The Lanfair Buttes Petroglyphs (also known as Indian Wells Petroglyphs) are one of the more extensive sets of petroglyphs in the Mojave National Preserve. There are hundreds of petroglyphs here on desert-varnished rhyolite boulders. Almost one whole hillside is covered with them.
Ancestral Mojave and Chemehuevi probably camped here for the surface (or subsurface) water and mesquite trees. The site has a few unusual petroglyphs. One looks like a bird, and another ... a Joshua Tree!
Petroglyphs and historical writing
