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

The Tolar Petroglyph site in Wyoming.
Stephen Alvarez
The Tolar Petroglyph site in Wyoming.

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.
Stephen Alvarez
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.

Stephen Alvarez
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Stephen Alvarez

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