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  • X-rated on the rocks

    "The Serpent and the Sacred Fire: Fertility Images in Southwest Rock Art," by Dennis Slifer, takes a look at the sexual imagery of much Southwestern rock art.

    by Betsy Marston, Jan 29, 2001

  • Indian rock art under the drill?

    Crow Indians fear that rock art will be opened up to vandalism if Anschutz Exploration Co. drills an exploratory oil well and upgrades an access road in Montana's Weatherman Draw.

    by Laurel Jones, Jun 18, 2001
  • The grammar of picture writing

    The grammar of picture writing

    Researcher Levan Martineau made possible the work of archaeologist Carol Patterson when he used universal Native American sign language to decode the meanings embedded in petroglyphs.

    by Josh McDaniel, Jan 29, 2010
  • The great giveaway

    The great giveaway

    The BLM hurriedly releases six proposed resource management plans for 11 million acres of public land in Utah, leaving little time to respond.

    by Emily Steinmetz, Oct 03, 2008

  • Suburbia blasts through a national monument

    A rocky western escarpment and the Petroglyph National Monument have long held back Albuquerque’s sprawl, but now the Volcano Heights development is coming, and a controversial road through the monument may be built

    by Hilary watts, Jun 27, 2005

  • Petroglyphs and pavement collide

    N.M. Sen. Pete Domenici and Indian leaders are in a stand-off over road building in Petroglyph National Monument.

    by Jamie Murray, Jul 07, 1997

  • The gestures in rock art

    Archaeologist Carol Patterson builds on the work of Levan Martineau to unlock the meanings of rock art.

    by Josh McDaniel, Jan 29, 2010

  • A road to ruins?

    New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici is trying to push a controversial six-lane highway through Albuquerque's Petroglyph National Monument.

    by J T Thomas, Apr 13, 1998

  • Pictures worth 2,000 words

    Emery County, Utah, hires art restorers to remove graffiti from prehistoric rock art in Buckhorn Wash.

    by Diane Kelly, Aug 21, 1995

  • Dust on the rocks

    The results of a scientific study on the effects of dust on rock art are somehow “lost” in the haze of Barrett Corporation’s drilling in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon.

    by Keith Kloor, Aug 29, 2008

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