LA Number:
LA 148560
Site Name:
Ruby Canyon
Location:
For thousands of years ancestral peoples painted their stories in nature, sometimes using the same canvas again and again. Ruby’s Canyon rock shelters are home to a variety of pictographs illustrating geometric designs, zig-zag patterns, animal figures, and large circles. These panels were painted in layers by two groups of people generations apart. Early archaic artists first painted here, followed by their descendants in the formative period.