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Show The Moab area has numerous examples of Indian rock art to enjoy. This article briefly discusses some types, dates, the artists and their cultures and how to take care of these irreplacable sites. WHAT IS INDIAN ROCK ART? There are two types of rock art: petroglyphs (motifs that are pecked, ground, incised, abraded, or scratched on the rock surface) and pictographs (paintings or drawings in one or more colors using mineral pigments and plant dyes on the rock surface). Although many images may have originally been executed as a combination of both techniques, most now appear only as a petroglyph because the paint material has faded or washed away over many years. THE PEOPLE Rock art was produced by a number of prehistoric and historic, peoples over thousands of years. Their histories in the area are very complex. A big game are hunting people, known as in to be the human users the area. first considered Their game included Pleistocene fauna such as mammoths and mastodons. A later culture called Archaic, probably used central based camps during their seasonal round of activities based on Paleo-Indian- now-extin- s, ct harvesting wild plants and animals. They did not build permanent habitation structures, but lived in caves and in small brush shelters built in the open. The Anasazi whose culture centered south of Moab in the Four Corners area, concentrated much of their subsistence efforts on the cultivation of corn, beans and squash. These sedentary people, also harvested a wide variety of wild resources, such as pinion nuts, grasses, bighorn sheep and deer. The Fremont were contemporary with the Anasazi people, also grew corn, and were apparently more dependent on hunting and gathering wild resources than were the Anasazi. Their territory was mainly north of the Colorado River, but overlapped the Anasazi at Moab. The most recent inhabitants, the Utes have been in southeast Utah since the 1200s, They were a very mobile hunting and gathering people who moved in from the Great Basin. They used the bow and arrow, made baskets and brownware pottery, and lived in brush wickiups and tipis. The No-ta- h (Ute people) lived freely throughout western Colorado and eastern Utah until about 1880, i -- SITES black or brown surface (called desert varnish) of rock cliffs. The straight, smooth, red sandstone found in the Navajo and Wingate formations is a good area to look for pictographs. As you spot one image, look carefully around the adjoining surface areas. Often If you have trouble locating rock art once you are near a site, dont be discouraged. You will develop a sense of which types of rocks and surfaces are appropriate areas to look for petroglyphs and pictographs. Petroglyphs are commonly found on the -- there are numerous images at any given site. The main panel might have one or more subpanels nearby. Some of the images may be very famt, having faded or eroded through the years. f MOAB'S BEST CHOICE IN TOUR GUIDES ! 1 SMCJoass L nanMODG FARES Moab Connection" "Your Salt Lake (435) ! 259-342- 2 800-842-8- 1 21 (includes 7.5 Y1. for reservations and information Scheduled Moab-Sal- t Air Service 7 daysweek V Y2...Unrestricted Round Trip $274.12 SUMMER SCHEDULE MAY 15 - SEPT. 15 MOAB - 6:00 AM 801 Saturday-Suntia- MOAB -- 8:15 AM W 5 Call toll free 1.888.799.5293 or 435.259.4510 Visit ns oa the web at smrjnoiknet raveatonrs SLC 803 804 805 $218.22 Arrive at SLC - 7:00 AM .14 Day Advance M2 ReservationPurchase SLC-9:1- AM 5 $193.87 FLIGHTS . 803804 MOAB -- 10:45 AM SLC-12:1PM 5 MOAB 4:15 PM SLC -- 6:15 PM ' Daily except Saturday MOAB 806 9:00 PM -- 9:00 PM 816 -- 10 PM 10 PM f t . : 'f I k OfyHiM) It ft- i 1 Hit 1 -8-00-842-821 2 Flights operated in a British Aerospace JetStream aircraft, a turboprop. twin-engi- ne MOAB s $250.00 Fare is and subject to a $50.00 change fee. For Reservations Information call Sunrise 1 or Airlines at 1 435-259-342- SaturdayOnly SLC - raveatonrslasal.aet Send emails to non-refunda- 802 UTAH 0 Daily SLC - 9:45 AM MOAB - 11:15 AM SLC- 3:15 PM MOAB - 5:15PM - ReservationPurchase y 811 MOAB ....7 Day Advance B2 Monday-Frida- y Flight 5 FET) .Unrestricted One Way $141.90 Lake CityMoab Depart From S. w Ml t , |