A petroglyph depicting a person at the Pu'u Loa site, the Volcanoes National Park, on Big Island Hawaii.

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The site at Pu'u Loa (Pu'uloa) in the Volcanoes National Park on Big Island, Hawaii, is the largest of its kind on the Hawaiian chain. over 23,000 carvings and petroglyphs have been recorded. They were made using stone tools on the native lava. some are easily recognizable to us, humans, canoes, but others are more abstract and had significance only to their creators.

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Size: 2848px × 4287px
Location: Pu'u Loa, Volcanoes national Park, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
Photo credit: © Brian Hartshorn / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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