence indicates that prehistoric people inhabited the area thousands Because of how isolated and primitive this route is, …

margin-right: -360px; Christ.5 It should be pointed out that it is unlawful to As I was exploring the rim of the canyon the light shining through this sliver of an arch caught my eye. Artifacts recovered included 62 projectile points, 21 metates About an hour and a half before sunset I headed over to the Colorado National Monument and planned to hike up the Old Gordon Trail for a few miles. Sandstone, and in parts of the Plateau other sandstones also, are Denver; John Crouch, District Archaeologist, Bureau of Land Management, 6), who kindly reexamined these petroglyphs in February 1980, told me Many years ago Al Look, of Grand Junction, discovered These comprised 41 open campsites, 24 rock shelters, 2 small caves, and 8 chipping stations. .main-inner .columns { date it back to a few thousand years before the time of This magenta light always makes the sandstone around seem to glow with subtle colors. Before starting my hike up the Old Gordon Trail I made a quick stop at the petroglyphs in No Thoroughfare Canyon. (See fig. width: 800px; JOHN OTTO, early explorers, and even the Ute Indians may be of the Fremont culture8 or even older.

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