Archaic rock art at Sego Canyon

I was going to post a phot of the Colorado National Monument, a wonderful place filled with hoodoos and red rock canyons and the like, but later we discovered this rock art near the Utah-Colorado border.

Some of the most spectacular examples of rock art in the Southwest are attributed to Archaic people, nomads who hunted large and small game animals, and collected and processed wild plants. They did not build permanent habitation structures but lived in caves and in small brush shelters built in the open. They occupied this area from approximately 8,000 years ago until the introduction of corn agriculture about 2,000 years ago.

This rock art, the Barrier Canyon Style, usually consists of larger than life size anthropomorphic (manlike) forms. The identifying characteristics of these figures is hollowed eyes or missing eyes, the frequent absence of arms and legs, and the presence of vertical body markings. This panel is characterized by at least 19 painted anthropomorphous with bug-eyes, antennae, earrings, snakes in hand, and leg-less torsos. The "ghost-like" images may represent shamanistic art associated with ritual activities of the Archaic people.

- from a plaque near the rock art