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Unusual
Petroglyphs:
Seats
Ovals
Grooves
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The picture below shows part
of a large basalt boulder near the boulder previously described.

A finely worked oval form can
be seen on the upper left side of the boulder and parallel vertical
lines (or "stripes") to the right. These lines, which
are generally 3-4 cm wide and less than 1 cm deep, are found on
stones scattered over the survey area as well as on this site. At
first we dismissed them as "natural" formations or weathering
of the rock. The number of representations here in association with
other more conventional pecked petroglyphs made us rethink this,
and we started recording all the isolated examples of these "stripes."
A cm scale is
included to give an indication of size of the oval in the photograph
below.
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