1/4Downstream from Safe Harbor Dam, sunset reveals details in roughly 150 petroglyphs on Little Indian Rock. The site represents the largest concentration of petroglyphs in the northeastern United States (Photos by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
Will Parsons is himself a valuable Chesapeake resource. The piece on petroglyphs was a revelation to me despite decades working on the Bay, There are OTHER petroglyphs near Little Cove Point on the middle Chesapeake, carved in limonite mineral stone by the water, but they all seem to be from the 1940s and perhaps connected originally to military training before the Normandy and Pacific Island invasions of WW-II.
Does anyone do tours of the petroglyph?
Little is known about their meanings but going to one of Nevins lectures is enlightening as he has done extensive research. The dam people that built the dam dams in the 1930’s did document as many of the petroglyphs as they could find but their speculation in comparing them to Chinese writing characters is comical. It’s a tragedy that that the dam building ruined this important site but any exact interpretation of the site was lost before white settlement. Only Nevins research has credible speculation about the importance of this place in the river.
Wait! So what do they mean?
And are they similar to those in GA and Yucatán?
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Will Parsons is himself a valuable Chesapeake resource. The piece on petroglyphs was a revelation to me despite decades working on the Bay, There are OTHER petroglyphs near Little Cove Point on the middle Chesapeake, carved in limonite mineral stone by the water, but they all seem to be from the 1940s and perhaps connected originally to military training before the Normandy and Pacific Island invasions of WW-II.
Does anyone do tours of the petroglyph?
Little is known about their meanings but going to one of Nevins lectures is enlightening as he has done extensive research. The dam people that built the dam dams in the 1930’s did document as many of the petroglyphs as they could find but their speculation in comparing them to Chinese writing characters is comical. It’s a tragedy that that the dam building ruined this important site but any exact interpretation of the site was lost before white settlement. Only Nevins research has credible speculation about the importance of this place in the river.
Wait! So what do they mean?
And are they similar to those in GA and Yucatán?
Thank you!
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