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RE: HIKING SEDONA - Trip Report from Hi-rise and V-V Ranch - Petroglyphs in N. Arizona

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That's brilliant travel experience. You've to hiking world historical amazing place.The researchers watched the interplay of the sunlight at certain spots in different moments of the year. In the meantime, the documentation grew to 122 panels of petroglyphs at the Horseshoe Mesa and 107 at Middle Mesa. Altogether 138 new panels of petroglyphs were found, whilst others were rediscovered. But many of the panels contained dozens of individual petroglyphs. This sums up to the impressive number of more than 1,500 separate glyphs being recorded for the first time. The Puebloans were an ancient Native American culture, who lived in southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado. Researchers says that they developed as a part of the Oshara Tradition (circa 5,440 BC - 460 AD), which grew from the Paleo-Indian Picosa culture. Ancestral Puebloans lived in a range of structures from small family pit houses to larger buildings like grand pueblos - cliff side dwellings for defense and house clans. They especially dominated the Colorado Plateau and connected hundreds of communities around them. Among the petroglyphs, the most eye-catching is the one located on the southern face of a sandstone ledge at Horseshoe Mesa’s northern end. It is known as Panel 50, and was recorded for the first time in 1931. Purcell confirmed that it is an imaging calendar, which means a time-tracking feature that uses the play of light and shadow. The panel is a set of eight circles, each 7 to 9 centimeters (3 to 4 inches) across, arranged in rows of two, three, two, and one. Nice you decides to share community.

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STUNNING comment, thank you very much!
Wow, we really have quite a community here, were we can record these introspective views!

I want to hear MORE ABOUT SUN CALENDARS because all my friends now are saying, I MISSED THE BEST PART and they had a sun calendar and view points in the rocks like other ancient civilizations.

It only gets more amazing..