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Land Hill Petroglyphs - Santa Clara River Reserve - Ivins, Utah

Petroglyphs and Pictographs​

References
  • In Search of da Vinci Panel Petroglyphs and Red Man Pictograph - Virgin River Gorge
  • ​Pondering Petroglyphs:  A Shamanistic Possibility
  • ​In Search of the Santa Clara Petroglyphs:  The Abstract Enigma
  • In Search of the Rattlesnake Petroglyph
  • ​Neon Canyon/Escalante Petroglyphs and Cosmic Ashtray - Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
  • The Winged Monster Unmasked:  Black Dragon Canyon and Temple Wash Pictographs - San Rafael Swell
  • Utah's Red Rock Country:  The Holy Ghost Panel
  • The Incredible Parowan Gap Petroglyphs
  • Art in Tuff:  Petroglyphs at Fremont Indian State Park
  • ​Corn Springs Petroglyphs:  Vision Quests, Steamboats and Ringing Rocks









Da Vinci
Red Man
Shamanistic Possibility
Santa Clara Abstract
Parowan Gap
Fremont Indian State Park
Escalante River Petroglyphs
Rattlesnake Petroglyph
Temple Wash
Utah's Red Rock Country
Corn Springs Petroglyphs
Black Dragon Canyon
 
References
DaVinci Petroglyphs/Red Man Pictograph
​Leonardo Da Vinci:  Life and Artworks.  https://www.leonardodavinci.net/​
Why is the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci so Important?  Exploring Art with Alessandro (You Tube).

Doty, T.  Guide to Native Rock Writings. 2020. www.DotyCoyote.com
Patterson, A.  1992.  A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest.
Pool, R. 2019.  How Vivid-Red Rock Art Paint was Created.  Wiley Analytical Science website.
Pondering Petroglyphs - A Shamanistic Possibility
Turner II, C.  1963.  Petrographs of the Glen Canyon Region:  Styles, Chronology, Distribution and Relationships from Basketmaker to Navajo.
Schaafsma, P.  The Rock Art of Utah.  1971.  
Schaafsma, P.  1980.  Indian Rock Art of the Southwest.  School of American Research, Southwest Indian Art Series.
Indian Traders.  Native American Shamanism.
Patterson, Alex.  1992.  A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest.
Abram, David. 1996. The Spell of the Sensuous.  Vintage Books.
In Search of the Santa Clara Petroglyphs:  The Abstract Enigma
Bureau of Land Management.  Land Hill Heritage Site.
Malotki, Ekkehart.  The Rock Art of Arizona:  Art for LIfe's Sake.  From website:  Bradshaw Foundation.
Mangum, M.E. 2018.  Lithics and Mobility at Land Hill and Hidden Hills:  A Study of the Stone Tools and Debitage at Sites in the Santa Clara River Basin and on the Shivwits Plateau.  Brigham Young University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  2018. 28107515.
National Park Service.  Reading Rock Markings.
​Schaafsma, P.  1971.  The Rock Art of Utah.
Schaafsma, P.  1980.  Indian Rock Art of the Southwest.
​Scotter, T. Bowen , N.  2017.  The Rock Art of Utah.
​The Nevada Rock Art Foundation - Styles and Themes

