For thousands of years Native Americans carved and painted images onto wind sculpted rock walls and boulders.
Careful documentation can provide valuable insights into how these images fit into the lives of those who made them.
Rock art consists primarily of representational or non-representational designs as petroglyphs (carvings/peckings), or pictographs (paintings).
“…Remember that you are on sacred ground. Be respectful. Be careful. Be humble. … Breathe the clean outdoor air your ancestors breathed. Gaze up at the sky your ancestors gazed up at. Be part of the world they were part of. Hear them whisper to you.
Whisper back.”
David M. Lee, Rock Art East of the Range of Light
“The tremendous amount of field time we spent within the unique Grand Canyon landscape influenced our observations, interpretations, and perspectives of the environment and cultural context related to this unique form of human expression more than anything else.”
Don D. Christensen, Rock Art of the Grand Canyon Region
