Petroglyphs

Though we have been before, the petroglyph site at V bar V ranch is always worth a visit.  The glyphs (craved or pecked into the stone as opposed to painted or petrographs) are from a variety of eras "the ancients" - a period from 2000 years ago to 700 years ago and after then the ancestral Hopi - or so it guessed.

It's all pretty much a guess, which is what adds to the cool.  We don't know who they were exactly, or what they were doing though it appears there may have been a calendar as a part of the wall.

 

 There are also a number of cracks which are said to be regarded as spiritual paths to the dark or other world - and some of them have what may be shaman figures guarding them.

 

On what is said to be a much older section  there are less obvious glyphs some covered by a lichen which will eventually erase much of the whole work.

detail of the above.

The comparison of this and  an aerial photo of the Verde river shows  this  below could have been a map