Picture Canyon, CO

[rginn]

In SE Colorado. I always find the horse petroglyph interesting, as I haven't seen that style used anywhere else. I didn't see any surveillance cameras, but did see a lot of doves nesting in the rocks and swarms of mosquitoes. I hadn't seen the last petroglyph before. It's a life size profile of a man wearing a roach headdress. It's about the height it could have been carved by a man on horseback.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Nice, real nice!

 

[rginn]

Anybody knows anything about that last one I would appreciate hearing it. When I first spotted it, I thought 'Pawnee!'. I would say it dates back to historic times and not the work of some modern day graffiti artist, as that's a very good representation of a deer tail roach. A graffiti artist in modern times would probably not be familiar with the roach and would draw feathers.

 

[Cassews]

Oh very nice ~!~

 

[tamrock]

Like the horse. No clue on that warrior?

 

[old digger]

Cool! the last one kind of looks like a Spaniard wearing a Spanish helmet?

 

[rginn]

Tamrock this is a place that has attracted the attention of those 'explorers before Columbus' guys. The horse looks a whole lot like an ancient Etruscan depiction of a horse. Some one in modern times came in and outlined it in a black marker and left us a good example of why you should not chalk or paint petroglyphs. You look very closely at it and there's some markings they missed and some they added. There's three horizontal lines above the forequarters of the horse that were probably by the original artist, but they aren't painted in. As to the guy in the roach headdress, I'll venture it's historic Indian, and a depiction of a Pawnee man. For what reason or purpose I don't know.