Pueblo carving of an altar with sky & rain-related symbols including cloud terraces & four-pointed star, Petroglyph National Park, Albuquerque, USA.

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Pueblo carving of an altar with sky and rain related symbols including cloud terraces & four-pointed star on a basalt boulder at Boca Negra Canyon, Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Thousands of Rio Grande Style images were carved on the boulders and cliff faces of the West Mesa volcanic escarpment and rock slopes in the period c AD1100 to c AD1600.

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Size: 3788px × 2668px
Location: Petroglyph National Monument, Boca Negra Canyon, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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