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<< Our Photo Pages >> Signal Hill - Rock Art in United States in The Southwest

Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 20 September 2006  Page Views: 8682

Rock ArtSite Name: Signal Hill
Country: United States Region: The Southwest Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Tucson, Arizona
Latitude: 32.292000N  Longitude: 111.207W
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.
5 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
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4 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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Signal Hill
Signal Hill submitted by bat400 : Signal Hill, Pima County, Arizona. Large spiral petroglyph on Signal Hill in the Saguaro National Park. The figure is placed on a sloping bolder. The angle is such that the surface facing north is in the shadow from the fall to the spring equinox and only lit in the "summer" half of the year. Photo by bat400, June 2003. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Petroglyphs in USA. Signal Hill, Pima County, Arizona. Signal Hill is located in an area used by the Hohokam culture and is assumed to date from their time period, within a few hundred years of 1000AD. The hill is not particularly high, but lies by itself some little distance from higher hills to the east, giving it a clear and unobstructive view of the surrounding area and the western horizon.

The petroglyphs depict animals, human figures, and a variety of circular and spiral patterns. The case that the hill was used as a solar observation point with some ceremonial attachment has been put forward most convincingly by Nile Root, an esteemed photographer and astronomer. Root passed away in 2004, but his studies of Signal Hill and its petroglyphs were published by Sky and Telescope, the popular but scholarly magazine. Root's own website is still maintained and may be seen here. The first portion is very straightforward and convincingly describes petroglyphs placed in locations that allow particular patterns of light and shadow associated with the days immediately around the summer solstice and other solar limit and transition dates. (I have read nothing that indicates that the boulders themselves may have been positioned to augment these alignments.) The balance of Root's presentation covers much more speculative associations - but they are clearly identified as unproven.

I visited the site in the late 1980's and in 2003. At that time one could easily climb Signal Hill to examine the figures, although some areas near the top are now blocked to prevent damage to the site due to its popularity. All the photos I have included were taken from areas accessible in 2003. Signal Hill is part of the Saguaro National Park - a wonderful place of spectacular desert beauty.
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Signal Hill submitted by durhamnature : Photo from "Prehistoric Ruins ..." via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Signal Hill submitted by bat400 : Signal Hill, Pima County, Arizona. Petroglyphs on Signal Hill in the Saguaro National Park (Western Division.) This is a view as you are climbing up the hill. Watch out for rattlesnakes. Photo by bat400, June 2003.

Signal Hill
Signal Hill submitted by bat400 : Signal Hill, Pima County, Arizona. Sun or star petroglyphs on Signal Hill in the Saguaro National Park. The stones on this hill are liberally studded with petroglyphs of animals and other patterns. Photo by bat400, June 2003.

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Hohokam Indians of the Tucson Basin (ebook) by Andy B on Monday, 14 April 2014
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Hohokam Indians of the Tucson Basin
By Linda M. Gregonis & Karl J. Reinhard
The University of Arizona Press, Tucson
(A Complete Online Version of the Original Printed Book)

Until the spring of 1979, visitors to Tucson and the city's residents had little opportunity to learn about the "earliest Tucsonans"-the prehistoric Hohokam-even though much of the Tucson area had been occupied for many centuries by the Hohokam. This booklet and an exhibit at Fort Lowell Park in Tucson have been prepared to help interpret the lifeway of these early desert people.

http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/HOHOKAM/TITLHOHO.HTM
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The Marana Community in the Hohokam World (ebook) by Andy B on Monday, 14 April 2014
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The Marana Community in the Hohokam World
by Suzanne K. Fish, Paul R. Fish, and John H. Madsen, Editors
The University of Arizona Press, Tucson
(A Complete Online Version of the Original Printed Book)

ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA NUMBER 56

The Marana Community is a social and territorial unit of Classic period Hohokam settlement in the Tucson Basin of southern Arizona during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (A.D. 1150-1350). Prehistorically, this multisite entity drew its essence from the social relationships, settlements, and land use of a dynamic population of desert cultivators. Our ability to recognize and understand the Marana Community today derives in large part from marks on a map. The following pages trace our pathways to reconstructing production and society in this former time and place and present our findings to date. As a more general goal, we hope this study will serve as an argument for the potential of a survey methodology not yet fully realized in Southwestern archaeology.

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