​Willis, J.C., Hayden, J.M.  2015.  Geologic Map of the Santa Clara Quadrangle, Washington County, Utah.
In Search of the Rattlesnake Petroglyph
Breeding, A.  2019.  Written in Stone.  Palm Springs Life Magazine.  Desert Publications, Inc.
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Jones, K.  2019.  Standing on the Walls of Time:  Ancient Art of Utah's Cliffs and Canyons.  University of Utah Press.
Lingappa, U., Yeager, C., Sharma, A., Fischer, W.  6/14/2021.  An Ecophysiological Explanation for Manganese Enrichment in Rock Varnish.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  (from the internet).
Malotki, E., Dissanayake, E.  2018.  Early Rock Art of the American West:  A Geometric Enigma.  University of Washington Press.
Black Dragon Canyon Petroglyphs and Temple Wash Pictographs - San Rafael Swell
Allee, P.A. et al.  The Black Dragon Solar Solstice Markers and Calendar.  utahrockart2.org.
Demarco, E.  'Winged Monster' on Ancient Rock Art Debunked by Scientists.  Science website, August 25, 2015.
Geggel, L.  2015.  "Winged Monster" Rock Art Finally Deciphered.  from LiveScience website.
The Eared Grebe.  From the Cornell Lab All About Birds website.
Mitton, J. 2020.  Controversial Interpretations of the Black Dragon Pictograph.  Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine.  University of Colorado - Boulder.
Sucec, David.  The B.C.S. Project:  Barrier Canyon Rock Art Style.  www.bcsproject.org/barrierstyle.html
Utah's Red Rock Country (Great Gallery and Holy Ghost Pictographs)
National Park Service. Analysis and Dating of the Great Gallery tool and Food Bag. 
Natural History Museum of Utah.  Bold Figures, Blurred History:  The Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon.
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Weaver, Lance.  2020.  What Gives Utah's "Red Rock Country" its Color?  Utah Geological Survey.
Colors of the Navajo Sandstone.  nps.gov.
sensationalcolor.com.  Color Symbolism and the Meaning of Red.
Navajo Sandstone.  Utah Geology.com.​
Parowan Gap
Maldonado, F., et al.  Geologic Map of the Parowan Gap Quadrangle, Iron County, Utah.  U.S. Geological Survey.
Wilkerson, C.   2018.  Geosights:  Parowan Gap, Iron County.
Orndorff, R.L., et al.  Geology Underfoot in Southern Utah.  2020.   Mountain Press Publishing Company.
Parowan City Corportation website.
​Wadsworth, Rueben.  2019.  Parowan Gap day;  Interpretations and Mysteries of a Petroglyph Heaven.  Cedar City News Archives.
Fremont Indian State Park - Utah
Case, W.  Geosights:  Fremont Indian State Park, Sevier County, Utah (from Utah Geological Survey website, vo. 42 #2, May 2010.
Cunningham, C.G., Steven, T. A.  1979.  Mount Belknap and Red Hills Calderas and Associated Rocks, Marysvale Volcanic Field, West-Central Utah.  U.S. Dept. of the Interior - Geological Survey.
Fremont Indian State Park Trail Guide.  State of Utah Office of Museum Services.
The Historical Marker Database - Pioneering Utah

Madsen, D. B.  1989.  Exploring the Fremont.  Utah Museum of Natural History.
​Orndorff, R.L., et al.  2006.  Geology Underfoot in Southern Utah.  Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, Montana.
Simms, S. R.  4/22/2016.  The Fremont Period.  From historytogo.utah.gov website.
Corn Springs, southern California
Carter, L.  2021.  Ancient rock art and psychedelics.., The language that connects us all.  From website:  www.roXiva.com.
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Corn Springs - Wikipedia.
Crowell, J., et al.  1979.  Tectonics of the Juncture Between the San Andreas Fault System and the Salton Trough, Southeastern California.  Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of California - Santa Barbara.
Devereux, P.  2008.  The Association of Prehistoric Rock Art and Rock Selection with Acoustically Significant Landscape Locations.  The Archaeology of Semiotics and the Social Order of Things.  BAR International Series #1833.
Freers, S.  2018.  Simply Scratching the Surface:  Petroglyph Chronology in the Colorado Desert.  San Diego Rock Art Association.  Rock Art Papers, Vol. 19.
Gough, G.  Sacred Landscape and Native American Rock Art.
Lingenfelter, R.  1978.  Steamboats on the Colorado River:  1852 - 1916.  The University of Arizona Press.
​Powell, R. 1981.  Geologic map of the crystalline basement complex in the southern half of the eastern Transverse Ranges, Southern California:  Supplement 1 from "Geology of the Crystalline Basement Complex, Eastern Transverse Ranges, Southern California:  Constraints on Regional Tectonic Interpretation".
Ringing Rocks and Sonorous Stones. 2020.  From website Spooky Geology.  ​https://spookygeology.com/ringing-rocks-and-sonorous-stones/
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