Rocks Telling Stories: Rock Art in New Mexico’s Guadalupe Mountains/Carlsbad Region

Both prehistoric cultures and historic Native American tribes (most likely Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa) created the rock art at the 21 sites studied during the project. However, it is noted here that the term “deep history” is gaining traction as a way of avoiding the artificial separation of history and “pre” history, particularly when it comes to rick art that often represents a symbolic and narrative account of past beliefs and experiences, or what Carolyn Boyd (The White Shaman Mural, 2016) has called the earliest “book” in North America.