A collection of 12 petroglyph sites in the Dona Ana Mountains of southern New Mexico has been named to the National Register of Historic Places, giving the sites the highest level of national significance.
"The archaeological sites in the (newly listed district) stand out from other sites in the Southwestern United States because of the association of rock imagery with archaeological deposits and artifacts," said Katherine Slick, director of the Historic Preservation Division. Unlike most of New Mexico's other districts, the Summerford sites are in close proximity to archaeological deposits that include other artifacts that researchers can use to learn more about the people who first inhabited the Southwest.
"These figures are not simply an early form of graffiti," Glenna Dean, a state archaeologist, said. "They have meaning, but we don't understand the relationship of the images to daily life of identifiable groups in the past."
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