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<< Our Photo Pages >> Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve - Rock Art in United States in The Southwest

Submitted by TimPrevett on Sunday, 21 March 2021  Page Views: 5849

Rock ArtSite Name: Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve Alternative Name: Deer Valley Rock Art Center, Hedgpeth Hills site
Country: United States Region: The Southwest Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Phoenix  Nearest Village: Sun City
Latitude: 33.677310N  Longitude: 112.15265W
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
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 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.
 5 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
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bat400 visited on 15th Mar 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 A site with many, many individual glyphs. Take binoculars to better appreciate the art, which includes both representational figures and those that appear much more abstract.
A very well presented site with easy access on a flat quarter mile sand, gravel and concrete footpath. (Wheel chair access with minor assistance is possible on the trail.)

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Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett : Specimen of the large amount of rock art to be found here at Deer Valley Rock Art Center. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A superb rock art centre near Phoenix, AZ with excellent interpretational facilities. The rock art was produced by Archaic (before 150 CE,) Hohokam (1 - 1450 CE,) and Patayan (ca. 900-800 CE) cultures. It focuses on the rock art found a short way from the building on an outcropping of basalt boulders found along a quarter mile trail facing south east, and in general North American context.

I really recommend a visit. The museum and interpretive centre discusses the site and its petroglyphs as well as tools and pottery associated with the site and Hohokam culture. Archaeology of the site includes features aside from the rock art which are described in the museum, but are not accessible to visitors. These include the remains of a pit house with middens and cooking areas, and the foundations of two masonry rooms top the outcropping where the majority of petroglyphs were found.

The centre was renamed (previously, Deer Valley Rock Art Center) to emphasize the acreage of desert preserved from encroaching development, the fragility of such sites with increased tourism, and to indicate that a small number of rock art pieces were actually moved to their current location when the nearby dam was built. (All moved pieces are so identified.) The preserve is the result of a partnership by a number of organizations, including the Army Corps of Engineers, Maricopa Flood Control District and Arizona State University. The site is protected and operated by Arizona State University.

The concrete and steel building was designed by architect Will Bruder, famous for much larger public and commercial buildings in the southwest.
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Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by bat400 : The "hunter's" panel. A detail of these images is used as a symbol for the Deer Valley site. Photo by bat400, March 2018. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by bat400 : A the "stag" detail of the panel. Photo by bat400, March 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by bat400 : Petroglyphs of various ages and styles are found on the basalt boulders at this site. Photo by bat400, March 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by bat400 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by bat400 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett : Specimen of the large amount of rock art to be found here at Deer Valley Rock Art Center.

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett : I don't recall seeing signage for these artefacts, but I strongly suspect they are mortars for food preparation. (1 comment)

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett : Exiting the center towards the trail.

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett : The viewers for helping the eye pick out particular petroglyphs. Metal is encassed in insulation as in temps of 110F / mid 40s C, the metal is unbearable to touch.

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett : One of the viewers for helping the eye pick out particular petroglyphs. Metal is encassed in insulation as in temps of 110F / mid 40s C, the metal is unbearable to touch.

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Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett

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Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett : Apologies for the 'off topic' picture - but this is one critter you really don't want to unexpectedly meet: rattlesnakes. A member of staff at the center made me aware of these - there are three in the picture, and a fourth had gone subterranean as I got my camera into action. This was the only time in 3 months in the US this year that I met any snakes - at this rock art center - wild. (1 comment)

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett : Looking back towards the center, with the rock art trail on the left hand side, other displays on the right hand side.

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett : One of the many very helpful interpretive displays in the centre - on the rock art here, and elsewhere in the USA.

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett : Entering the centre, and looking towards the trail.

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett : Center sign next to the car park.

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve submitted by TimPrevett : Signage along the trail.

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Re: Deer Valley Rock Art Center by bat400 on Monday, 12 March 2018
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Also of interest: A page on the Arizona Memory Project with photos and recorded messages from volunteer docents. http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/landingpage/collection/left
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'Hardwired' to create rock doodles; professor says ancient art was 'instinct' by bat400 on Wednesday, 09 December 2009
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Images pecked in stone hundreds to thousands of years ago could be for religious reasons, to mark territories or simple doodles such as those still made today by children and adults.

That is according to Dr. Ekkehart Malotki, a preeminent researcher into the history of rock art. "Creating art is a distinct piece of our biological make-up," he told about 50 people Saturday during his lecture at Deer Valley Rock Art Center. "It is an instinct."

Malotki, a professor emeritus of languages at Northern Arizona University, said no one would ever know the true meaning of images pecked or painted on stone pallets because the artists are dead and did not leave a record or "Rosetta Stone" to decipher the images' meanings. The oldest known rock art is a 300,000-year-old panel of small chipped cups, called cupules, found in India. He believes that the images of animals and people evolved from early artists' doodles.

"The non-iconic abstract images preceded the representational (humans and animals) imagery," he said. "The nice images are what people focus on, but I like the non-iconic art."

Malotki has scoured Arizona and around the globe studying and documenting rock art for his recent book, "The Rock Art of Arizona: Art for Life's Sake".

He believes that the ancient artists did not peck or paint images for decoration, but rather as a "hardwired" need to create art as a survival technique, or a type of spiritual offering, "to increase their odds of survival."

"That is why I used the subtitle, 'Art for Life's Sake,' because the act of making the image was more important to them than the final result," he said.
Malotki has teamed with evolutionary psychologist Ellen Dissanayake to study a theory that the reason images found in Arizona are identical to those found in the Sahara and elsewhere is because humans have a core of biologically universal images they are born with.

Malotki lists 15 "human universals," called phosphenes, found in rock art around the world. Some include circles, zigzags, spirals, dots (cupules) and boxes and rows of lines. "They are the same doodles children draw in school and adults draw while talking on the telephone," he said.

Not all scientists agree with Malotki and Dissanayake's ideas of iconic rock art evolving from instinctual doodling. He said that is because some people's minds are trapped in a state of pareidolia. Pareidolia is the tendency for people to see images they are familiar with in something that is random or disorganized. For example, seeing faces in clouds or a man on the moon.

To learn more about Malotki or to view his photo gallery of rock art from around the world, visit oak.ucc.nau.edu/malotki/.

For more, see Prescott Daily Courier.
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