Petroglyphs in Sandstone

33GU218 in Guernsey County, Ohio

 

Approx. 60 cm (24") below unglaciated and undisturbed terrain surface.

 
 Bird-Human Petroglyph - 33GU218 (Day's Knob Archaeological Site) 

Bird-human petroglyph with bird emerging downward from mouth.

Note the classic one-eye-open / one-eye-almost-shut motif. 

Below:  Close-up of emerging bird.
Bird Petroglyph - 33GU218 (Day's Knob Archaeological Site)
Note the sharp V-profile grooves, professionally identified as having been made with a sharp-edged object (flint?) drawn forcefully across the surface of the rock.  (Not worm fossils as some archaeologists have insisted.)

Spider Petroglyph - 33GU218 (Day's Knob Archaeological Site)

Mastodon Petroglyph - 33GU218 (Day's Knob Archaeological Site)

Spider

   Mastodon head, right profile
 

Petroglyphs In Situ - 33GU218
The petroglyphs in situ, about 60 cm (24") below the current terrain surface in a truck track along the access path up the hill, after years of grading, erosion, and vegetation regrowth.  It is anticipated that additional petroglyphs might appear when more of this fine-grained sandstone stratum is uncovered.

Dr. Arsen Faradzhev photographing petroglyphs at 33GU218
April 2005, Dr. Arsen Faradzhev (Moscow State University) photographing the petroglyphs during a site visit along with Dr. James B. Harrod.
 

Standing Deer Petroglyph at 33GU218
This small petroglyph, also on fine-grained sandstone but of slightly different color and consistency, eroded from a bank about 100m downhill from those shown above.  It appears to depict the upper part of an upright-standing deer.  The rock itself stands upright on a flattened base. 

 

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