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Thompson Wash Rock Art District
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Thompson Wash Rock Art District in Grand County, Utah, north of Thompson Springs, is a historic archaeological site known for preserving rock art from three cultural traditions in one place. Its panels span a vast period, from Barrier Canyon Style images dating to about 2000 B.C., through Fremont imagery, to Ute figures from roughly the 14th to 17th centuries. The art includes shield-bearing people, horses, buffalo, hunters, bighorn sheep, geometric designs, and striking humanoid forms with large eyes and skull-like heads. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 1, 1980, it is significant for both its antiquity and its long visual record of successive cultures.
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