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#canyon

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Bob Tregilus

Okay, I'll admit, this was pretty cool to see. I've seen lots of 800-year-old corn cobs in the wild, but I've never seen corn husks. Nevertheless, "collector's piles" aren't being respectful of the site. We wouldn't walk into Notre Dame and make little piles of items we find inside the cathedral, right? Same difference for the Natives in this region and their ancestors who once lived in these canyons. #VisitWithRespect

A color landscape photo of a four foot long pinkish sandstone grinding stone. There a six wide grooves where corn and other seeds were ground some 800 years ago. The two middle grooves each have 800-year-old corn husks in them. The grooves on either side of the husks each have two 4-5 inch long corncobs in them. There is a petroglyph of what might be a deer on the lower right of of the stone.
#Archaeology#Desert#Canyon
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Bob Tregilus

A nice little surprise on today's canyon exploration. This is a Diné (Navajo) wikiup, likely dating to the late 19th or early 20th century. Back then it was very tough times for the Diné in the Four Corners region. Many were forced to hide in the canyons. Embarrassingly, I almost walked right by this. Lol! My mind must have been wandering. :)

A color landscape photo of a trail on the left going past a tree on the left and a wikiup on the right. The trail disappears into some bushes beyond a short, maybe 20 foot tall pinkish sandstone canyon cliff. The wikiup is cone or tepee shaped and made of very weathered, gray tree branches.
#VisitWithRespect#Archaeology#Canyon
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Bob Tregilus

I love when they leave hand prints! While we are not of the culture that created these impressions--and we have no clue what they mean--I don't think its insensitive to suggest that, in addition to what the hand prints meant to the people that made them, they also send a clear message across the millennia telling us that, "I was here."

A color landscape photo of a smooth pinkish sandstone cliff face with numerous impressions of hand prints in red and white pigment. Unlike some examples of only one hand print per individual this wall seems to so both right and left hands of the same individual. While the rock of the cliff face is smooth there's groves and lips where it has eroded over time.
#VisitWithRespect#Archaeology#Geology
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G Dan Mitchell

“Canyon Light” — Direct light, reflected light, and deep shadows as a canyon winds through desert mountains, Death Valley.

We love fantastically narrow and twisty slot canyons, but those are more of the exception to the rule. You can find those in Death Valley, but more likely you’ll find a scene like this one, at least in canyons that run through steep, rocky mountain ranges, like this one on the east side of the valley. Through much of its length it is more than wide enough that a vehicle could pass, if they were allowed here. Note also the very rugged and broken rock formations — this is not your smooth-walled Utah red rock canyon!…continues: gdanmitchell.com/2025/05/17/ca

A Death Valley canyon.
#deathvalley#nationalpark#desert
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