Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A picture carved in a rock or other hard surface: sometimes synonymous with petroglyph.

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  • Close by the Beaver Creek campground is the V Bar V pictoglyph site, a sheer wall of soft Supai sandstone adorned with about 1,100 haunting images of sheep, lizards, hunters, families, geometric designs and figures.

    Payson Roundup stories 2009

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