The Blythe Intaglios: California’s Nazca Lines

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[BenLurkin]

Not too far from the Colorado River, on the low desert just west of Highway 95, lies one of the most spectacular ancient creations in California––a group of immense drawings that, like Peru’s famous Nazca lines, can only be seen properly from the air. They are called the Blythe Intaglios.

Unseen by whites until the 20th century, these huge figures hidden on the desert floor were rediscovered from the air. In 1930, aviator George Palmer was flying over the area when he spotted enormous outlines of a man, a woman, a horse, a coiled snake,

[Boogieman]

That would seem to make a lot more sense.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Not true. Evidence has been found of Clovis people butchering horses about 13000 years ago.

[Boogieman]

Didn’t know that. However, they surely were extinct long before the time these glyphs were made.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Probably, but one of the problems with this sort of thing is dating it at all. There’s nothing organic to date.Most scientists put them about a thousand years old, but they could anywhere from 10000 years old to 400 years old.

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Blythe Intaglios

Patton Intaglios, about 60 miles north of Blythe in the former Desert Training Center.

[NYer]

[wintertime]

Gee!.... So? ...Can we add another animal that the peaceful and nature loving Indians slaughtered to extinction?

[aruanan]

Sure, but the only problem is that they went extinct before any human teeth showed up.

There are petroglyphs and cave paintings of mastodons in the Americas. Humans came into the Americas in the late Pleistocene before the event that knocked out many of 75% of the genera of large mammals in North American and almost 80% South America that have gone extinct over the past 60,000 years. There is no reason to believe all species of the North American Pleistocene horses became extinct before humans showed up here. The genetic evidence is that they could have come over as long ago as 30,000 years. They were around to make pictorial representations of North American and South American megafauna and, apparently, of horses.