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Sedona Petroglyphs: Rock Art at Red Tank Draw Near Sedona Arizona

Stick Figure Petroglyph Near Sedona Arizona
Petroglyphs at Red Tank Draw.

Sedona, AZ: The panel of petroglyphs is hidden from view, a large juniper obscuring the boulder located just before a narrow one-lane bridge that crosses Red Tank Draw.  The petroglyphs are shallow and difficult to make out or distinguish from naturally occurring markings on the lichen-covered rock.  But a few moments of patient study pays off and the figures and symbols emerge.

Often referred to as “rock art,” there are two categories of application: petroglyphs and pictographs.  Petroglyphs, also commonly shortened to “glyphs,” are pecked or chiseled into the rock; pictographs are painted onto the rock. Both types have lasted centuries after their application.



The glyphs at the bridge include two distinctive human-like forms and vertical wavy lines.  While from a strictly scientific point of view, interpretation of petroglyphs and pictographs is speculation at best (and therefore, not scientific), modern Puebloan cultures such as the Hopi and Zuni believe the symbols were left behind by ancestral tribes and clans and the meaning of the symbols passed down through oral tradition. 







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