1 January 2013
Vulture petroglyph from Castle Gardens, Wyoming
Posted by Callan
Happy new year!
Time marches on – and here’s a reminder of times past…
Check this out – a couple of what appear to be vultures, etched by native Americans into the siltstone at Castle Gardens, Wyoming:
Diameter of the outer circle is probably 1.5 or 2 feet. My annotated (and generally embelished) version:
I love the “hunched” shoulders on these birds, and their expressionless faces. What’s the small inner circle? An egg? The moon? It seems to have a slight green color.
Callan Bentley is an assistant professor of geology at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Virginia. He is particularly interested in structural geology and the evolution of the Appalachian mountain belt. Callan draws cartoons and writes for EARTH magazine. He lives in the Fort Valley of Virginia.
