Hickman Bridge Trail Petroglyph - Capitol Reef National Park, UT
N 38° 17.322 W 111° 13.586
12S E 480197 N 4237871
At this point in the Hickman Bridge trail you will see a lone petroglyph on the rock wall. Please do not touch it or the surrounding rock as you could damage or deface it.
Waymark Code: WMTARJ
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 10/24/2016
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This is the same canyon wall as the much more publicized petroglyphs further to the West. It is an abstract zigzag line which might represent a snake but who really knows? Zigzag lines have been attributed to the Archaic culture dating from between 5,500 BC to AD 1.
A National Park Service site indicates that "Archaic hunters and gatherers migrated through the canyons hunting game that is common now (bighorn sheep, deer, elk, pronghorn)" so I guess this theory is plausible.
Type of Pictograph: Petroglyph
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