Dinosaur National Monument Rock Art--Cub Creek

A cairn found in Cohab Canyon, Capitol Reef National Park.

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Dinosaur National Monument

Campsite

Ancient Ruins
and Rock Art

This page contains a discussion of the rock art found within Dinosaur National Monument, in the Cub Creek area. All photographs are from our our personal collection. If you'd like to see more rock art from this location, or if you'd like to see higher resolution or larger images, send us an e-mail message and we'll see what we can do.

Rock Art

Cub Creek

Most visitors to Dinosaur National Monument focus on the large fossil finds in the area. But there are also some very interesting examples of rock art in the Quarry Area. They can generally be found near Map Coordinates (NAD83): ~ 40 25.17 N; 109 12.012 W; at an elevation of 5,064 feet.

For more information on how to preserve and protect these priceless historic treasures:

See Monument brochure on Petroglyphs and Pictographs.
See also the rock art found in the Jones Hole area of Dinosaur National Monument.
See American Antiquities Act of 1906.
See Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979.
Archaeological Resources Protection Act Hotline: 800-227-7286.
See Archaeological Site Etiquette

This particular panel seems to be a combination of petroglyphs and pictographs. These particular anthropomorphic characters are a little different from those we've seen in other areas of Utah. Especially since they seem to have had color added at a later date.

Rock art panel in the Cub Creek area of Dinosaur National Monument.

This is a close up of the panel above, to better see the addition of color.

This example of a petroglyph panel shows a variety of figures. The central anthropomorph image appears to be wearing earrings, yet is well endowed, so is apparently male.

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More Rock Art

All of these photos have been resized and manipulated in Photoshop to give the best representation of the image. Some color distortion is inevitable. If you would like to see higher quality versions of these shots, or if you would like to use these images for any purpose, please contact us and we would be glad to help if we can.

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This page was last updated Monday, August 11, 2008

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