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The carvings were found at a site called Castle Rock Pueblo on the Mesa Verde plateau straddling the Colorado-Utah border. Early Native Americans may have used the ancient rock carvings as a calendar. Full Story: livescience.com/archaeology/discovery-of-calendar-rock-carvings-from-ancestral-pueblo-in-us-southwest-surpasses-wildest-expectations
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The carvings were found at a site called Castle Rock Pueblo on the Mesa Verde plateau straddling the Colorado-Utah border. Early Native Americans may have used the ancient rock carvings as a calendar. Full Story: livescience.com/archaeology/discovery-of-calendar-rock-carvings-from-ancestral-pueblo-in-us-southwest-surpasses-wildest-expectations
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