A few images from La Rumorosa, Baja California - Kumeyaay Rock Art. San Diego Rock Art Association Field Trip



Just a few peeks from the San Diego Rock Art Association field trip to La Rumorosa, Baja California last week-end.  Some photographs are as untreated and the others are D-stretched.  La Rumorosa is a State Park of Baja California and is managed by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History [INAH].  We saw literally hundreds of elements and some panels are amazingly dense with multiple layers of pictographs.  The fourth photograph is of Diablito, also known as the Sun Watcher.  The small figure was determined to be a solstice marker in a published study by Archaeologist, Ken Hedges [please see Rock Art Papers, Volume 4: 17-32; 1986].  There are at least 3 of the "three headed" like anthropomorphs at the site, which, as far as I know, are unique within Kumeyaay pictographs.   We would like to thank our hosts, both of INAH and the Kumiai Community Museum in Tecate, Baja California, which is an amazing tribute to this culture housed in a beautiful setting of its own.  Click on photo to enlarge.  These photographs are copyright by Don Liponi, 2014.