Crystal River Rock Art

Crystal River Archaeological State Park, stele with face

Three large upright boulders with petroglyphs. These carved images resemble humans. Possible time of creation: 100 BC. Nearby are burial mounds, platforms.

Page-Ladson prehistory site

Rich find of prehistoric fossils of animals and artifacts left by people 12,500 – 10,500 BC. Here were found bones of animals living at the time when people were already here – elephants, mastodons, mammoths, horses, ground sloths. Chop marks on bones show that people hunted mastodons and other animals.

Little Salt Spring

Little Salt Spring

Water filled, 61 m deep sinkhole. At the depth of 3 m, the water becomes anoxic. Thanks to this in the sinkhole – spring have been preserved numerous examples of prehistoric fauna and remnants of Palaeo-Indians: hundreds of burials from 4,800 – 3,200 BC.

White Tank Mountain petroglyphs

White Tank Mountain petroglyphs

Diverse petroglyphs etched in boulders, most likely by Hohokams. It is possible that one petroglyph depicts a supernova that happened in 1006 AD.

V-bar-V Heritage site

V-bar-V petroglyphs, Arizona

Large petroglyph site with 1,032 petroglyphs. These drawings were made in 1050 – 1400 AD in a specific style that is now called a Beaver Creek Rock Art Style.

Lyman Lake Petroglyphs

Petroglyph sites with very diverse cliff drawings from different periods – from 6000 BC to 1400 AD. Some specialists consider that part of the drawings is associated with shamanism.

Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site

Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site

In this place, people of Clovis culture killed mammoths around 9,000 BC. There have been found bones of other extinct animals as well.

Baboquivari Cave

Sacred cave of Tohono O’Odham people, center of their cosmology. According to their beliefs here lives I’itoi – protector of the people. Nearby are petroglyphs.

Tonto Upper Cliff Dwelling

Tonto Upper Cliff Dwelling

The largest ancient cliff dwelling in Tonto National Monument. An ancient structure with some 40 rooms in a natural alcove. It was developed and inhabited by Salado culture around 1300 – 1350 AD.