Monday, November 3, 2014

The Red Ghosts of Sego Canyon


Yesterday I drove about 40 miles north of Moab to see the rock art at remote Sego Canyon. It was fantastic! The art here is pictographs rather than petroglyphs - that is, painted rather than carved.

Experts think these paintings are 2,000 to 4,000 years old.

The best exterior house paint available today lasts what? Fifteen years? So how did these ancient people formulate a paint that has survived exposure to sun and rain for four millennia?





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