A Walk Back into Time

   My wife and I were invited to go with a group to an area of the refuge that has been occupied by humans about eight thousand years ago.  It was located on a bluff overlooking the Blitzen River Valley. 



The People rested in the open areas near their homes making stone tools and viewing the green area filled with game and fish below them.  Secondary chips are present in the areas near the ten rock circles that were habitation sites for the People. 

   Below the bluff are rock faces marked with petroglyphs.  Were they stories?  Were they braggings?  Were they religious?  Or were they just graffiti?  No one knows.  What do you think?