The Painted Rocks Historical Site
Just north of the Concho River near Paint Rock, a 70-foot limestone cliff showcases over 1,500 Native American pictographs—vivid images of animals, people, and symbols dating back nearly a thousand years.

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Rock Art at the Painted Rocks

There are three general phases of rock art at Paint Rock. The oldest is Pecos River Style, which theoretically spans an unlikely 5,000 years.

Winter Solstice Timeline of Solar Interactions

Shows each painting’s approx. location between fence on west end of site and gravel turnaround on east end.

A Brief History of Paint Rock

An 1885 U.S.G.S. map of the lower Concho River locates a road crossing the river just upstream from the archaeological site. The hard bottom crossing has probably been there for millennia.

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