Puerco Ruin is located along the Interstate 40, in the Petrified Forest National Park east of Holbrook AZ. The ruin is easly accessible from the highway. These shots were taken in the early 1990's and I was with two of my Hopi friends who explained a lot of the images to me.

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These are glyphs found in and near the area of Lomaki Ruin in Wupatki Nat Monument. Most of them are fairly well preserved but some are deteriorated from the fact they are on sandstone. The ones on Basalt are very nice.

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Wukoki is a small ruin out in the middle of the wash east of the main Wupatki sites. It has a large terrace and was once a two story structure sitting on a large flat rock outcrop. There was only one glyph in the entire area and it was on the other side of what was left of the western wall on a ledge. A small migration symbol.

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The Citadel is a ruin that sits at the top of the wash from Lomaki. It was buil on top of a basalt plug next to a very large and deep sink hole. These glyphs are at the bottom of the sink hole. It was by chance that I found them.

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I called this ruin Snake House because of the number of snake glyphs there. It is two miles east and down the wash from Lomaki. This is a very remote area of Wupatki Nat Monument and way off the beaten path. I found it while exploring the area.

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Red Canyon is s a large Petroglyph site with several galleries. There are two ruins in the canyon one in very nice condition. The archaeologists refer to it as Palatki but this is their name for it. The glyph site has a large agave pit used to cook agave root. The pit is so large it couldn't have been for private use, and judging from the variety and quantity of the glyphs as well as the age and style variations, I believe this site was a stop over for travelers along the Verde River which is less than 2 miles away. The site is also near the confluence of the Verde and Sycamore Canyon the largest tributary to the north.

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Soo'hopt'sokvi is considered one of the Homol'ovi group the name was given to me by a Hopi friend who knew the correct name for the ruin. The ruin is on top of a butte and at the time I went there was under excavation. The odd thing about this ruin is that it was competely covered with the naturaly occuring agragate in the area. Being on top of a hill I thought this very odd. The ruin is almost directly accross the river (Little Colorado River) from Four Mile Ruin and Chevlon ruin.

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Homol'ovi IV is at the end of Tucker Mesa in the Little Colorado River valley. It sits on the face of a Butte the entire east face of the butte was covered with walls. The glyphs are on the west south and east side of the boulders and cliff faces around the butte. I found it one day as I was hiking on Tucker Mesa I later drove out to it. The area is closed to the public but being a local, I knew the dirt roads very well.

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These glyphs are in a place locals call The Steps in Chevlon Canyon one of many canyons that run south to north on the Moggolon Rim. Chevlon is a tributary to the Little Colorado River and has many ruins and Glyph site on it. The steps is one of the largest and unfortunatley these photos don't show thge scope of it's size. At one point there is a gallery that is easily a football fields length. Unfortunately I don't have shots of two very unusual glyphs located there. One is man riding on an elk and the other appears to be a Minotaur (could be a two horn priest ).

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Located in Clear Creek north of Montezuma's Well and Montesuma Castle, the site is hard to get to and down on the creek near some very deep pools with high cliff sides. This site is small but very impressive. Because of the high canyon walls the site is very well preserved. Clear Creek is a tributary of the Verde River in central AZ.

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Turkey Tanks is one of my favorite sites to visit and I went there often. On the san Francisco Wash, the ruin sits out on a small penninsula over what are natural spring fed pools of water that never dry up. The glyph site is stretched out along the bottom of the wash below the ruin and down the wash for a ways. A mixture of mostly pecked glyphs with a few pictographs.

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