V-Bar-V Ranch - Petroglyphs and a Figure
Yesterday Peter and I took a day trip to V-Bar-V Ranch near Sedona AZ. We love to visit ruins and see petroglyphs while we look for real birds and interesting textures of nature. In 1994, the U.S. Forest Service acquired the V-Bar-V Ranch to protect the ancient art panels found here. The property was first homesteaded at the turn of the century (1900’s) by the Taylor family. Several families ran the property as a working cattle ranch after that. We checked in with the ranger and took the short walk to the very large configuration of rocks on the sandstone bluff. It was covered with petroglyphs- 1032 have been identified so far. Most were pecked, ground or scratched into the rock between 1150 and 1400 A.D. (over 800 years ago). The Sinagua people who created these images seemed to like pairs – 2 birds, lizards and humans with different sets of legs- and we found several of these pairs. By watching the movement of light across the rock ...