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Newspaper Rock Recreation Site

Address: Rte. 211, about 15 mi west of U.S. 191, Monticello, UT

Category: Native American Sites
Location: Monticello

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One of the West's most famous rock-art sites, Newspaper Rock Recreation Site contains Native American etchings that were engraved on the rock over the course of 2,000 years. Apparently, early pioneers and explorers to the region named the site Newspaper Rock because they believed the rock, crowded with drawings, constituted a written language with which early people communicated. Archaeologists now agree the petroglyphs do not represent language. The site is northwest of Monticello.

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