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Rock ArtSite Name: Legend Rock
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 49.62 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Northwest Mountains Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Thermopolis, WY
Latitude: 43.798475N  Longitude: 108.59906W
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mfrincu visited on 23rd Jun 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 The place is open May through September. Outside this interval a key is needed from the Chamber of Commerce in Thermopolis. The site contains 15 petroglyph panels each explained in the free brochure. There is some damage to some but not considerable.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Retired cultural resources expert Mike Bies is working fast to document petroglyphs and pictographs on the Wind River Indian Reservation. The ancient rock art is sliding off the face of canyon walls. Barrie Lynn Bryant a documentary photographer points to a sandstone slab that is falling off. Bryant said the slab was not loose the last time he and Mike Bies checked on the petroglyphs. Drought has ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in Hot Springs County, Wyoming. Located approximately 30 miles northwest of Hot Springs State Park, Legend Rock enables visitors to view over 300 petroglyphs spanning a time-period of thousands of years. Although a handful of the rock's beautiful etchings have suffered from various forms of erosion and human defacement, a wide majority of the artwork has been well preserved for public enjoyment.

The origins of the petroglyphs are still subject to debate. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and it is preserved by the state of Wyoming as a state historic site.

The site is administered out of Hot Springs State Park where visitors are recommended to stop before visiting the site. A key and permit is required to attend the site. Keys and permits are available at the State Bath House, located at Hot Springs State Park, the Hot Springs County/ Thermopolis Chamber of Commerce and the Meeteetse Museum. There is no charge for the permit but a photo ID is required. The Bath House is open seven days a week from 8 AM to 5:30 PM, Monday through Saturday and 12 PM to 5:30 PM Sunday.

Family and group tours can also be scheduled through Hot Springs State Park. A minimum one-week notice is recommended. Tours are free to the public but availability may be limited so be sure to call the state park office ahead of time at (307) 864-2176.

While at Legend Rock be sure to stay on the marked trails and observe proper rock art etiquette and respect for the people who hold this site sacred. Defacing any part of rock panels in anyway is prohibited and can be a felony under state and federal laws. Do not touch the rock panels in any way as they are fragile and even oils from your hands can affect future site dating a research. Do not pick up or move any artifacts or rocks as they can contain valuable cultural information and even the location of the rocks is important to that data. Be sure to keep your permit with you for Bureau of Land Management and State Park Rangers to check. The site is also under video-surveillance for security reasons.

More details at Wyoming State parks.

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Below: Portals to Other Realities: Legend Rock carries 10,000 years of profound beliefs

Note: Retired cultural resources expert Mike Bies is working fast to document petroglyphs and pictographs on the Wind River Indian Reservation. The ancient rock art is sliding off the face of canyon walls, more in the comments. Also it's Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month, with an all-day event on the 9th September in Laramie
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Legend Rock submitted by mfrincu : Petroglyph panel at Legend Rock. Some of the drawings are 10,000 years old. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Legend Rock submitted by mfrincu : Birds and human-like petroglyphs at Legend Rock. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Information panel from the Legend Rock visitor center. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Artifacts located on site from the Legend Rock visitor center. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 15 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Interesting Dinwoody style power animals and shaman depicted, along with graffiti.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 14 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Note the graffiti initials and dates in this panel.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 13 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Power animals depicted in the common Dinwoody style.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 12 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Familiar petroglyphs similar to those found in adjacent sites/states.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 11 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Oldest zoomorphs at the site occupy the top right of this photo ~ 11,000 yo.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 10 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Again, examples of Dinwoody style glyphs with concentric circles (not a shield) possibly indicating a visionary experience by a shaman or "medicine person". The Shoshone elder that accompanied our party on site confirmed this hypothesis.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 9 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. These glyphs may indicate a recombination of body parts after a "spirit quest" or visionary experience in the spirit world.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 8 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Multiple glyphs.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 7 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Unfortunately, a section of this panel was stolen by vandals many years ago.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 6 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Panel anthropomorphs with horned headdresses are symbols of powerful medicine people.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 5 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Glyphs on this panel include mysterious anthropomorphs possibly indicating representations of powerful beings.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 4 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Another example of the Dinwoody style.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 3 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Zoomorphs in this panel include the famous "Thunderbird" glyph, which local elders also described as an eagle. Darkly varnished glyphs from this panel are believed to be from early Archaic period (8000 to 6000 BCE).

