1 January 2013
Vulture petroglyph from Castle Gardens, Wyoming
Posted by Callan Bentley
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 Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.