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A recent discovery of Archaic period pecked petroglyphs at the Gateway site (48LN348) is the first occurrence of Uncompahgre style imagery in the northern Green River Basin. Badly impacted by superimposed Late Prehistoric period incised petroglyphs, the Uncompahgre style images are a panel of abstract lines and circular forms whose overall form is similar to other Uncompahgre style petroglyphs at a site further south along the Green River. We document these newly discovered Gateway site...
Spoils of War: Petroglyphs of Captured Women at Red Canyon, 48FR2508 (2014)
Two warrior artists documented coups at the Red Canyon site by illustrating capture hands reaching out to take enemy women. The capture of these women has an obvious sexual symbolism, with the capture hands reaching out toward the vulva in one instance and the breast in the other. This symbolism is identical to that which occurs at other Northwestern Plains rock art sites scattered from Writing-On-Stone, Alberta to Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin (Greer and Keyser 2008:95, 98; Keyser and Poetschat...