SHAY CANYON - INDIAN CREEK - UTAH
Maarten van Hoek Updated August 2005| 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 Shay Canyon is just a couple of miles NW of Newspaper Rock and can be reached by crossing Indian Creek. There are two parts with petroglyphs. An east facing panel high up the cliffs has a few petroglyphs. Around the corner is a long strech of the cliff that faces SE with many most interesting petroglyphs on several panels. Most of the images belong to the Canyonlands Anasazi Period although there are some older and some more recent images as well. The majority comprises anthropmorphs - including several flute players, one group situated next to a figure supposed to represent a dancing deer - and many zoomorphs (two in a copulating position). Interesting is a scene in which a hunter shoots an animal that has been executed on an invisible (to the hunter) adjacent part of the panel. |
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