Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Parowan Gap

This amazing place is only about a 30 minute drive from our home, and I had never been there! It was an amazing display of petroglyphs. Petroglyphs are pictures carved in rock, a hieroglyph is a picture that means a word, these are just pictures. These carvings are dated from at least 1,000 years ago. The artwork was done by "Prehistoric Fremont and southern Piute cultures."



This pass was NOT created by modern man. It was created a long time ago during or before these petroglyphs were created.
click on this picture to get a great view of the petroglyphs!
The kids think this is a little camping spot for an Indian to hide when he was hunting.

Some old school graffiti. Over 100 yrs old! I thought is was cool.

3 comments:

Mom's Place said...

Oh that is just too cool!!!!! I love finding places like that to take the kids to!

L.R.L said...

so fun!!

the mom said...

amazing place! and CUTE kids!