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The Lagomarsino Petroglyph Site is a 65-acre (26 ha) archeological site of petroglyphs, located in Storey County, Nevada near Virginia City. It was listed for its potential to yield information in the future and includes one contributing site with approximately 2000 items. [1] Lagomarsino Petroglyph Site, showing a few petroglyphs up close.
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A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.
[8]:79,80 Both schools of petroglyphs are thought to date to the late Bronze Age. [7] [8]:19. Sketch of a detail of an engraved rock panel showing a semi-human figure holding a rattle. The depiction of these rattles in the Malmontagne petroglyphs provides one basis, among several, for their dating to the late Bronze Age.
The site consists of a boulder carved with five petroglyphs. The petroglyphs, which archaeologists believe were created by Native Americans between 1673 and 1835, depict three anthropomorphs, an L-shaped figure, and a possible avimorph. [2] The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 2014. [1]
The rock drawings in Valcamonica (Camonica Valley) are located in the Province of Brescia, Italy, and constitute the largest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world. [1] The collection was recognized by UNESCO in 1979 and was Italy's first recognized World Heritage Site.
The Marlette Lake Water System was created to provide water for the silver mining boom in Virginia City, Nevada.These structures are now listed as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers, and are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Several of the anthropomorphic and animal-form petroglyphs have parallels in rongorongo, for instance a double-headed frigatebird (glyph 680) on a fallen moꞌai topknot, a figure which also appears on a dozen tablets. [note 10] McLaughlin (2004) illustrates the most prominent correspondences with the petroglyph corpus of Georgia Lee (1992).