{"id":4043,"date":"2016-06-02T16:24:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2022-07-01T19:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:44:47","slug":"we-saw-some-interesting-petroglyphs-just-outside-alburqueque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=4043","title":{"rendered":"We saw some interesting petroglyphs just outside Alburqueque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re here in Alburqueque, NM for a visit, and we found an area with lot of petroglyphs very close to the city. \u00a0It&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/petr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petroglyph National Monument<\/a>. \u00a0The areas with the petroglyphs are based around some volcanos where the volcanic rock spilled down the hillsides in huge chunks and the ancestral Puebloans found that by scraping off the top layer of black on the rocks it would expose a lighter shade underneath. 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