Story Told on Lava Rocks

La Cieneguilla Petroglyphs is home to one of the largest collections of Native American rock art known as petroglyphs. Located in Northern New Mexico, the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management oversee the site. More than four thousand, four hundred petroglyphs exist in an area that is a little under a mile in area. Bird figures account for a third of the petroglyphs and there are also maze (corn), snake and humanoid figures. Some of the panels are thought to go back to the Archaic Period (eight thousand to two thousand BCE). There are some modern petroglyphs as well, but most of the images are from the Puebloan People and date to between the thirteenth and seventeenth century.