After Ken's long drive into New Mexico, we explored Albuquerque on Saturday; our first stop was locating petroglyphs along the Rinconada Canyon Trail. The round trip distance for the trail was only 2.5 miles. I took a lot of petroglyph photographs and picked out the best to show family and friends; ENJOY!
Information from the visitor's center: Most of the petroglyphs were made by pecking. Pecking: striking the basalt boulder directly with a hammerstone or using two stones (hammer and chisel method). Archaeologists believe Ancestral Puebloans made most of the 1200 petroglyphs in Rinconada Canyon four to seven hundred years ago.
Information from the visitor's center: Most of the petroglyphs were made by pecking. Pecking: striking the basalt boulder directly with a hammerstone or using two stones (hammer and chisel method). Archaeologists believe Ancestral Puebloans made most of the 1200 petroglyphs in Rinconada Canyon four to seven hundred years ago.
At the visitor center.
The trail followed the base of the north side of the canyon.
The hillside is covered in basalt boulders.
Hmmmm, this one is really strange...
Lizard!
Yet another lizard! They were too fast for me to catch.
Sorry Harley, no lizard friend for you. :(
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