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Rock ArtSite Name: Safe Harbor Petroglyphs
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 74.378 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Mid Atlantic Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: York, PA  Nearest Village: Safe Harbor, PA
Latitude: 39.888000N  Longitude: 76.366W
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Safe Harbor Petroglyphs
Safe Harbor Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Bald Friar Exhibit courtesy of the Maryland Historic Trust Image copyright: Maryland DNR (Maryland Department of Natural Resources), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
These petroglyphs are possibly the largest surviving concentration of prehistoric rock art in the eastern United States. The images vary stylistically from representational figures to the abstract. Dating, as with all rock art, is tentative, but likely in excess of 1000 years for these examples. Many of the petroglyphs show designs associated with known art from Algonquian peoples.

From the earliest European contact these examples of rock art have been known and recorded at sites all along the Lower Susquehanna River, above its outflow to the Chesapeake Bay. Unfortunately, many have been covered over by the rising waters behind dams. In 2002 the Conejohela Chapter of Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology systematically recorded more than 300 petroglyphs on seven rocks along this stretch of the river, below the Safe Harbor Dam. Members of the Friends of the Safe Harbor Petroglyphs have documented and continue to monitor these sites.

The location given is for the public boat launch site at Pequea, Pennsylvania. The petroglyphs themselves appear on a variety of rocky islands in the river. Guided kayak and canoe tours are the best way to see the petroglyphs, which are generally narrow line incised or pecked images.

Sources:
Petroglyphs in the Susquehanna River Near Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania, Cadzow.
Petroglyphs of Pennsylvania, Kurt Carr and Paul Nevin.


Note: See comments. Central Pennsylvania petroglyphs tantalize investigators. Take a kayak tour of the sites.
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Safe Harbor Petroglyphs
Safe Harbor Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Photos in this set contain petroglyphs on rocks in the Susquehanna below Safe Harbor Dam. I found and scanned in the drawings from my Petroglyphs in the Susquehanna River Near Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania book published by the PA Historical Commission in 1934 Image copyright: wildcanoersteve (Stephen Miller), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Safe Harbor Petroglyphs
Safe Harbor Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Image from page 173 of "Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution" (1880) Title: Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Identifier: annualreportofbu1018881889smit Year: 1880 (1880s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology Subjects: Ethnology; Indians Publisher: Washington : G. P... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Safe Harbor Petroglyphs
Safe Harbor Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Image from page 175 of "Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution" (1880) Title: Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Identifier: annualreportofbu1018881889smit Year: 1880 (1880s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology Subjects: Ethnology; Indians Publisher: Washington : G. P... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Safe Harbor Petroglyphs
Safe Harbor Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Photos in this set contain petroglyphs on rocks in the Susquehanna below Safe Harbor Dam. I found and scanned in the drawings from my Petroglyphs in the Susquehanna River Near Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania book published by the PA Historical Commission in 1934 Image copyright: wildcanoersteve (Stephen Miller), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Safe Harbor Petroglyphs
Safe Harbor Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Pennsylvania Native American Early Stone Tools Scrapers, hand axes, hammer stones, hoe, loaf stone, shaft straightener and so many! Really don't know what to call some. We've been finding these without digging here for years and are a little on our own. Native American friends say OH yes, very nice, thank you for showing these to us! Experts say OH no, these are not artifacts, not at all. We have ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Safe Harbor Petroglyphs
Safe Harbor Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Bald Friar Exhibit courtesy of the Maryland Historic Trust Image copyright: Maryland DNR (Maryland Department of Natural Resources), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Safe Harbor Petroglyphs
Safe Harbor Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Bald Friar Petroglyph Bald Friar Petroglyph Image copyright: Maryland Commission on Indian Affairs (Maryland Commission on Indian Affairs), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Safe Harbor Petroglyphs
Safe Harbor Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Bald Friar Exhibit courtesy of the Maryland Historic Trust Starting May 14 at Susquehanna State Park, visitors can view a collection of ancient, carved rock fragments, known as the Bald Friar Petroglyphs. These storied stones, which are thought to have been carved by American Indians, were once part of an historic island-sized boulder that parted the waters of the Susquehanna River. Image ...

Safe Harbor Petroglyphs
Safe Harbor Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Bald Friar Petroglyph Replica Image copyright: jsfiveash (John Fiveash), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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September 2010 Petroglyph Canoe and Kayak Trips on the Susquehanna by bat400 on Tuesday, 31 August 2010
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Dauphin County offers a canoe trip on 25 Sept 2010.
Shank's Mare offers guided trips to the Safe Harbor sites on Sept 11 and Sept 18, 2010. See their website.
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Central Pennslyvania petroglyphs tantalize investigators by Andy B on Monday, 30 August 2010
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From a few yards away, they look just like rocks.

But as Paul Nevin pulls his motorboat closer, his finger traces a shape in the air, and suddenly, in the golden, waning light, the image of a bear practically leaps off the rock.

Native Americans carved images in rock on islands in the middle of rocky rapids in the Susquehanna River, near Safe Harbor, Lancaster County.

They came to this place, where rock and sky and water meet, to be closer to their mother earth, Nevin believes.

Hundreds of years ago, perhaps thousands, they carved supernatural animals, mystical thunderbirds and other half-man, half-animal creatures. They chiseled long, wavy snakes that point to the sun at solstice. They hammered out medicine men and medicine women, many kinds of animals and human and animal tracks.

Nevin, 54, of Hellam Township, York County, has studied this place for 25 years, painstakingly searching for carvings on islands, photographing them, bringing Native Americans to hear their impressions and occasionally guiding kayaking trips here. He’s watched for the angle of the sun at dawn on winter solstices and guided a flashlight over them at night to spot nuances. He’s done rubbings of the images, gently cleaned them and read historical documents to learn more.

Nevin grew up in York County, but he only found them after reading an archaeology book published in the 1930s. Since then, he’s found and identified hundreds more scattered across seven islands.

More:
http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9668&Itemid=33
With photos: Diana Fishlock's original article for The Patriot News.
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