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Fine art photograph showcasing a complex aggregation of Fremont culture petroglyphs on a heavily patinated cliff face in Emery County, Utah. The Rochester Creek rock art panel faces east, high above the junction of Rochester Creek and the Muddy River.

The anthropomorphic and zoomorphic images depicted in the panel are attributed to the Fremont Culture, though elements share stylistic similarities with later Hopi iconography, and are perhaps antecedents of Hopi traditions. It is theorized that prehistoric Fremont people may have banded together with groups of other cultural traditions to become ancestors of the present day Hopis. According to some accounts, the scene on the Rochester panel represents a Hopi creation myth.

Archaeoastronomers are fascinated with the likelihood that this panel is an ancient observatory, serving as a solar calendar to track the seasons through the use of a gnomon that cast its shadow on elements of the panel that correspond with each solstice...

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