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Native American pictographs and petroglyphs. No directions or waypoints to rock art sites unless they are already known or published.

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Southern Eagle Pictographs

Southern Eagle Pictographs

The Dzrtgrls led a group of us on a trip to the southern Eagle Mountains to see an area they had been scouting around in. They have made some nice pictograph and petroglyph finds out there, and we have found even more on this trip! This is an interesting and

Mary's Cave Pictographs

Mary's Cave Pictographs

Mary’s Cave, also known as Shelter Rock, is a nice little rock shelter carved out of a volcanic rock formation in the Mojave National Preserve. There is a small tinaja (a depression in the bedrock made by water) next to the shelter in the canyon, which would have held

Counsel Rocks

Counsel Rocks

Counsel Rocks, also known as Womb Rock, is a fascinating site inside the Mojave National Preserve in the eastern Mojave desert. The petroglyphs and pictographs are on a handful of large volcanic boulders at the base of a mesa. What is interesting about this site is that a couple of

Woods Wash Petroglyphs

Woods Wash Petroglyphs

The Dzrtgrls and I headed to the Mojave desert a few years ago to find a petroglyph and pictograph site. We were not disappointed. This is a large petroglyph site that requires a few miles of hiking. It has thousands of petroglyphs and covers several square miles in a lonely

Cave of the Four Horsemen

Cave of the Four Horsemen

Also known as Saddle Rock, this is an impressive set of pictographs inside a rock shelter high in the Santa Monica mountains above Malibu. The cave itself is a natural overhang near a local landmark. The site is particularly interesting because it portrays four mounted riders. The Chumash Indians were

Mount Irish Petroglyphs

Mount Irish Petroglyphs

This is an impressive and large petroglyph area with three main clusters of petroglyphs; Paiute Rocks, Shaman Hill, and Shaman Knob. Archeologists think some of the petroglyphs here could date from 1000 BC. One very interesting and unique petroglyph repeated here is the so-called "Pahranagat Man." He shows

Motte Rimrock Reserve Pictographs

Motte Rimrock Reserve Pictographs

These are a spectacular set of pictographs located inside the University of California Motte Rimrock Reserve. The Reserve is private and set aside for study and research only. I was lucky enough to be invited on-site. There is a caretaker living here at all times. Please do not trespass. We