Monthly Archives: April 2017

“Monolith Alcove” Pictographs

We visited this site with Guy Starbuck. Be sure to check out his writeup of it!

This site is really strange: out in the middle of nowhere, not close to any other sites or habitation sites. We looked all over in the area surrounding this site, excited, sure there would be more to see, but – no! We found a whole lot of nothing. Heh heh, sometimes that’s how it goes.

This site is probably Serrano, but it is hard to say. The tribal boundaries are not that clearly defined around JTNP. The complete lack of other artifacts like arrow points or pottery sherds makes it even harder to place. Some of the elements, like the crosses, also occur at some other isolated sites in the region, and sometimes at petroglyph sites too.

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Burnt Cave Pictographs

Burnt Cave, on the shore of ancient Lake Lahontan in southern Nevada, was churned out of the hillside by the lakeshore waves around 7,000 years ago. There are several other caves in this ancient north-facing bay, but Burnt Cave is the only one with visible pictographs. It is an easy stroll from a dirt parking lot to the cave, which is a pity because some fool with a can of spray paint had happened by at some point. Some people are why other people can’t have nice things, I guess.

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