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Ancient Peoples, Dwellings, Petroglyphs, Rock Art & Fossils 2021.4.12

The images in this Gallery are collated alphabetically first by a State code like AZ, then in some cases by a location code like PFNP (Petrified Forest National Park) and then the Date of capture and caption. All images in this Gallery are protected bu US Copyright laws. No images may be copied or downloaded without formal written permission from Tom Jesiolowski/Northland Arts Nature Images.
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AZ-Fossil,track1-Technically tracks are trace fossils. Advertised as a Tyrannosaurus Rex track. 2019.6.17#017. The Moenkopi Sandstone where these tracks are found are in a 193 million to 210 million years old formation. Over a 100 million years before T-rex was on the earth. This site and all of these tracks at this site are sensational!. They are all from carnivorous dinosaurs, but none could possibly be T-rex though. A possibility might be Dilophosaurus wetherilli, a large dinosaur like the one in Jurrasic Park, but from the early Jurassic, not the late Jurassic peroid. Moenkopi Sandstone formation, near Tuba City, Arizona.
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AZ-Fossil,track1-Technically tracks are trace fossils. Advertised as a Tyrannosaurus Rex track. 2019.6.17#017. The Moenkopi Sandstone where these tracks are found are in a 193 million to 210 million years old formation. Over a 100 million years before T-rex was on the earth. This site and all of these tracks at this site are sensational!. They are all from carnivorous dinosaurs, but none could possibly be T-rex though. A possibility might be Dilophosaurus wetherilli, a large dinosaur like the one in Jurrasic Park, but from the early Jurassic, not the late Jurassic peroid. Moenkopi Sandstone formation, near Tuba City, Arizona.

  • 1-AZ-2017.12.14#035-A typical Metate found through out the Southwest US. Used by early people from a little over 3000 years ago to the present day. Boyce Thompson Aboretum, Arizona.
  • 2-AZ-2017.12.14#037-Mortar. Used throughout the same time as the previous metate. Boyce Thompson Aboretum, Arizona.
  • 3-AZ-2019.11.13#4387.2. Metate. This is the more common type and form found throughout the southwest. They are almost always formed from a porous basalt like rock to aid in the grinding of corn and grain. This one was dug up and now viewable in one of the rooms of the Tuzigoot Ruins Nat. Monument near Cottonwood Arizona.
  • 4-AZ-2019.11.13#4389.3. Metate. Another Metate with higher side walls, maybe had been used much longer then the one in the previous image. Found and left for viewing in one of the rooms of the Tuzigoot Ruins Nat. Monument. Near Cottonwood Arizona.
  • 5-NM-2019.11.11#4200.3. Metate's. Three large slab types propped against a wall and two laying on the ground with Mano rocks. These are in the Gran Quivira Ruins, part of the Salinas Pueblo Missions Nat. Monuments near Mountainair New Mexico.
  • AK-2008.7.2#038.2. Eskimo exhibit in The Museum of the North. Fairbanks Alaska.
  • AK-2020.11.25#0108.3. My Sister Peggy is dwarfed by a Tlingit Totem Pole carved from a giant Western Red Cedar. Totem Park, Sitka Alaska.
  • AK-Fossil, "Blue Babe"a. Bison priscus, the prehistoric Steppe Bison that was discovered mummified north of Fairbanks Alaska. It was found by placer miners Walter and Ruth Roman in 1979. Paleontologist Dale Guthrie supervised the recovery and reconstruction for the University of Alaska Museum of the North. It was killed 36,000 years ago by a prehistoric American Lion. It's blue color for which it was named was the result of the white phosphate mineral coating of vivianite having a reaction with iron in the soil when exposed to the air. 2008.7.1#229.2. Museum of the North Fairbanks Alaska.
  • AK-Fossil, "Blue Babe"b. A frontal view of the previous image. 2008.7.1#230.2. Museum of the North Fairbanks Alaska.
  • AZ-ASDM2018.4.20#298- Pictographs. Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.
  • AZ-Canyon De Chelly #1
  • AZ-CDC-Canyon Dechelly map
  • AZ-CDC2017.10.11#1020,1x2-Cliff Dwellings. Canyon DeChelly Nat. Monument Arizona. 1500 B.C. to 1350 A.D.Considered one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in North America.
  • AZ-CDC2017.10.11#1020-Cliff Dwellings. Canyon DeChelly Nat. Monument Arizona.
  • AZ-CDC2017.10.11#1023,2-Cliff Dwellings. Canyon DeChelly Nat. Monument Arizona. 1500 B.C. to 1350 A.D.
  • AZ-CDC2017.10.11#1023,3-Cliff Dwellings. Canyon DeChelly Nat. Monument Arizona. 1500 B.C. to 1350 A.D.
  • AZ-CDC2017.10.11#1030,2-Cliff Dwellings. Canyon DeChelly Nat. Monument Arizona. 1500 B.C. to 1350 A.D.
  • AZ-CDC2017.10.11#1030,3-Cliff Dwellings. Canyon DeChelly Nat. Monument Arizona. 1500 B.C. to 1350 A.D.
  • AZ-Fossil,track1-Technically tracks are trace fossils. Advertised as a Tyrannosaurus Rex track. 2019.6.17#017. The Moenkopi Sandstone where these tracks are found are in a 193 million to 210 million years old formation. Over a 100 million years before T-rex was on the earth. This site and all of these tracks at this site are sensational!. They are all from carnivorous dinosaurs, but none could possibly be T-rex though. A possibility might be Dilophosaurus wetherilli, a large dinosaur like the one in Jurrasic Park, but from the early Jurassic, not the late Jurassic peroid. Moenkopi Sandstone formation, near Tuba City, Arizona.
  • AZ-Fossil,track2-Dinosaur tracks 2019.6.17#014. All the tracks at this site are from carnivores. The Moenkopi formation is from the early Triassic, 193 to 210 million years ago. Possible species are Eubrontes, Grallator, Coelophysis kayentakatae, or Dilophosaurus wetherilli. Moenkopi Dinosaur track site, near Tuba City Arizona.
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