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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.
Black Mountain (Pima County, Arizona) Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District; Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve; Honanki; Huerfano Butte (Arizona) Keyhole Sink
Petroglyphs, estimated to be 20,000 years old are classified as protected monuments and have been added to the tentative list of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. Petroglyphs are found worldwide, and are often associated with prehistoric peoples.
Native American petroglyphs have been discovered within the park on cliffs overlooking Difficult Run. [2]The Patowmack Canal, which George Washington partially funded, was a one-mile (1.6 km) bypass canal that began operating in 1785 to give small barges the opportunity to skirt around the falls and to distribute manufactured goods upstream and raw materials downstream.
Fossilized mastodon remains of a single individual were found at SV-2 that may have been killed, butchered, and cooked, indicating possible Pre Clovis activity in the Saltville Valley. [ 2 ] Musk-Oxen were discovered in the Saltville Valley by Clayton E. Ray during joint salvage test excavations held from 1966 through 1967 by the Smithsonian ...
“Archaeological evidence of continental barracks in Virginia is rare,” the foundation says in a blog post. “This site, which was occupied from 1777-1781, is particularly valuable since it ...
Archaeologists uncovered a 480-year-old gun in Arizona. It’s now considered the oldest firearm ever found within the continental United States.
[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.