Barrier Canyon Style Rock Art

Rock art which may or may not be Barrier Canyon Style (BCS). This southwestern US style dates from the "archaic" period (probably late archaic) and is estimated (from direct and indirect carbon 14 dates) to be somewhere in the range of 1500 to 4000 years old, possibly older (some indirect carbon 14 dates suggests they style could be 8000 years old). Panels in this style are most prominent in south and east Utah, with the largest concentration of sites in and around the San Rafael Swell and Canyonlands National Park, but the full range extends into western Colorado and maybe northern Arizona. The defining sites for this style of rock art are the many panels along Barrier Creek in what is now called Horseshoe Canyon in a detached unit of Canyonlands National Park, Utah.