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Marker 2 from the Legend Rock flyer from WyoParks.gov. Anthropomorphs here are fine examples of the pervasive "Dinwoody Tradition Style" throughout Wyoming and Great Basin areas.

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Legend Rock site marker #1. Note the vandalism with someone's initials. What a shame to deface such a historical glyph!

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Legend Rock submitted by AKFisher : Visitor center at the Legend Rock site.

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Legend Rock submitted by mfrincu : Spirits depicted at Legend Rock.

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Race On To Save Wind River Petroglyphs From Sliding Off Canyon Face by Andy B on Monday, 28 August 2023
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Retired cultural resources expert Mike Bies is working fast to document petroglyphs and pictographs on the Wind River Indian Reservation. The ancient rock art is sliding off the face of canyon walls.

Barrie Lynn Bryant a documentary photographer points to a sandstone slab that is falling off. Bryant said the slab was not loose the last time he and Mike Bies checked on the petroglyphs. Drought has been hastening the disintegration process.

For a millennia or more, petroglyphs and pictographs on the rock canyon walls of the Wind River IndianReservation have been telling their stories to the sky and the sun, the wind and the rain. But their day is almost done.

“With these extended droughts we’ve been having and then sudden surges of moisture, we’re seeing a lot of mass wasting,” retired cultural resources specialist Mike Bies told Cowboy State Daily. “Big chunks of the rock face are just falling off.”

Bies has had a 30-year career with the BLM as a cultural resources specialist. A large part of that career, since 1987, has been working with the petroglyphs and pictographs at Legend Rock State Petroglyph site near Thermopolis.

More recently, however, he’s been working on a volunteer basis to photograph the ancient rock art that’s present on the Wind River Indian Reservation. His goal is to get photographs of as many rock art images as possible. He’s also scanning some of the rock faces into a program that could one day recreate 3-dimensional models of the rock art that’s being lost.

But time for the project is running out quickly. Read more at
cowboystatedaily.com/2023/08/26/race-to-save-wind-river-petroglyphs-from-sliding-off-canyon-face/

With thanks to AKFisher for the link
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Post Fire Archaeology results in Washakie Wilderness reported as "spectacular" by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 September 2015
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Post Fire Archaeology results in Washakie Wilderness reported as “spectacular”
Anthropologist Larry Todd presented a program on “Post-Fire Archaeology in the Washakie Wilderness: Recording Unknown Landscapes in NW Wyoming” at Tuesday night’s Fremont County Archaeological Society. (May 2015)

For a number of reasons, Wyoming’s mountains have not seen as much professional archaeological research as the plains and basins, Todd reported. “Therefore, our understanding of past human use of the higher elevation has been limited and perhaps unrealistic.”

Since 2002, the GRSLE (Greybull River Sustainable Landscape Ecology) project has been helping develop a better documented picture of prehistoric mountain land use. For the first five years of the project, results were spectacular, Todd said. A large number of important sites ranging in age from early Paleoindian to recent Late Prehistoric Period were discovered and documented.

“When a major wildland fire burned across one of our primary survey areas in 2006, it became clear that the mountain archaeological record was not only richer, and more spectacular, but almost overwhelming,” he said.

Todd’s presentation summarized his team’s work before and after fires and discussed the importance of post-fire site documentation and protection.

Dr. Lawrence Todd, in addition to being the current chair of the Park County Historic Preservation Commission, is Professor Emeritus in Anthropology at Colorado State University and a Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin.

A native of Meeteetse, Wyoming, Todd has conducted archaeological fieldwork and education activities for over 40 years, with his main focus being on the excavation and analysis of Plains bison kill sites. During the last decade, he’s split his retirement time between researching riverine adaptations of early modern humans in NW Ethiopia and prehistoric montane/alpine land use in NW Wyoming.

