On our little drive exploring more of the back roads, and after A LOT of searching, we found Map Rock. It's crazy, because we thought it would be hidden, but it was right off of the road. Nate was a little put out that they haven't taken much care to preserve the petroglyphs.
| Noun | 1. | petroglyph - a carving or line drawing on rock (especially one made by prehistoric people)
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They are being weathered away :(
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You can't even read this sign - a little annoying. My husband was almost moved to write a letter to somebody, to have it restored.
“The principal motif seems to be a mapping of the Snake River Valley. The most conspicuous line being the course of the Snake River, and is readily recognizable and quite accurate, compared to the Land Office and other maps…One branch rises from a spring, and the other flow from a large lake, the Henry Lake of our maps… At the third turn of the stream [Snake River] is a branch from the east…which is probably intended for the Black Foot River… The locations of the various groups of circles to the south of the river correspond quite closely to the locations of the ranges of hills which do lie to the south of Snake River.” ~ E.T. Perkins Jr. to J.W. Powell, 14 January 1897“It is in all probability a map of an entire river basin covering almost 32,000 square miles.” ~ Woodward and Lewis
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