Birds and long-legged animals are among the figures carved on the Ceredo Petroglyph, one of the state's few protected Native American rock carvings.
Posted on 11/12/2006 8:02:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Ghostly human images, intriguing geometric designs, and the likenesses of turtles, beavers, birds, snakes and tracks made by game animals are fading at an alarming rate from the stone surfaces on which they were carved 400 to 1,000 years ago... Photos of the rock taken decades ago clearly show the carved images of a long-legged, long-billed bird, several other bird-like figures and a beaver. Today, a few faintly etched lines can be seen on the boulder's surface, but it's virtually impossible to discern what they represent... According to Maslowski, archaeologists believe most West Virginia petroglyphs date to the Late Prehistoric or Protohistoric Period, which ranges from 1200 to 1690 A.D. Algonquins are believed to have carved several of the Ohio Valley petroglyphs... Some objects carved on West Virginia boulders also appear as figures on the birch bark scrolls of the Ojibwa. While petroglyphs can be found from the Northern Panhandle to the Southern Coalfields, probably the state's most important ancient rock carving site is located on a small embankment overlooking the Guyandotte River between Salt Rock and West Hamlin near the Lincoln-Cabell County line... The Salt Rock site was first documented in 1848 in "Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley," a publication of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Birds and long-legged animals are among the figures carved on the Ceredo Petroglyph, one of the state's few protected Native American rock carvings.
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According to Oppenheimer the Ojibwa have the highest % of the halpotype X gene (some call it European) than all other Indian groups in America.
We have a set of their snow shoes.
You took the Indian's snow shoes? Give them back...they'll need them this winter.
Actually, the Ojibwa's belong to my husband, mine are Bear Paws. ;0)
If Robert Byrd drew 'em once, he can draw 'em again.
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First time I've heard of this artistic treasure from the past.
Robert Byrd has so much power in his state, you'd think he could channel some of it for art preservation. Oh wait, the Dems only protect "art" like Robert Maplethorpe's crucifix stuck in urine.
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