History
Three Rivers Petroglyph Site in southern New Mexico preserves one of the state’s largest concentrations of rock art on rocky slopes where Indian Creek, Golondrina Creek, and Three Rivers meet. More than 21,000 petroglyphs have been recorded there, generally attributed to the Jornada Mogollon people and thought to date from about 1000 to 1400 AD. A public trail about a mile long makes this large petroglyph field unusually accessible. The site was systematically documented during a six-year project by the Archaeological Society of New Mexico’s Rock Art Recording Field Schools, and the Bureau of Land Management keeps the records in Las Cruces while continuing to protect and maintain the site.
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