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Wyoming Archaeology Poster for 2013 by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 September 2015
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Wyoming Archaeology Poster wins national contest, again, featuring Legend Rock

For the 10th year, the Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month (WAAM) poster received first place in the Society for American Archaeology’s annual nationwide poster contest.

The 2013 poster featured a stunning photograph of the Legend Rock Petroglyph site by Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources photographer Richard Collier.

http://county10.com/2014/04/29/wyoming-archaeology-poster-wins-national-contest-features-legend-rock/
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Portals to Other Realities: Legend Rock carries 10,000 years of profound beliefs by Andy B on Friday, 08 October 2010
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Ice Age paintings and carvings in Europe are revered as sublime achievements of early humans, yet the prehistoric rock art in the American West is far less known. At Legend Rock in central Wyoming, 10,000 years of profound beliefs are inscribed on red sandstone cliffs.

As the Pleistocene period ended approximately 12,000 years ago with the passing of the last Ice Age, people were spreading from Asia to North America and south into what is now the U.S. Archaeologists have found evidence that the early immigrants took advantage of the moderating climate to cross the high passes of the Tetons and Absaroka mountains to settle among their foothills and what are now the broad, arid plains encircled by these peaks on the west and north and by the Bighorn and Owl Creek ranges to the east and south. Near the center of this basin stretching across more than 60 miles stands Legend Rock.

Rising 200 feet above the Cottonwood creek that runs near its base, Legend Rock is a cliff face over 800 yards long. It is carved with nearly 300 images scattered along its length. They are petroglyphs that archaeologists now believe range in date from about 11,000 years ago to perhaps the mid-19th century. The oldest documented images at the site are carvings of an antelope, a human figure and a life-size adult hand. The antelope and full figure are primarily rendered as outlines chipped, stroke by stroke, into the rock with a harder stone. The picture of a human hand with fingers splayed was more laboriously rendered by pecking away the entire rock surface within the boundaries of the fingers and palm. It looks as if a clay-covered hand has just been pressed to the rock.

These carved images nearly blend into the deep reddish purple of the stone's surface because both stone and engraving have accumulated layers of minerals over the millennia. This patina enables scientists to estimate the date of the carvings. In the case of the handprint, 10,700 years ago, with an error range of plus or minus 1,400 years. Adjacent engravings are dated to about 6,800 years ago. While all of these are relatively small images and show only essential shapes of their subjects, many others at Legend Rock are far larger and more richly detailed.

These monumental figures, standing almost five feet tall, are the dominant images of the cliff walls. Unlike the earliest carvings, they are not naturalistic, but depict fantastic, anthropomorphic personages. Generally dated to approximately 2,000 years ago, they both evince the importance of this site over many millennia and offer clues to its meanings for the early inhabitants who were devoted to it.

Until recently, archaeologists believed that the Shoshone people, many of whom now live on the Wind River Reservation near Legend Rock, had entered the area only a few hundred years before Europeans arrived. (The Shoshone are probably best known through Sacagawea, the woman who aided Lewis and Clark during their 1803-06 expedition to the Pacific.) New research into language groups and excavations has provided convincing evidence that the Shoshone arrived thousands of years earlier and that they or their predecessors may well have made the carvings on Legend Rock. If so, the Shoshone may offer the greatest insight into the images. To them, Legend Rock is a sacred place, where individuals communed with spirit worlds.

To invoke human and animal spirits and receive their powers, a person might spend days in an arduous ritual at the base of one of the figures inscribed on Legend Rock. Traditionally, the Shoshone believe the images were not made by humans but by the spirits they not only represent but embody. In this context, the chipped forms offer vital portals to other realities.

Although the figures cannot be identified with confidence, they do suggest both ideas of passage and tangible connections between the imaginations that conceived these designs and the hard rock of the fractured ledges. One carved figure includes a feature common at the site, a head

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