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Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 18 June 2012  Page Views: 3038

Rock ArtSite Name: Delicado Shelter Alternative Name: White Shaman Shelter, 41VV1284 CM-5
Country: United States Region: The Southwest Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Comstock, TX
Latitude: 29.744000N  Longitude: 101.014W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
2
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Rock Art in Texas.
Multicolor Pictograms in a shallow cave along Dark Canyon near Devils River. The rock art here, like that in many locations in the Lower Pecos and Rio Grande valley drainages is considered to be roughly 4000 years old and older.

The people who made this art belonged to a society predating agriculture and ceramics.

Access to this site is uncertain. Although many rock art sites in this area are on public land, others are on private land or require access through private lands. The location given is approximate for the canyon's connection to Devils River, and does not indicate he location of the shelter. Tours to this site may be available, but not of a regular basis, through either
The Rock Art Foundation or SHUMLA, two local organizations dedicated to research, protection, and education.
This information will be updated when possible.

Note: Decoding the Ancient Secrets of White Shaman - Rock Art Interpretation near the Rio Grande.
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Calm Waters Ahead - Devils River
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Decoding the Ancient Secrets of White Shaman by bat400 on Monday, 18 June 2012
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Carolyn Boyd guides her pickup down a cliffside trail overlooking Dead Mans Pass, a limestone canyon cut deep into the backcountry of southwest Texas. The region known as the Lower Pecos is an arid 21,000-square-mile expanse of southwest Texas and northern Mexico surrounding the confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande. The land is barbed with cacti, teeming with rattlesnakes, and riven with impassable canyons. But more than 4,000 years ago, these barrens were home to a flourishing culture of hunter-gatherers, creators of some of the world’s most complex and beautiful prehistoric rock art. The literal meaning of those paintings had been dismissed as an unsolvable mystery—until recently.

Boyd parks at the bottom of the canyon. She sets a brisk pace up the side of the canyon. Her destination is Delicado Shelter, one of some 300 shallow caves in the region known for paintings of human figures, deer, canines, felines, birds, rabbits, snakes, and other desert animals. Boyd, an archaeologist and director of SHUMLA
(Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, will spend the afternoon scouring the shelter for insight into the ancient residents and their spiritual world.

Through decades of dogged work, Boyd has also developed a system to understand this enigmatic art. Working like a detective, she discovered a symbolic code that reveals narratives in the paintings, which she believes can be read, almost like an ancient language. Just as finding the Rosetta stone in Egypt enabled linguists to decipher ancient hieroglyphs, these paintings help unlock the secrets of a majestic religious system that blanketed Mesoamerica nearly four millennia before the arrival of Columbus. Boyd has discovered that myths and rituals similar to those written in the rocks have survived in the Huichol, a modern tribe now living in the mountains of western Mexico, and in other cultures throughout Mexico and the American Southwest.


For more of the ariticle, see discovermagazine.com. Thanks to coldrum for the link.

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