Thousands of years ago, the Coso Shoshone people left their mark in the Mojave Desert in the form of stick figures and animals carved into rock faces. In November, the Ridgecrest Petroglyph and ...

2005-10-23 04:00:00 PDT Coso Mountains (Inyo County)-- Our group stops for a minute under the rotisserie lamp of the high-desert sun and considers a crude, 1,000-year-old picture chipped into the ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The peak of Petroglyph Hill offers access to some of the most spectacular views in the Galisteo Basin, with an overlook that includes Cerrillos Hills, Burnt Corn Pueblo and the ...

I can’t believe I lived in Kern County more than 20 years before I toured the Little Petroglyph Canyon on the China Lake Naval Weapons base. I even covered that base for a couple years! The Maturango ...

Go for a hike along West Mountain in south Utah County and you may stumble upon an anthropomorphic figure faded into a rust-colored boulder. Keep hiking and you may find another rock, this one ...

Out there among the bursage and prickly pear, the boulders relay messages from another time, when hardy, sun-browned people took sustenance from the desert. You can see the story they left behind ...

Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Calif. — THERE are some nifty pictures to be seen in them thar hills -- once, that is, you’ve risen at the crack of dawn, obtained security clearance, had your ...

Earlier this year, I was asked to contribute to a “Things to do in Lancaster County this spring” article in which my coworkers and I suggested fun things to do outside. I wrote about wanting to visit ...

Rex Buchanan discusses the book "Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills," on Nov.18, 2019. He co-authored the book with Burke Griggs and Joshua Svaty. Carved deep into sandstone, primitive drawings ...