Death Valley 2022/23

[Beardilocks]

Next up is a habitation site I visited.  One of the larger, still standing rock shelter rings/foundations I've come across.  



Crazy amounts of lithic scatter again here.


Some really beautiful pieces.


A couple of petroglyphs near the house structure.




Grinding Stone.


Another view of the rock circle shelter.  Note the petroglyph in the rock at the bottom of the photo.  This is the first petroglyph I've seen on a rock used in any sort of structure like this in DEVA.




Another rock circle.


A glyph oddly on a rock in the middle of the wash nearby.


The coolest thing at this site by far:  Metate with Mano still in place after all these years.  Bonus for the petroglyph on the metate.  


A short hike from this location, but oddly up over a hill & near a small wash there was quite a collection of petroglyphs (several dozen decorated rocks, large and small, in total).  The collection continued over a ridgeline and down the other side. The location is extremely odd and out of character for where I usually see petroglyphs placed.  Quite the mystery.








Archeological tag at the top of this photo that I didn't notice until just now.


This was a pretty large boulder.  Biggest of the group that I found.












Note the odd glyph on the far right side of the rock.  I love when they are truly in the round like this.  Adds a layer.



This one seems to be a hunting scene with a complete landscape.  Or a map.  


Very cool location.