Oldest Yet Rock Art in North America

The oldest petroglyphs in North America found yet are near Pyramid Lake, Nevada and are just stunning!! Pyramid Lake is a remnant & deepest part on ancient Lake Lahontan which covered most of northwestern Nevada at the end of the last ice age. Petroglyphs are dating between 10,500 & 14,800 years ago.

Link: en.wikipedia.org...(Nevada)

Link: www.livescience.com...

More Links:
abcnews.go.com...

www.nevadaweb.com...

I wonder if anything can be found underwater there???
Another link for Lake Lahontan: en.wikipedia.org...

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Stunning petroglyphs!

I can imagine what lies in that waters...
S&f.

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Some of the largest trout ever are in that lake.

Originally posted by punkinworks10
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Some of the largest trout ever are in that lake.

Nice one!

I saw Pyramid Lake from a plane a few years ago and was like WHOA that is a crazy looking pyramid in a lake! LOL

Reminded me of the pyramids in Peru that were ancient but eroded.

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Very nice,

Sure would liked to have seen the area in those days, it's one of the most barren deserts now.
I hope the site is on the reservation, as it would be well protected, they take their sovereignty very seriously, and any non tribe memeber on their land without a permit will be arrested.

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On the subject of lake lohantan, I've got a paper detailing fish remains found in a midden at a pre Clovis site, the Witt site, near the intersection of CA hwy 41 and interstate 5 in Fresno county. There is evidence that the san Joaquin/ Sacramento river system was connected to the snake river via the feather river, that's that western mozt portion of lake lohantan. The researcher found a species of fish in the southern san Joaquin that is only found in one other place , the snake river.
The Witt site was occupied at the same time as these rock carvings were made.

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Yes fishing is great there. Link: www.pyramidlakefisheries.org...
Yes it is on Pyramid Lakes Paiute Tribes reservation land and is under tribal permission requirements according to this Link:www.foxnews.com...
Close Up

that's pretty cool. A few summers ago i went on a raft ride through a canyon in Arizona, i remember we stopped to look at images that were carved in stone, truly a cool experience

Here is a link to
the paper on the site.

www.scribd.com...

Adding to this ol thread.

This video is great at walking around this site.