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P5180101.jpg (80238 bytes) The ruin at this site once contained both single story and two story structures.

The holes for the poles
used to support the first level ceiling were less
than head high.

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P5180107.jpg (77672 bytes) The temperature inside
the restored ruins was
very cool and pleasant.

Mineral stains on the roof
of one of the alcoves where the pictograms are located.

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P5180115.jpg (67642 bytes) The site is predominately
pictographs rather than
petroglyphs.

These striking  black pictographs may have been made with normal minerals and then absorbed the soot.

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P5180121.jpg (65377 bytes) The steward at the site
claimed these "scratches" are the oldest art there.

The pictograms vary from nearly invisible to striking.
You have to study the panels to see everything.

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P5180129.jpg (42055 bytes) This would be an "historic" pictograph, as the prehistoric natives did not know horses.

The name -sake panel in
the Bear Alcove.

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Scratches and pictrographs found together - the current thought is the scratches are older but I'm not so sure. Either way, is one culture trying to deface the work of another?

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