Coso rock art is found throughout the forested uplands of the Coso Range, as well as the broad brush-covered plateau to the south. Bakersfield.

CONCLUSION Little Petroglyph Canyon is a wonderful experience, both in terms of the archaeology and the rock art. Coso Rock Art District is a rock art site containing over 100,000 Petroglyphs by Paleo-Indians and/or Native Americans. 2003 Dating “Classic” Coso Style Sheep Petroglyphs in the Coso Range and El Paso Mountains: Implications for Regional Prehistory. Dating “Classic” Coso Style Sheep Petroglyphs in the Coso Range and El Paso Mountains 67-78.

The Coso Mountain petroglyphs are the last remnant of a society that started thousands of years ago and lived almost to our present time.
Discover Coso Rock Art District in Inyo County, California: A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings. 2.

Pictographs of the Coso Region, Robert A. Schiffman, David S. Whitley, Alan P. Garfinkel, and Stephen B. Andrews, editors, pp. Petroglyphs, described by experts as shamans, masks or human-like figures, adorn rocks at Coso Rock Art National Historic Landmark on a U.S. Navy base in the western Mojave Desert. A more complete discussion of the Coso petroglyphs, with illustrations, may be found in Land, People, and Rock Art of the Coso Region, for sale in the Museum store. Yet another possibility is that the Coso corner-notched point petroglyphs were representations of hafted Humboldt or Desert Series (Cottonwood or Desert Side-notched) points.

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Examination of hafted examples of Humboldt style points from Hidden Cave (Pendleton 1985) closely resemble the Coso Range projectile point petroglyphs. Although these areas differ in many ways, they both have large outcrops of basalt that form extensive scarps or rimrocks on which the rock art is typically found.

In 2001, they were incorporated into this larger National Historic Landmark District. The district is located near the towns of China Lake and Ridgecrest, California. Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.


At China Lake Naval Weapons Ctr Ridgecrest , CA 93555 The Coso Range petroglyphs are America's answer to Notre Dame, Stonehenge, the Eiffel Tower and any other historical sites mentioned by Europe-centric amateur historians who scoff at our short history as a country here in the USA.