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La Cieneguilla Petroglyphs

Petroglyph site near Santa Fe, New Mexico

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The La Cieneguilla Petroglyphs are a rock art site near Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is a mesa above the Sante Fe River containing thousands of petroglyphs. Followers of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro also pass this site.

Paleolithic
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Chalcolithic
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Iron Age
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Petroglyph creation

13th–17th centuries

1991 bird survey

1991

Alternate dating hypothesis

8000 to 2000 BC

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Petroglyphs
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United States

Coordinates

35.60° N, -106.12° E