He is considered one of the well-regarded authorities on the Coso Range Rock Art traditions and Coso Region prehistory in general. The 20,000 images already documented surpass in number most other collections, and the archeological resources are remarkably undisturbed. The Coso petroglyphs are sacred to the region’s former inhabitants, so guests to the Rock Art District (a National Historic Landmark) are asked to view them respectfully. The Coso Range is a 90 square-mile area in eastern California, USA, with 35,000 rock art petroglyphs and carvings. Mojave Desert, natural, cultural history exhibits art galleries educational programs, Coso Petroglyph Tours Ancient Artists of the Desert The Coso Mountains of eastern California contain the greatest concentration of aboriginal rock art in the western hemisphere. Coso Rock Art District, containing the Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons, is a rock art site containing over 100,000 Paleo-Indian and/or Native American Petroglyphs. He holds active research interests in forager ecology, Native American consultation in cultural resource management contexts, rock art studies and peopling of the Americas. The 20,000 images already documented surpass in number most other concentrations, and the archeological resources are remarkably undisturbed. Indian Wells Valley lies to the south of this location. The Coso petroglyphs are sacred to the region’s former inhabitants, so guests to the Rock Art District (a National Historic Landmark) are asked to view them respectfully. With as many as 100,000 images dating as far back as 16,000 years before the present, the Coso District is considered the greatest concentration of petroglyphs in … The Coso Rock Art District, a National Historic Landmark deep in the U.S. Navy's testing station at China Lake, contains one of America's most impressive petroglyphic and archeological complexes. Coso Rock Art National Historic Landmark Tours depart from the Maturango Museum at 100 E. Las Flores Ave. Abstract. Correlation of rock art sites in the Coso Range with game trails, ambush locations, dummy hunters, hunting blinds, and the overwhelming depiction of sheep and hunting scenes led Grant, Baird and Pringle to pose sympathetic magic as the purpose of the drawings.
The Coso Rock Art District, China Lake Naval Weapons Station, Eastern California From Bill Becher’s NY Times slideshow .
[1] The Coso Range is between the Sierra Nevada and the Argus Range. The Coso Range is between the Sierra Nevada and the Argus Range. The Coso Range has a concentration of strikingly beautiful and highly consistent rock art engravings, consisting of animals, figures and symbols. Coso rock art has become famous for its stylized representational symbolic system, a system that has intrigued—and baffled—archeologists and other observers for decades. Indian Wells Valley lies to the south of this location. As part of Ridgecrest’s annual Petroglyph festival, we took the tour out to see the incredible collection of petroglyphs in the Coso Rock Art National Landmark on the Naval Air Weapons Station- largest collection of native petroglyphs in the Western Hemisphere. Coso Rock Art District, containing the Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons, is a rock art site containing over 100,000 Paleo-Indian and/or Native American Petroglyphs.

The images tell the story.”