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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Pictogram, Ixtlan del Rio, La Pintada, Petroglyph, El Vallecito, Boca de Potrerillos, Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, Cueva Ahumada, Indian Head Rock, Rock art of the Chumash people, Chiquihuitillos, Barnesville Petroglyph, Altavista petroglyph complex, Francis Farm Petroglyphs, Indian God Rock, Sugar Grove Petroglyphs, Jeffers Petroglyphs, Kupgal petroglyphs, Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons, Coso Rock Art District, Greaser Petroglyph Site, Water glyphs, James L. Swauger, Bangudae Petroglyphs, Tanumshede, Edakkal Caves, Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument, Petroglyph National Monument, Grapevine Canyon Petroglyphs, V-bar-V petroglyph site, Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, Painted Rocks, Rochester Rock Art Panel, Red Bird River Shelter Petroglyphs, Ring Mountain, Swastika Stone, Angono Petroglyphs, Lengo Petroglyphs, Petroglyph Beach State and Historic Site, Cumbe Mayo, Legend Rock, Crow Canyon Archeological District, Leo Petroglyph, Roche-a-Cri Petroglyphs, Pecked curvilinear nucleated, Corantijn Basin, Caicara del Orinoco, Arch Creek Petroglyphs, Meadow Lake Petroglyphs, Tim Springs Petroglyphs, Holy Spirit Grotto. Excerpt: Ixtlan del Rio is an archaeological site located in the Ixtlan del Rio municipality, on the south west region of the Nayarit State, Mexico. It is also known as "Los Toriles" and contains the only vestiges of the western cultures in Nayarit. The presence of prehispanic vestiges in the form of Petroglyphs are registered in five areas, the most important are "El Terrero," "Sayulapa" and "El Veladero," which depict sgraffiti lines and representations of abstract figures, such as spirals with rays. Of the traditional Shaft Tombs, five large concentration areas are identified, containing human bone remains; domestic pottery ollas, comales and cantaros (pitchers)]; as well as sculpture type remains (hu...
