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A pictograph is an image drawn or painted on a rock face. A petroglyph is an image carved into a rock face. The word comes from the Greek words petro-, meaning "stone" (think of Peter which means rock Matthew 16:18) and glyphein meaning "to carve", and was originally coined in French as pétroglyphe. Petroglyphs are found world-wide, and are often (but not always) associated with prehistoric peoples.
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument, southern Utah, USA
Petroglyphs on a Bishop Tuff tableland, eastern California, USA
Southern Utah, USA
Southern Utah, USA
Arches National Park
Arizona, USA
Columbia River Gorge, Washington, USA
Pete's creek Belfast area of Lassen county California, USA
Sites in North America where petroglyphs can be found include:
- Arches National Park, Utah
- Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
- Death Valley National Park, California
- Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado and Utah
- Columbia Hills State Park, Washington
- The Cove Palisades State Park, Oregon
- Jeffers Petroglyphs, Minnesota
- Kanopolis State Park, Kansas
- Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia
- Lava Beds National Monument, Tule Lake, California
- Leo Petroglyph, Leo, Ohio[1]
- Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument, Utah
- Mina, Nuevo León, Mexico
- Olympic National Park, Washington
- Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Petroglyph National Monument
- Petroglyphs Provincial Park, north of Peterborough, Ontario
- Petroglyph Provincial Park, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada [2]
- Sedona, Arizona
- Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada
- South Mountain Park, Arizona
- St John, USVI
- Three Rivers Petroglyphs, New Mexico [3]
- West Virginia glyphs
- Writing Rock State Historical Site, North Dakota
- Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, East of Milk River, Alberta
- White Tank Mountain Regional Park, Waddell, Arizona
- Pete's creek Belfast Lassen county California BLM (Shamans cave with solar calender)
- Anza-Borrego State Park California Way off Highway 52 (mortar holes too)
- Shuswap Lake Provincial Parks, BC
