Destination Void....
Jul 17, 2018 10:12:11 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
....and the stories of how they got there. Five historic inscriptions near home.
Jul 18, 2018 09:21:52 #
Jul 18, 2018 12:55:37 #
Jul 18, 2018 13:40:27 #
Nice, Cany. I know exactly where that first one is. So the question, in my mind, is which ones qualify as graffiti?
Jul 18, 2018 15:14:55 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
Retired CPO wrote:
Nice, Cany. I know exactly where that first one is. So the question, in my mind, is which ones qualify as graffiti?
Technically, only the last. The Antiquities Act specifies that anything more than 50 years old can be considered 'historic.' I first came across the 'Destination Void' inscription some time in the early '90's, and have revisited it a few times since while monitoring several significant archaeological sites relatively closeby. As a guess, it was probably inscribed some time in the '70's or '80's, and even if it qualified time-wise, its 'subject matter' wouldn't be considered anything but graffiti. In writing up the rock art portion of Canyonland's study of the Rock Art and Ruins of the River Corridors, I framed the piece with discussions of Denis Julien's inscriptions and movement through the Green and Colorado river corridors, and how they related to, and in effect echoed, the movements and 'inscriptions' of much earlier peoples who traveled through and utilized this land. Lots of people have seen his inscription at the mouth of Hell Roaring Canyon, but few have seen the one shown here.
Jul 18, 2018 15:52:59 #
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