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EPISODE · Dec 17, 2025 · 4 MIN

In the Pecos Canyonlands, Pictograph Dating Reveals 4,000 Years of Cultural Continuity

from Nature Notes · host Andrew Stuart

At the threshold of Far West Texas, the Lower Pecos Canyonlands contain some of North America’s most remarkable rock art. Here, where the Pecos and Devils rivers join the Rio Grande, on cave walls, prehistoric hunter-gatherers painted more than 350 rock-art panels of a distinctive style.

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