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Rock Art on basalts of the Sentinel volcanic field

Rock Art on basalts of the Sentinel volcanic field

Cliff Hetz (Arizona Western College Archaeology) and students documenting Archaic, Patayan, and Hohokam rock-art elements at Sears Point, southwest of Gila Bend, Arizona. Rock-art here is pecked into massive basaltic lavas exposed on the west edge of the Sentinel volcanic field. Many of the hundreds (1000s?) of rock-art elements are arranged in panels comprising several dozen elements. (If you visit Sears Point, please do not touch or otherwise despoil the rock-art.)

Photographer: Mike Conway

Photo Date: circa 2006