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Please follow this link  http://www.youtube.com/user/lonestartravelers  to view a short video on the petroglyphs we discovered while hiking in Petrified Forest National Park.  What makes this petroglyph panel unique is that it is rarely seen by the public.  It is at an undisclosed archaeological site in the northern wilderness area of the Painted Desert.  According to park policy they will not tell you where the archaeological sites are however you are welcome to explore on your own and if you are lucky you may find one of these many sites.  

Please visit our website  lonestartravelers.com  to view two short videos filmed in Petrified Forest National Park.

There are many solstice markers in Petrified Forest National Park that scientists from all over the world gather at on the first day of summer to study and document.  One is located at Puerco Pueblo, site of the prehistoric Puebloan ruins.  A petroglyph in the form of a spiral, easily viewed from an overlook, is pecked into the rock.  Amidst several petroglyphs that have been chiseled here this one alone interacts with the sun.  On the day of the summer solstice a beam of sunlight makes it’s way through a chasm in the rock directly to the center of the symbol.  Researchers believe this was used by the ancient ones as a solar calendar.