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 11. This site consists of one boulder with a broad, west-facing rock face with petroglyphs. In addition, there is what remains of a rock alignment on the north and south sides, so perhaps two families were living here.

This site is also interesting in that Native Peoples rarely put new petroglyphs on top of older ones, but at this site, one writer placed abstract lines in top of older bighorn sheep stories. These are rock stories, so perhaps the new story incorporated the older ones.

Links to Area Map and Site Map.