Evidence of ancient aliens?
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Petroglyph National Monument is one of the largest petroglyph sites in North America. Near Albuquerque, the park has over 25,000 petroglyph images within it's 17 mile boundary.
An estimated 90% of the petroglyphs were created by the ancestors of today’s Pueblo Indians and many were believed to have been carved between 1300 and 1700 AD.
Although most of the petroglyphs were beautiful, there were instances when we doubted the authenticity of some of the rock art. The park is easily accessible to the public and it would be easy enough for pranksters and vandals to have made their way here, especially before the park was established in 1990.
Evidence of ancient aliens or more modern graffiti? What do you think?
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Great boulders but whoever did the rock drawings was not very good at drawing. 😊
Quite tough when your tools are a rock, and a rock 😁
Haha, in that case they did well to leave anything craved in the rocks. It really is amazing the hieroglyphs left all over the world.
That first figure could be a sky traveller with the pipe coming out of his head indicating a connection to air supply or whatever an alien needs to keep alive in our atmosphere.
Petroglyphs are very cool. I would love to see the oens in the southern us and south and central America. It would probably take a knowledgeable art historian or maybe an archaeologist to say when some of those were done. I wonder if someone thousands of years ago ever thought, "Hrm. I'm going to carve something really weird just to mess with people that come here generations later."
The petroglyphs I visited last summer are from a range of years. Some are 7,000 years old. And, of course, there are names carved in them, too. Europpean settlers couldn't help but leave their mark on the way out west.
In the southwest many of the more current inscriptions were written in Spanish by explorers and early settlers. You would love visiting Inscription Rock, at El Morro National Monument, West of Albuquerque.
I'm not sure but this really grabs me. I love the really old ones . This just seems like it could have been me and friends or something... Beautiful script too.
I used to camp in central baja every winter and one place we went was a 3 hour drive from the main hwy. It was once used by onyx miners to carry giant rocks to the pacific ocean. Then they would load them on a sailboat. It's hard to describe how wild and absolutely crazy that seems when you drive a car at 5 or ten miles an hour out the road. There was a spring and an adobe ruin and bits of graffiti here and on things. Some of it was really old. Hard to tell when it was written. I imagined myself as one of the miners on the road... This area is so far from anywhere and back in those days it might as well have been the moon it was so isolated. it's one of my favorite places i've ever been to. It's basically unchanged and empty like when the first Europeans showed up. I heard there are really old petroglyphs in the area but didn't see them.
It's the road from El Marmol to Punta Canoas if you look on a map
That sounds like a fascinating area to explore! I have never been to Baja. Pretty sure I would love it, too.
I always find this sort of thing fascinating.
Hope you are doing well.
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There are many sites in the Southwest that have Rock art like this. It is fascinating to see them and imagine their meaning.
yeah it is sign of alien or modern alien,i think mdern
I think so, too!
700 years ago? That don't sound so ancient 🤔
But they are old! 😁
Yes, they are hundreds of years old!
If there were aliens with the technology to visit earth, enter our atmosphere and get back out again, why would anyone believe they would draw us a picture or leave a few stack rocks. Come on. I never bought into any of that.
I think the idea here was that the drawing was made hundreds of years ago by native people and was proof that they had seen aliens. I don't believe it, though. 😉
Nice photography.
Thanks!
Farout!! petroglyphs!! I love seeing ancient rock art ❤ @melinda010100!! :-)
So many eons of ancient messages, layer upon layer telling history.
Especially astronomy and navigation information. The star looks like a comet.
Easy to tell the old from the new is the patina takes a lot of time to form.
Aliens, we are the aliens hehe. Can't be the only ones in the vast multiverse!
We sent a golden disk into space a while back ago with some
modern petroglyphs on it showing our position in the milky way with
pulsar alignments thinking perhaps some Klingons will take target
practice on it! One of those star trek movies lol
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My guess is for modern pranksters. I'm surprised it took them that long to establish the park.
I tend to agree with you! I don't know why it took that long. There is a casino not too far from there, so maybe it was a land ownership issue that delayed it becoming a park. Only guessing, though.
yeah it was probably something like that. I'm sure the tribe may not have wanted a national park there.
Sounds like the park has a complicated history!
https://www.nps.gov/petr/learn/historyculture/recent-history-of-petroglyph.htm
Pretty cool i love seeing alien signs 👍