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Show PETROGLIPHS FOUND IN BEAVERJANYONS Utah is recognized as one of the richest areas on the American continent contin-ent for the study of primitive man according to Dr Julian H. Steward, University of Utah anthropologist. Some notable discoveries of petro-gliphs petro-gliphs have been made in the canyons and hills near Beaver, Fillmore, Price, Magna, Moab and Wayne county. One interesting feature which Dr. Steward points out in regard re-gard to the petrogliphs is that the ancient engravers subjects such as sheep, deer, men, concentric circles and other figures are greatly similar to those found many hundreds of miles from Utah, a feature which seems to indicate a wide spread civilization civil-ization as early as two thousand years ago. In the region near Vernal 'have been discovered petroglyphs or pictures pic-tures engraved on stone which rival those of the ancient Aztecs in master craftsmanship. One rare specimen in the Vernal region is of an ancient pueblo Indian's god and is unique in that it is engraved in bas-relief, that is, the picture stands out and the background is chipped away. Dr. Steward sets the time of this ancient Utah culture as existing about one thousand to fifteen hundred hund-red years ago. He states that these people grew corn at this early date and that they fashioned clay fetishes or images as an appeal to the gods to make the soil fertile. What is probably the earliest domestic do-mestic dog yet discovered in America was found by Dr. Steward in a burial cave north of Great Salt Lake. n |