Barrier Canyon Shamanic Visions

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Barrier Canyon Shamanic Visions

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Kathleen Bishop

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Photograph - Photography

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Huge prehistoric Barrier Canyon-style anthropomorphic beings stare out at the world from a south-facing cliff in Horseshoe Canyon, Utah. This ancient Native American painted and pecked art depicting “shamanic” figures with 3 bighorn sheep running below them, is a vignette of a much larger panel of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic rock art that stretches nearly 330 feet across a sandstone cliff face.

There is much debate among academics about the age of these paintings and of the cultural traditions of their creators, as well as their relationship to other groups in the region. Pigments can be carbon dated but it’s difficult to get reliable dates from these paintings through radiocarbon analysis due to contamination of the pigments and natural weathering. Other dating methods employed suggest Archaic Period dates. Clay figurines, resembling Barrier Canyon Style figures recovered by archaeologists during excavations within the Horseshoe Canyon system have been dated from 6630 b.c.e. to about 4600 b.c.e.

Superimposition of both Fremont and Basketmaker Ancestral Puebloan rock art on top of Barrier Canyon pictographs indicates that Barrier Canyon paintings were produced earlier. Researchers have concluded that Barrier Canyon pictographs in the Great Gallery were created by different artists over a span of more than 4,000 years. It is amazing to think that several hundred generations of artists adhered to the same Barrier Canyon stylistic tradition!

This fine art photograph capturing supernatural Barrier Canyon style shamanic figures, in vertical format, is being offered in dimensions suitable to create 72' x 48" prints. ©Kathleen Bishop. All Rights Reserved. kathleen-bishop.pixels.com.

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December 16th, 2019

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