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Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons are situated on property of the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station. The two canyons are a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark. In 2001, they were incorporated into a larger National Historic Landmark District, called the Coso Rock Art District. [2]
22 Σεπ 2023 · Petroglyphs The Coso Range Canyons contain the highest concentration of rock art in the Northern Hemisphere. More than 6,000 images have been pecked, engraved, or abraded into the desert varnish...
Coso Rock Art District is a rock art site containing over 100,000 Petroglyphs by Paleo-Indians and/or Native Americans. [1] . 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.
11 Απρ 2018 · The greatest (meaning both the largest and the best preserved) concentration of Native American rock art in the country is only about a hundred miles north of Los Angeles. It's in China Lake Naval Base. And that’s where things get interesting.
The largest concentration of petroglyphs are located within the Coso Petroglyph National Historic Park on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, or NAWS. The Navy allows the public to visit those petroglyphs that are located in Little Petroglyph Canyon (also known as Renegade Canyon) on a limited basis.
To visit Little Petroglyph Canyon, you need to go through the Maturango Museum which is located in Ridgecrest, California. To arrange a guided tour of the Coso Rock Art District located on China Lake Naval Weapons Station, you will need to call the museum to secure a reservation, pay a small fee and go through a written security questionnaire.
Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons are situated on property of the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station. The two canyons are a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark. In 2001, they were incorporated into a larger National Historic Landmark District, called the Coso Rock Art District.
