Thursday, November 6, 2014
Courthouse Wash
This morning I made the short but tricky scramble to see the pictographs at Courthouse Wash, just on the edge of Moab. I've been here before, and it always depresses me. In 1980, some fool climbed up here with a brush and a can of cleanser, and scrubbed the art right off the wall. It was really magnificent before that. Now, only this little panel remains. It is in the top right corner, and it only survived because he couldn't reach it.
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It must have been incredible before the damage was done. What tribes are attributed to these pictographs and petroglyphs?
ReplyDeleteLisa, these are done in the archaic style, and they may be 2,000 to 4,000 years old. They were done long before modern day tribes like the Utes and Navajos came to this region.
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