Ancient Artwork: Images Of “Storied Rock” By NatGeo’s Stephen Alvarez

The Tolar Petroglyph site in Wyoming.(Stephen Alvarez)In this month’s issue of “National Geographic,” you’ll find “Storied Rock”: images of ancient artwork, above and below ground - including petroglyphs and pictographs - etchings and paintings created by Indigenous people centuries, even millennia, ago in what is now the United States from Northeast Alabama to Washington State.Stephen Alvarez is a photographer from Sewanee, Tennessee - west of Chattanooga - who lives and works in our area.The Wedding Rocks Petroglyph Site at Olympic National Park in Washington State.(Stephen Alvarez)He’s a National Geographic Explorer who has been a photographer for the magazine since 1995 - and he captured the images of “Storied Rock” for this month’s issue.Stephen Alvarez(Stephen Alvarez Photography)