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Black Lava Butte Petroglyphs
Black Lava Butte is one of a pair of mesas rising from the desert north of Pioneertown within the Sand to Snow National Monument, its dark basalt cap slowly eroding at the edges. Lava-covered mesas are rare in the Mojave, and these two stand as remnants of volcanic flows
Hondo Wash Pictographs
The Hondo Wash pictographs sit where granite boulders narrow the canyon to a passage. Rock art on both sides of the wash, exactly the kind of spot where people would pause as they moved through.
The site features both petroglyphs and painted images in red and black. What's
Parson's Ranch Petroglyphs
A friend showed me these modern petroglyphs over a decade ago. He didn't know what to make of them and neither do I. They are clearly modern but why are they here? What do they mean? Why did someone bother to carve them?
The symbols are carved into