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The Painted Rock Petroglyph Site [1] is a collection of hundreds of ancient petroglyphs near the town of Theba, Arizona, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [2] The site is operated and maintained by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and includes an improved campground as well as an informative walking ...
The famous Painted Rock Petroglyph Site lies at the northeast end of the range, adjacent the Painted Rock Reservoir, and the reservoir lies at the eastern end of the agricultural river valley that is locally named as the Lower Gila River Valley, extending approximately from the Colorado River at Yuma to the west and the reservoir at the east.
Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons; Black Mountain Rock Art District; Chalfant Petroglyph Site; Chumash Indian Museum; Coso Rock Art District; Hemet Maze Stone; Meadow Lake Petroglyphs; Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California) Petroglyph Point Archeological Site; Ring Mountain (California) Yellow Jacket Petroglyphs
The Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District is located in Ironwood Forest National Monument, in Pima County, Arizona.Added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1975, it features ancient Hohokam ruins, hundreds of well-preserved petroglyphs, and the historic Cocoraque Ranch.
Evidence of their existence can be found in the hundreds of symbolic and artistic rock etchings in the Painted Rock Petroglyph Site. The ancient Native-Americans obviously used the Gila to hunt, fish and farm [ 2 ] [ 3 ] When European settlers arrived in the region the area was home to the Tonto and Yavapai Apache tribes.
Petroglyphs in Arizona (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Arizona" ... Painted Rock Petroglyph Site; Palatki Heritage Site; Pantano, Arizona;
Painted Rocks State Park, a Montana state park Yakima Indian Painted Rocks , state park in Washington Painted Rock Petroglyph Site , archaeological site and BLM facility near Theba, Arizona, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, formerly part of Painted Rock State Park
The Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs Archeological District is part of the Petrified Forest National Park, and contains in excess of 650 petroglyphs, believed to have been created 1000–1500 CE. [citation needed] This Apache County site near Adamana, Arizona was listed on the National Register of Historic Places July 12, 1976. [2]