RARE GLYPHS FOUND\Study urged before Banning park built.Byline: Dave Downey Riverside Press-Enterprise A boulder with rare petroglyphs or rock carvings has been found on the site of Banning's proposed Smith Creek Streams Smith Creek is the name of at least 417 named streams in the United States (see USGS source below). Among these are:
Cahuilla Indian elder Alvino Siva, who lives in Banning, urged city officials last week to study the petroglyphs before constructing the equestrian-oriented park. Malki Museum President Katherine Saubel wrote the city a letter requesting a study, emphasizing the importance of hiring a top-notch archeologist to assess the significance of the find. Once a study is completed, Siva said he would like to see the city make the stone, about 5 feet by 6 feet, a feature along a nature walk, with trail guides or interpretive information on signs. "It shouldn't be disturbed," Siva said. "It should be left alone." Don Foster, city community services director, said a cultural study is planned, and discussions are under way with the University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of ten campuses of the University of California system. . Foster said nature trails already are planned for Smith Creek, and highlighting the stone along one of them is a good idea. "It falls in line with what we had planned, anyway," he said. Foster said the city is looking into the best way to protect the stone, but has not yet decided on a strategy. Lewis Robertson, who ranched the park site before the city owned it, found the petroglyphs. Dan McCarthy Dan McCarthy is the name of:
"The concern is there has not been a study on the entire property, which is usually required before any development," McCarthy said. "I know there are other spots out there, but I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how many and what they are." McCarthy called the boulder a "rare find." He said there are about 450 sites in Riverside County where stones with petroglyphs or pictographs - rock paintings - have been found. Most of the carvings have been found in the desert, while most of the discoveries in the west county have been paintings. And so it is unusual to find a carving in the San Gorgonio Pass San Gorgonio Pass (el. 2,600 ft. / 792 m) cuts between the San Bernardino Mountains on the north and the San Jacinto Mountains to the south. Like the Cajon Pass to the northwest, it was also created by the San Andreas Fault. . Also, the Banning find is one of only about a dozen in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, with a maze design, McCarthy said. "It's a geometric pattern." Similar designs have been found near Hemet, Lakeview and Winchester in western Riverside County, as well as in San Diego, Imperial and Orange counties, he said. |
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