Overview

The Ash Springs Petroglyph Site is an area of lightly desert-varnished boulders on a low hill overlooking the verdant Pahranagat Valley. Ancient people apparently liked the view, as they used the site as a winter camp. While there, they flaked stones, broke ceramic vessels, and etched the rocks with scenes of bighorn sheep, human figures, and intricate designs of all sorts.

Listed here are details of Site 6. This site consists of two boulders with petroglyphs: a round boulder and a flatter bedrock boulder, both of which are marked. The large, round boulder was lightly marked, but the flatter boulder has a curious figure, which to my eye looks like a turtle. The people who wrote the old brochure thought it looked like a voluptuous woman, but maybe they had been in the desert too long.

Links to Area Map and Site Map.