CSPAN3 Petroglyph National Monument August 25, 2016
Area of black assault boulders on which weve got 24,000 petroglyphs. The story of the National Monument isnt just about a single petroglyph or concentrations. It also includes the volcanic cones and the mesa top that spreads out towards albuquerque. The pueblo people would come up to the mesa top. We have evidence of them carrying water and farming. Sometimes they would send their children up here to keep the rabbits away from their crops. We see many ancient trails up here and this becomes part of a larger spiritual landscape thats important to most pueblo people. Were here at Boca Negra Cany...