Nine Mile Canyon - Great Hunt Panel
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walkerm
N 39° 46.816 W 110° 08.102
12S E 574070 N 4403727
The best of the many rock art works in this canyon was created by the Fremont Indians who occupied this area some 700-1300 years ago.
Waymark Code: WM55M0
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 11/15/2008
Views: 54
Note the hunters with bows and arrows, the horned shamanic figure at the top, and the shield figure in the middle of all the bighorn sheep. This panel may have been created to bring good luck on the hunt.
The Fremont culture or Fremont people is a pre-Columbian archaeological culture which received its name from the Fremont River in the U.S. state of Utah where the first Fremont sites were discovered. The Fremont River itself is named for John Charles Frémont, an American explorer. It inhabited sites in what is now Utah and parts of Nevada, Idaho and Colorado from AD 700 to 1300. It was adjacent to, roughly contemporaneous with, but distinctly different from the Anasazi culture. These Indians were hunter-gathers, and may have spoken different languages, or had widely divergent dialects (Madsen). Fremont Indians occupied this desolate land several hundred years before Europeans arrived in America.
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Type of Pictograph: Petroglyph
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