In 1932, pilot George Palmer was flying from Las Vegas to Blythe, Calif., when he saw drawings sketched on the desert. Someone had scraped away the dark surface soil to draw three human figures, two four-legged animals, and a spiral.
Like the more famous Nazca Lines in Peru, the Blythe Intaglios had gone unnoticed for so long because they were too big! The largest is over 170 feet long. Much too big to be seen from the ground.
No local Native American group claims to have made them; radiocarbon dating places their creation between 900 BCE and 1200 CE.
are you kidding me, that first guy is spearfishing and they drew the water and fish just like modern kids with crayons do. it’s crazy to me that this particular stylization for water is so universal. and the loop fishes, and the corner sun. absolutely amazing.
