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Ancient Artwork: Images Of “Storied Rock” By NatGeo’s Stephen Alvarez

WUTC | By Ray Bassett

Published May 30, 2024 at 5:39 PM EDT

In this month’s issue of “National Geographic,” you’ll find “Storied Rock”: images of ancient artwork, above and below ground - including petroglyphs and pictographs - etchings and paintings created by Indigenous people centuries, even millennia, ago in what is now the United States from Northeast Alabama to Washington State.

Stephen Alvarez is a photographer from Sewanee, Tennessee - west of Chattanooga - who lives and works in our area.

The Wedding Rocks Petroglyph Site at Olympic National Park in Washington State.

He’s a National Geographic Explorer who has been a photographer for the magazine since 1995 - and he captured the images of “Storied Rock” for this month’s issue.