🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Bouse Fisherman Intaglio (Fisherman Geoglyph)
Late Prehistoric (Patayan) · Yuman (Mojave/Quechan)
9-m Fisherman intaglio (900–1200 CE) on Plomosa piedmont — spearman with fish and sun.
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🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Late Prehistoric (Patayan) · Yuman (Mojave/Quechan)
9-m Fisherman intaglio (900–1200 CE) on Plomosa piedmont — spearman with fish and sun.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic Hueco (6000 BCE) → Jornada Mogollon (1200 CE) → Tigua/Mescalero pictographs · Jornada Mogollon / Apache Comanche
El Paso huecos excavated by Jackson 1920s, 3000 pictographs, Comanche Cave masks 1000 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic to Ancestral Puebloan (3000 BCE–1300 CE) · Southern Paiute / Ancestral Puebloan
Parashant Nampaweap recorded by Peel 1970s, Puebloan pilgrimage trail markers to Grand Canyon.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Barrier Canyon Style (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Barrier Canyon archaic (pre-Fremont)
Horseshoe Great Gallery recorded by Schaafsma 1970s, Archaic Barrier Style before Anasazi.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Ancestral Puebloan (1000–1400 CE) and Spanish 1700s · Ancestral Puebloan → Rio Grande Pueblo
Albuquerque mesa excavated by Sundt 1970s, 24k peck basalt trail, NPS Mesa Prieta 1000.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Fremont (500–1300 CE) · Fremont (Uinta Fremont)
Utah's Nine Mile excavated by Manning 1910s, Fremont owl-eyes figures and hunt scenes.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Newspaper Rock Petrified Forest Panel South in Arizona, Petrified Forest, United States is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Pre-Clovis (Western Stemmed) · Paisley (Western Stemmed) / Pre-Clovis
14,500-year coprolite caves — oldest human DNA in Americas (14,300 BP) with Western Stemmed points, Oregon.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Great Basin archaic to Numic (12000 BCE–1850 CE rock; peak 4000–1000 BCE Coso Representational) · Great Basin Coso (Northern Uto-Aztecan?) predecessors
China Lake Coso excavated by Grant & Farley 1960s, UCLA bighorn sheep style 4000 BCE, navy protected.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Bronze Age
Kuelap Fortress North in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Chan Chan Citadel West in Colorado Plateau, United States is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Vihara Cell Group West in Southwest, United States is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Fremont (900–1200 CE) · Fremont (San Rafael)
Emery Rochester recorded by Gunnerson 1960s, Fremont horned shaman and migration trail.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Jornada Mogollon (900–1400 CE) · Jornada Mogollon
Three Rivers recorded by Schaafsma 1960s, Jornada style linked to Mimbres–Casas Grandes.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Dinwoody (8000 BCE–1000 CE) to En-Toto Pecked to historic · Plains Archaic Dinwoody / Shoshone
Thermopolis Legend Rock state park, Dinwoody style intermontane archaic unique to Wyoming.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic Barrier (6000 BCE) → Fremont (600 CE) → Ute (1800 CE) · Barrier Canyon → Fremont → Ute layered
Sego three cultures described by Castleton 1970s, highway-visible 14 m panel with 75 figures.