Oregon's Ancient Petroglyphs

A look at ancient Petroglyphs and rock art around Oregon. What do these depict? Some appear to be Orion. Do some depict a Great Flood? No clear answer.

Pyramid Lake & Winnemucca's 11,000+ Year Old Petroglyphs

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[cfapps]

A few recent ancient America videos.
Pyramid Lake & Winnemucca's 11, 000+ Year Old Petroglyphs
Chimney Rock N.M., CO. ~ Alignment Discovery & From Above
California ~ The Mystery Of Sky Rock

[keepmoving]

Oregonians thank you! Every hike I go looking for this type of stuff. Please keep it coming!

[Stand.Your.Ground.]

Wait wait wait what!???? I’m from Bend Oregon born and raised. Most of my family are from that entire area for generations. I had no idea we had these in that location! And the fact they are older than younger dryas blows my So the obsidian flakes we find everywhere in that area are possibly descendants of the people who carved these pictographs. Maybe maybe not but the fact we have humans here in cascades carving is so cool I am 100% planning a trip there this spring!

[pamelaanderson]

There was a presentation by a Zuni Elder that gave an explanation for the upside down man and other ancient rock art drawings from around the southwest. His name is Clifford Mahooty if I remember correctly, retired Engineer and lived in Arizona.

[Rockbadger]

You might not know it, but you have the wrong "LONG LAKE" at the start of your video. The lake you are looking for is in Lake County, South of Hart Mountain. I've been there many times, also Greaser Basin. Camped right next to that bowman glyph.

[Leo-nine]

My cross-country road trip is postponed due to covid.

I must say I am grateful for the delay because now I can watch your West Coast petroglyph series and plan my trip with it!
I need to see the ancient American drawings.
You could say I'm drawn to them!
:D

[TheDeadlyDan]

I live just on the western edge of the WIllamette Valley in Oregon, though I've driven to most of the state numerous times. I grew up here. There are a considerable number of other petroglyphs around, such as those in the Painted Hills area near John Day. None seem to pre-date the Younger Dryas however, although it's true any evidence may have simply been washed to sea.


I'm not entirely sure people were living this far inland prior to the Younger Dryas. We've always lived on coasts at river mouths, or on islands free of the mega-fauna of the times - especially the predatory variety. Hunting packs of either smiladon or dire wolf would tend to discourage many ventures into the interior save for resources like obsidian. We've used boats and watercraft for tens of thousands of years, and we have documentation of this. The ocean is both a highway and a food store, and we'd have made any settlements along it's shores. The hunting would have been far better along the tundra for grazers as well, instead of in the subalpine forests covering most of the Coast Range or montane forests up and over the Cascades. I do think we've had a substantial population here for those same tens of thousands of years, but I don't think they'd have lived inland.

[terrialdrich]

I'm from Eastern Oregon. Was so excited to find your channel, I scrolled thru the vids until I found the one for Oregon. I live in lagrande, and when I go on hikes or drives I wish so much that someone would come here and excavate. In my minds eye, I see so much untouched history here. Do you have anything else on Oregon, specifically in my region?

[AhJodie]

I like the things you point out, very nice video, and very amazing art work! Thank you!

[frankvehafric]

The Horsethief Lake art was salvaged by the corps of engineers and set up there when the Columbia was flooded by dams. Uncounted thousands of other petroglyphs were lost forever when the dam was built. "She Who Watches" which is the large figure on the red rock at the beginning of the Horsethief lake segment, is, I think, in the original location.

[jackyadam]

That was cool, your videos are always great to watch, Thankyou so much x

[jarmyvicious]

Great site I had missed, incredible! Thank You!
Edit: Great SITES

[Fortwuny]

What if the glyphs at 8:55 represent a map of the canyon floor where the floods rushed through? It may explain the mounds pointed out at 9:30 in this video.

[watertiteman]

The image with the mountains and perhaps water flowing between is very similar to one i found in southern new mexico. Difference being that the one i came across is painted onto a rock in a protected overhang. It is also imposed over what seems to be an older pecked glyph of a similar image. Very strange.

[bonnieunderwood]

you may find the work of Dr. Anthony Peratt regarding his work in his plasma lab interesting. Check out his work related to petroglyphs found around the globe. He recognized the petroglyphs as plasma instabilities he saw in his lab at Los Alamos.

[calebstacey]

I really enjoyed this video thank you!!

[austinbreske]

Can anyone tell me if Chuck is still around? He hasn’t uploaded in a year. I absolutely love his work. Has he retired?

[csrouse]

Horseshoe lake is on the Columbia River. The rock art there was moved from the river because a nearby damn was going to submerge it.

[helenkentwell]

Info from Rex Bear, Leak Project, some Petroglyphs may be drawings of plasma light formations in sky which are believed, possibly to be produced in certain planetary cycles such as the Grand Solar Minimum which we have entered into now. Approx 400 yr cataclysmic earth and weather events corresponding with the suns changing magnetics. Etc. worth looking up.

[goforlaunch]

Your work is most compelling.
I hope they stop a rubbin' n touch n' those rocks.
If real, the mountain/water petroglyph is astounding...and profound.