Great Gallery Vignette Metal Print

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Fine art photograph of Barrier Canyon style pecked and painted pictographs created by ancient Native Americans during the Archaic Period in the Great Gallery of Horseshoe Canyon, Utah. These eerie shamanistic anthropomorphs, and associated zoomorphic paintings, are a vignette of a much larger panoramic panel of pre-Columbian rock art stretching nearly 330 feet across a south-facing canyon wall in Canyonlands National Park.


There is much debate among academics about the age of these paintings and of the cultural traditions of the nomadic Indians who created the art, as well as their relationship to other Native American groups in the region. Pigments can be carbon dated but it’s difficult to get reliable dates from these paintings through radiocarbon analysis due to contamination of the pigments and natural weathering.

Other dating methods employed suggest Archaic Period dates. Clay figurines, resembling Barrier Canyon Style anthropomorphic art, discovered in e...

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