Pecos River Canyon

Our trips were led by Shumla School of Archaeology members, Dr. Carolyn Boyd, Dr Phil Dering and Elton Prewitt

Attendees: Chris & Pete Seyl, Lucy & Bob Berglund, Barbara & Bill Simms, Linda & Roy McConkey, Sharon Hanna, Dean Brinkman, John Jeheber, Idell Conaway, Billye & Earl Head and Glenna Dean (NM State Archaeologist)

Seminole Canyon

Paint Shelter

Paint Shelter

White Shaman Cave

Lewis Canyon Petroglyph Site

One of Dr. Glenna Dean’s evening lectures

LOWER PECOS ROCKART

The painted images adorning the walls of hundreds of rockshelters and minor overhangs uniquely define the Lower Pecos archeological region. The striking and inspiring rock art of the region is celebrated, photographed, illustrated, recorded, and studied by hundreds of enthusiasts across the country.

Jack Skiles Museum

Mile Canyon - Eagle Cave

Bonfire Shelter - Burned bison bones beneath bison jump

Bonfire Shelter - 1963-64 Excavation

BISON JUMP AT BONFIRE SHELTER

What archeologists and others call a bison "jump" was, of course, not a jump at all. It was, at least from the buffalo's perspective, a terrifying plunge of death. Exactly how Native American hunters engineered the bison stampedes at Bonfire Shelter will never be known. Based on historical accounts of similar bison kills in the northern Great Plains, the Bonfire stampedes were probably carefully orchestrated events that depended on luck and skill in equal measure.