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Rock ArtSite Name: Jeffers PetroglyphsCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 101.29 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Comfrey, MN
Latitude: 44.092250N Longitude: 95.052722W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Rock Art in United States
Amid the prairie grasses are islands of uncovered rock, where American Indian ancestors left carvings — petroglyphs — humans, deer, elk, buffalo, turtles, thunderbirds, atlatls, and arrows. They tell a story that spans more than 7,000 years.
The earliest carvings at Jeffers Petroglyphs were created as much as 7,000 years ago. The most recent were made about 250 years ago. This long time span makes Jeffers one of, if not the, oldest continuously used sacred sites in the world.
The site preserves more than 4,000 American Indian images carved into solid horizontal irregularly-shaped Sioux quartzite outcrops. Among the earliest carvings found here are images of buffalo and atlatls, or throwing sticks. Atlatls and darts were used to hunt buffaloes before the bow and arrow were developed 1,200 years ago. These symbols, along with other images carved on the rock, such as thunderbirds and turtles, remain important in American Indian culture. It is interesting to note that the stones do not record bows and arrows. Also "missing" are glyphs representing horses, indicating that the site was no longer used by the late 1700s, although rock art from later times is prevalent.
The carvings of deer, buffalo, turtles, thunderbirds and humans are more than art of mimicry of the natural environment. They are powerful cultural symbols of the complex communities that inhabit the prairies of southwestern Minnesota and still thrive today.
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