Ancient Puebloan Petroglyphs

Petroglyph National Monument, located in Albuquerque, NM, protects a variety of cultural and natural resources including volcanoes, archeological sites and an estimated 24,000 carved images. Many of the images are recognizable as animals, people, brands and crosses; others are more complex. These images are inseparable from the cultural landscape, the spirits of the people who created and who appreciate them.

[S.J.Strongblood]

The wheel glyph, at the end of this video, is a calendar, because it has 30 spokes. It keeps tracks of the month based on a 30-day rough month. That's very basic understanding of the month system. There is a cross in the middle, which indicates the two equinoxes and the two solstices. It's inside a sphere, which indicates the year cycle. On the inner year circle, you could place a marker to know what month it is. Solstice, two months, Equinox, two months, Solstice, two month, Equinox, two months. You place a marker on each day, on the outer rim of the wheel, at the end of a spoke, to know which day of the month it is. When you complete a 30 day cycle, you move the year marker one quarter of a position, forward, from the last position it was in. This is a calendar, for the year, the seasons, the months, and the days.

[ellenedwards]

Petroglyph national monument in Albuquerque very nice : visitor center is new, helpful, the trail nice and neat, we enjoyed the hike in finding and seeing many etching images by ancient Pueblo natives, beautiful and sacred place . Appreciate this monument so we can learn more about our native Americans culture

[mikeday]

I was reading an interesting petrogliff, and it appeared to me to be saying "send us raincoats and donuts". It seems the ancient ones were more advanced than previously believed. 🍩 🍩

[deansing]

rex you do interesting interviews and i think you need to interview brother panic ...he will blow your mind and he talks about spirituality from a place of knowing ..he doesnt think something he knows what it is and if you want to know talk to him or watch his channel..

[Alan]

Perhaps the images are more than what we think of as "art." The geometric shapes are found in rock are world-wide, and plasma physicists say the are the shapes one would see in the atmosphere during a massive CME event - one that might create major upheaval. Are the ancients just leaving historical records of the solar events that destroyed their civilizations?

[roberthawthorne]

They represent electrified plasma phenomenon in the sky from a solar flare. Compare the Three Legged Crow stone motif to the First Fire Cherokee creation story.

[birmingham]

What a shame visitors are no longer allowed to ride bicycles across the vast expanse.NPS seems interested only in accommodating the hordes of immigrants from California, giving them 96 miles of trail to walk their dogs.Under their new business model, they will probably start charging admission before long.What a disrace.

[janjohannessmith]

Because your observations are so superficial they miss the conveyanceof the significance of these relics that being that the ancients met with their creators regularly and ritualistic ceremony. That we have never experienced including the narrator

[davidleepaynter]

They are acient graffiti. When you have no other thing to do to pass time, one most found something to do.