NEWSPAPER ROCK - UTAH
Maarten van Hoek Updated May 2006| RESPONSIBLE VISTOR BEHAVIOUR AT ROCK ART SITES
* Never touch or wet rock art - it is highly damaging * Never chalk or enhance engravings * Do not walk on engraved rock * Leave all archaeological artefacts as they are * Only take photographs, only leave your footsteps The Newspaper Rock in Indian Creek is probably the most photographed rock art site of Utah. It is on a steeply SW sloping part of the cliff (it is not a boulder as some books claim) and has an atractive dark brown patina on which the petroglyphs stand out very clearly. The hundreds of closely packed images include many zoomorphs, anthropomorphs, footprints (some with extra digits - see the second and last photos), ringmarks and wandering lines, some dating from the prehistoric Anasazi period, but the majority can be ascribed to the historic Ute (the indian tribe after which the state was named). Some petroglyphs are very old and have been fully re-patinated and can hardly be seen (for instance the image just to the left of the ring figure in the second photo). |
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