Aug 28 2006 12:16 am
Rock Art in the Trans Pecos Area of Texas
For over five millennia, native artists painted elaborate scenes in the canyon overhangs and rock shelters of the lower reaches of the Pecos and Devils Rivers. More than 200 rock art sites have been documented in the Trans Pecos area of Texas. These range from single paintings to caves containing panels of art hundreds of feet long. They open a window into the past, showing how the first Americans lived and the things they worshipped: the sun, the thunderbird and the shaman.
Many of these paintings are on private lands, but there are a few places that you may view and photograph them. Visit Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site, located 9 miles west of Comstock on US Highway 90, just east of the Pecos River Bridge. Enjoy hiking, mountain biking, camping, historical study and interpretive exhibits. There are RV sites with electricity and water, and camping sites with just water.
Every Wednesday through Sunday, join the Fate Bell Shelter Tour to one of the oldest cave dwellings in North America, containing Pecos River-style pictographs over 4,000 years old. This is moderate hiking and leaves from the park headquarters.
On Saturday, the Rock Art Foundation gives a guided, two-hour hiking tour into the Pecos River canyon on the Galloway White Shaman Preserve.
The flight of the shaman to the land of spirits and his metaphorical death and rebirth are a message from the past about humanity’s quest for solutions to life’s mystery. Tour takes approximately 90 minutes and entails a moderately strenuous hike down to the site which overlooks the Pecos River.
Rock Art Foundation is holding their annual Rendezvous October 27-29, 2006 at the Galloway White Shaman Preserve. The Galloway White Shaman Preserve is a 300-acre preserve owned by the Rock Art Foundation containing four pictograph sites with hundreds of images. The event includes camping at the White Shaman Preserve, entertainment Friday and Saturday, rolls and coffee on Saturday and Sunday mornings, a BBQ dinner on Saturday night, a tribute to Jim Zintgraff, and tours to the White Shaman Shelter.
Tags: rock art, cave art, Trans Pecos, Seminole Canyon, White Shaman Preserve, Fate Bell Shelter
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Catez on 28 Aug 2006 at 5:19 am #
I find ancient art very interesting. I once saw some very old Aboriginal rock paintings in Australia. It was like stepping back in time.
I just read your most recent posts - beautiful photos!