Death Valley 2022/23

[Beardilocks]

Speaking of "collect all 10 pictograph sites" I added another over the weekend.  

Really cool site up in the Wildrose vicinity.



Oddly, right in the middle of the main panel I could see some writing and some odd markings.  If anyone has insight I would love to hear it.  Appears to be pencil names and some other odd markings.  Quite small.  


DStretch-ed the odd pattern next to the pencil markings so you could see the weirdness.  You can see the pencil name in the upper right.  The odd markings are in a similar pigment to the pictographs, but are in a completely different style and oddly symmetrical.  I would to hear any ideas on what that might be about.  


There were a number of other pictographs on the other wall that were nearly invisible to the naked eye, but not DStretch.








Stone out in front of the rock shelter, possibly a metate of sometime, although the archeological report of the site states that no signs of habitation were present.  What was present was only some cached deer antlers and a basketry seed beater in a back cleft.