NORTH AMERICA - THE SOUTH WEST
Maarten van Hoek Updated August 2005| The South West of the USA is enormously rich in rock art sites. The following pages only offer a small selection of sites, but a page with links may provide access to other areas on the continent.
The area that we visited is dominated by four different prehistoric cultures: the Fremont of Utah; the Anasazi of the Colorado Plateau; the Mogollon of southern New Mexico, western Texas and northern Mexico, and the Hohokam that once lived in a large area around Phoenix, Arizona. These four cultures appear in the time scale and the map below the photo. In addition to the rock art manifestations by those ancient cultures there are many petroglyphs and pictographs made by historic peoples like the Ute, Apache and the Navajo. A simple time scale is given below to show the approximate time span of each major culture (NB. The Archaic Period has no relation to the Navajo peoples that arrived in the Four Corners area from Canada at a much later date). The photo below shows a face or mask petroglyph, typical for the Mogollon Culture, executed on three differently orientated panels of the same rock. Three Rivers, New Mexico. |
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VISIT MONUMENT VALLEY - ARIZONA / UTAH VISIT BOX CANYON - SOUTH MOUNTAINS - ARIZONA VISITTWO ROCK ART SITES IN NEW MEXICO LINKS TO NORTH AMERICAN WEB SITES
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