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<< Other Photo Pages >> Winnemucca Lake Petroglyphs - Rock Art in United States in The West

Submitted by bat400 on Saturday, 17 August 2013  Page Views: 7589

Rock ArtSite Name: Winnemucca Lake Petroglyphs
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 81.248 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The West Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Revo, NV
Latitude: 40.140000N  Longitude: 119.3W
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Winnemucca Lake Petroglyphs
Winnemucca Lake Petroglyphs submitted by bat400_photo : A Colorado University led team has found that petroglyphs discovered in western Nevada date to at least 10,500 years ago, making them the oldest rock art ever dated in North America. Photo courtesy University of Colorado (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in Washoe and Pershing Counties, Nevada. Incised and pecked petroglyphs on large limestone boulders along the shores of the now dry Winnemucca Lake. The symbols and patterns of deeply carved lines are repeated over the surface of entire boulders.

Researchers from Colorado University have dated the petroglyphs to as early as 14,800 years ago and as recently as 10,500 years ago based on the geology of the region and the build up of carbonate coatings from changing lake water elevation. The oldest date is in the range of human trace remains at Paisley Caves.

Location is for the dry lakebed itself, and not the petroglyph site. Access to the petroglyph site is unknown. Please see the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe museum and visitor's center, or ranger station for more information and dayuse permits. Also see the tribe's photography policy.

Note: New Colorado University led research effort dates oldest known petroglyphs in North America - 14,800 years old.
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New CU-Boulder led research dates oldest known petroglyphs in N. America by bat400 on Friday, 16 August 2013
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New analysis led by a University of Colorado Boulder researcher shows the oldest known petroglyphs in North America, which are cut into several boulders in western Nevada, date to at least 10,500 years ago and perhaps even as far back as 14,800 years ago. The petroglyphs located at the Winnemucca Lake petroglyph site 35 miles northeast of Reno consist of large, deeply carved grooves and dots forming complex designs on several large limestone boulders that have been known about for decades, said CU-Boulder researcher Larry Benson, who led the new effort. Although there are no people, animals or handprint symbols depicted, the petroglyph designs include a series of vertical, chain-like symbols and a number of smaller pits deeply incised with a type of hard rock scraper.

Benson and his colleagues used several methods to date the petroglyphs, including determining when the water level the Winnemucca Lake subbasin -- which back then was a single body of water connecting the now-dry Winnemucca Lake and the existing Pyramid Lake -- reached the specific elevation of 3,960 feet.

The elevation was key to the study because it marked the maximum height the ancient lake system could have reached before it began spilling excess water over Emerson Pass to the north. When the lake level was at this height, the petroglyph-peppered boulders were submerged and therefore not accessible for carving, said Benson, an adjunct curator of anthropology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.

A paper on the subject was published this month in the Journal of Archaeological Science: "Dating North America's oldest petroglyphs, Winnemucca Lake subbasin, Nevada," 2013..

According to Benson, a white layer of carbonate made of limestone precipitated from the ancient, overflowing Winnemucca Lake had coated some of the petroglyph carvings near the base of the boulders. Previous work by Benson showed the carbonate coating elsewhere in the basin at that elevation had a radiocarbon date of roughly 11,000 years ago.

Benson sampled the carbonate into which the petroglyphs were incised and the carbonate that coated the petroglyphs at the base of the limestone boulder. The radiocarbon dates on the samples indicated the carbonate layer underlying the petroglyphs dated to roughly 14,800 ago. Those dates, as well as additional geochemical data on a sediment core from the adjacent Pyramid Lake subbasin, indicated the limestone boulders containing the petroglyphs were exposed to air between 14,800 and 13,200 years ago and again between about 11,300 and 10,500 years ago.

"Prior to our study, archaeologists had suggested these petroglyphs were extremely old," said Benson, also an emeritus USGS scientist. "Whether they turn out to be as old as 14,800 years ago or as recent as 10,500 years ago, they are still the oldest petroglyphs that have been dated in North America."

While Native American artifacts found in the Lahontan Basin -- which encompasses the Winnemucca Lake subbasin -- date to the time period of 11,300 to 10,500 years ago, it does not rule out the possibility that the petroglyphs were carved as early as 14,800 years ago, Benson said.

"We have no idea what they mean," Benson said of the Winnemucca Lake petroglyphs. "But I think they are absolutely beautiful symbols. Some look like multiple connected sets of diamonds, and some look like trees, or veins in a leaf. There are few petroglyphs in the American Southwest that are as deeply carved as these, and few that have the same sense of size."

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