Newspaper Rock, Utah.
Engravings on sandstone made over a long period, starting 2000 years ago. Includes markings made by the Ancestral Pueblo, as well as the later Fremont and Navajo. Exact purpose unknown.
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Ancestral Pueblo refers to both the ancient cultural tradition and the peoples once found in the Four Corners area of the American Southwest. It is one of three major cultural traditions defined by archaeologists in the four southwestern states (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah). The other two traditions are the Hohokam and Mogollon, neither of which extends into Colorado.
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Public News, Houston, August 17, 1982.
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"Ah, good," said the Patrician. "Now, I would just like to ask one or two questions, if I may?"
Goodmountain nodded.
"Firstly, is Mr. Cut-My-Own-Throat Dibbler involved in this enterprise in any significant managerial capacity?"
"What?" said William. He hadn't been expecting this.
"Shifty fellow, sells sausages--"
"Oh, him. No. Just the dwarfs."
"I see. And is this building built on a crack in space-time?"
"What?" said Gunilla.
The Patrician sighed. "When one has been the ruler of this city as long as I have," he said, "one gets to know with a sad certainty that whenever some well-meaning soul begins a novel enterprise they always, with some kind of uncanny foresight, site it at the point where it will do maximum harm to the fabric of reality." [...]
"What?" said Goodmountain.
"We haven't noticed any cracks," said William.
"Ah, but possibly on this very site a strange cult once engaged in eldritch rites, the very essence of which permeated the neighborhood, and which seeks only the rite, ahaha, circumstances to once again arise and walk around eating people?"
"What?" said Gunilla. He looked helplessly at William, who could only add:
"They made rocking horses here."
"Really? I've always thought there was something slightly sinister about rocking horses," said Lord Vetinari, but he looked subtly disappointed.
Terry Pratchett, The Truth*
*For the anon who requested the bit about cracks in space-time from this excellent conversation in The Truth, where Vetinari demonstrates the Ankh-Morpork approach to urban planning.
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Petroglyphs on Rock Faces at Newspaper Rock in Petrified Forest National Park by Mark Stevens
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From an overlook at Newspaper Rock to this one rock face with petroglyphs. The view is looking to the northeast. The rock face with marking is more or less center image, but I decided to pull back on the focal length to include more of the surrounding rocks and colorful plant vegetation. While a zoomed in view of the rock face had its own qualities, I liked how pulling back added to a more complete setting and appreciation of the history of this area. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 4 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
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