{"id":865,"date":"2015-03-19T21:26:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2015-03-19T21:26:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:26:55","slug":"prehistoric-petroglyph-of-buffalo-hoof-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/prehistoric-petroglyph-of-buffalo-hoof-prints\/","title":{"rendered":"Prehistoric petroglyph of buffalo hoof prints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-866\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/015-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"015\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/015-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/015-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/015.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>At first glance this prehistoric petroglyph, rock carving, might look like eyes. \u00a0When you get close, however, you can tell that it&#8217;s actually buffalo hoof prints. \u00a0Above the prints are four carefully ground dots. \u00a0You can see two in this photo. \u00a0These are found about a five minute walk from our front door in a box canyon. \u00a0What do they mean? \u00a0Well, we wish we knew. \u00a0We suspect they are from the Late Prehistoric Period, which means made within the last 1,000 years. \u00a0Interestingly, this is the one side canyon on the ranch where prehistoric peoples could have trapped buffalo. \u00a0Is that what the petroglyph documents? \u00a0&#8220;We trapped buffalo in this canyon four times.&#8221; \u00a0 No one will ever know, but the petroglyph is a constant reminder that buffalo have been here a long time, and native peoples used them to feed their families.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mike and Annie Blakely for taking this great shot. \u00a0Ours aren&#8217;t nearly as good! \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance this prehistoric petroglyph, rock carving, might look like eyes. \u00a0When you get close, however, you can tell that it&#8217;s actually buffalo hoof prints. \u00a0Above the prints are four carefully ground dots. \u00a0You can see two in this photo. \u00a0These are found about a five minute walk from our front door in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,19,66,169,94,96,123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}