pictograph

Example Sentences

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Indigenous peoples have lived along the river and its tributaries for thousands of years, adorning rocks on canyon walls with petroglyphs and pictographs.

From Los Angeles Times

See pictographs and petroglyphs created by the Barrier Canyon people at this 130-foot-long panel in Buckhorn Wash in the northern section of the Swell.

From Washington Post

Our guides promise early on that we will see petroglyphs, pictographs and a massive natural dome that inspires as much awe as the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

From Washington Post

The newly described figures share characteristics with other rock art formations in the southeast, like cliff drawings at Alabama’s Painted Bluff, and also in the Southwest, like the humanlike pictographs in Canyonlands National Park.

From Science Magazine

The whole point, he added, is to preserve the historic integrity of the signatures, pictographs and petroglyphs on the mound while ensuring visitors are safe.

From Washington Times