| Long before Albuquerque spread its lights across the Rio Grande Valley, prehistoric people lived here. Today we find their tools, or the scattered ruins of their houses, and sometimes places where they carved petroglyphs into the rocks. The petroglyphs allow us to get close to those distant people. Sometimes the rock art seems like voices whispering to us from centuries ago. The black, volcanic cliffs that stand like a wall on Albuquerque’s West Side became a vast outdoor art gallery, or perhaps a holy place. Sometimes for religon, sometimes for a record, the people chipped their ideas and visions into the volcanic boulders. A thousand years or more of a culture's art is on that escarpment, still precious to today's Pueblo Indians, descendants of those who carved into the rocks. |
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