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The Piney Creek South Site is a prehistoric rock art site located on the south side of Piney Creek in Piney Creek Ravine State Natural Area in Randolph County, Illinois. The site consists of two groups of petroglyphs drawn on a sandstone rockshelter. The petroglyphs most likely date from the Late Woodland period, which
Scandinavian Bronze Age and Iron Age people were sophisticated craftsmen and very competent travelers by water. (Dates for ages vary with the region; in Scandinavia, the Bronze Age is roughly 1800 to 500 BCE) Many of the glyphs depict boats of which some seem to be of the Hjortspring boat type carrying around a dozen passengers. Wagons or carts ...
The interior petroglyphs include an abstract shape, two curved lines, and a serpentine line with a pit at one end; two of the petroglyphs are filled in with ochre pigment, representing the only intact example of this painting technique in Illinois. The pictograph, which has deteriorated badly, depicts a human left hand; nearby flecks of paint ...
Petroglyphs in Illinois (6 P) Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Illinois" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve; Honanki; Huerfano Butte (Arizona) Keyhole Sink; Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs Archeological District; Northern Avenue Petroglyph Site; Painted Rock Petroglyph Site; Palatki Heritage Site; Petrified Forest National Park; Saguaro National Park; Tumamoc Hill; Tutuveni; V Bar V Heritage Site; White Tank Mountain ...
The Piney Creek Site is a prehistoric rock art site located on the north side of Piney Creek in Piney Creek Ravine State Natural Area in Randolph County, Illinois. The site consists of a sandstone outcropping with over 150 petroglyph and pictograph designs, the most at a single known site in Illinois. The designs are divided into four distinct ...
The petroglyphs are carved on a granite boulder located on a wooded hillside overlooking the eastern bank of the Illinois River.This section of the river lies in the central Illinois River Valley and is administered by the state of Illinois as the Marshall State Fish and Wildlife Area.
Piney Creek Ravine State Natural Area is an Illinois state park on 198 acres (80 ha) in Jackson and Randolph Counties, Illinois, United States.. One cliff face in the ravine contains several Native American petroglyphs, along with modern graffiti, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.