People have been living in Prescott for a long, long time… and we have some very old rocks to prove it. Check out Prescott’s famous petroglyphs in our latest episode.
Video Transcript hello hello hello fellow pickle peeps
hello
peeps this is diana randall bro here
we are on this lovely lovely day today
we are excited this fella over my
shoulder here
yeah she’s very uncomfortable with me
this close
correct it’s kind of invading my
personal space
she has sort of a rabbit instinct to
flee
as you approach well not really flea it
is survival mode
well you’re flying that way anytime she
attacks yeah correct correct
anyway we are here today to talk about
something really cool about prescott
yes uh petroglyphs that’s glyphs
petroglyphs uh we used to have at one
point
a very large indian population yeah way
back in the day
uh especially in different sections of
prescott
you will find groupings of petroglyphs
what are petroglyphs mr brown uh
well the the petra means rock
and glyphs is writing so it’s uh stone
writing
i knew he was writing on stone
oh very old yeah so yeah so not like a
new one like i know
the rage right now is for people to
paint their own rocks not quite the same
um a petroglyph is truly an authentic
uh rocks with with paintings on them
from
thousands of years ago some of them yeah
and it would be
a lot of times they would place them
with good indicators like you know
here’s a deer that you know deer running
through there yeah
yeah uh it was a way of marking along
the paths
yeah well obviously to some extent we
don’t really know what some of them mean
but uh some of the symbols uh
repeat again and again have certain
themes
uh there’s a spiraling out circle
or square uh which is what does that
mean
um they think it has something to do
with uh like a religious uh
kind of like go forth and multiply oh uh
in the bible so maybe like a positive
yeah
like the idea is you are here right now
and
god wants you to you know to expand
in all directions yeah is that your
interpretation no no no
i didn’t make it up i mean of course i
didn’t talk to send anyone who wrote one
because they’ve all been dead for
hundreds of years but but
that’s what they that’s why i think that
that particular and it gets a positive
message
positive methods basically go forth and
multiply
so you will find a lot of these
groupings of uh petroglyphs uh
sprinkled throughout yeah prescott out
in talking rock there’s a whole
section you can hike way out there and
find
their collection of petroglyphs which is
why talking rock got their name
it’s uh all of these rocks convey a
message
yeah so talky rock discovered it and
thought hmm there we go where can we go
with this
talking rock yeah uh prescott lakes also
has
uh several sections lots of sections um
even when you’re walking along the path
there’s a grouping they’ll be just right
there
i mean right yeah we’ve had a couple of
individual privately owned homes that
actually have petroglyphs
in their yard yeah they have big rocks
that uh
they built around to preserve them so
it’s pretty cool
i i would like to have a petroglyph yeah
you get a petroglyph well you can’t
you can’t take it we can get uh you know
reenactments
what do you call them uh uh reenact
recreations
[Music]
there’s one area on top of
mesa in prescott lakes called
solstice park or heritage park
solstice mesa but it’s called solstice
because the petroglyphs in that
particular area
are aligned with the summer and
winter solstice it’s pretty
sophisticated and so their street by it
is called solstice
that’s why i got the name the theme of
seoul but you can hike up there
right in the middle of prescott lakes
and see this uh
outcropping and how they’ve lined it up
pretty sophisticated for that time
to uh drive up with the yeah so that
they figured yeah that was the
same thing like stonehenge certain
things are yeah aligned with uh
celestial
occurrences um so it can’t be can’t be
we need to walk up there and see it once
yeah yeah we have yet to go up
we just kind of took some pictures for
this but yeah yeah we need to
see pretty cool yeah absolutely
absolutely cool so
uh big indian population here at one
point traveling throughout
the the acreages of the rolling lands
here in prescott
and um yeah yeah
and some of the people you know no
longer exist
their cultures have been lost right uh
that did because some of these
uh petroglyphs date back you know a
couple thousand
yeah i think the oldest are like three
or four thousand years old so it’s
fascinating completely fascinating
absolutely
how you know prescott is just has this
the spirit and the soul of those that
proceeded before us
well which is a great team yeah diane’s
favorite
rock that doesn’t have any writing on it
well yeah if you come in and i take you
to prescott lakes you’ll see it
we won’t talk about it well yeah but
it’s very maybe a later one we’ll we’ll
kind of get into it
i’ll show a picture of it you’ll see it
all you’ll figure it out when you see
the picture
it’s a very specific uh interesting rock
formation um very hard they can’t remove
it they’ve tried
it won’t go down it won’t go it won’t
come together the hardest substance
known to man they cannot remove it
anyway it’s not really a petroglyph it’s
just an interesting rock formation and
it has a certain name
here in prescott lakes and uh we’ll let
your imagination
you’ll see a picture of it shortly but
no gloves on it
no glyphs they’ve tried nothing maybe
they tried yeah
yeah they couldn’t find it right carving
tools that were
we totally tried diamonds it wasn’t okay
all right anyway uh if you want to learn
about
the just fascinating history of prescott
and what it was like before
it became our little sprawling western
town in 1864.
uh come in here we also have a lot of
museums around that covers all of the
indians and
you can buy your own cocopelli coffee
mugs cocoa pellets but they’ll tell you
all about
what who was here before us and
uh the beautiful beautiful history that
they brought to
our town yeah absolutely all right so
petroglyphs are cool
uh the other rock formation is pretty
cool too that’s pretty cool
it’s pretty cool that it was uh
naturally made very imposing
you’ll see see what you think uh so we
wanted to share that with you
uh we have a pretty cool town yeah
absolutely very deep
deep and far rooted history here
if you need more information a place to
find it is pickle411.com
yes see about petroglyphs and hiking
trails and
all those kinds of things absolutely
give us a call we’d love to
show you in person some of these
petroglyphs uh
especially if we’re in prescott lakes uh
we’ll show you where it’s located
and we’d love to show you around our
lovely town in general it’s a great
great town
great town with lots to offer and we’d
also love to list your home
so give us a call if you’re thinking
about moving on or moving to a different
place
we’d love to help you on both sides uh
along that process
absolutely right that’s it anything else
to add absolutely nothing that is all
right that’s it for today um come
see us come check out the petroglyphs
love to see you
bye have a good day
hello
peeps this is diana randall bro here
we are on this lovely lovely day today
we are excited this fella over my
shoulder here
yeah she’s very uncomfortable with me
this close
correct it’s kind of invading my
personal space
she has sort of a rabbit instinct to
flee
as you approach well not really flea it
is survival mode
well you’re flying that way anytime she
attacks yeah correct correct
anyway we are here today to talk about
something really cool about prescott
yes uh petroglyphs that’s glyphs
petroglyphs uh we used to have at one
point
a very large indian population yeah way
back in the day
uh especially in different sections of
prescott
you will find groupings of petroglyphs
what are petroglyphs mr brown uh
well the the petra means rock
and glyphs is writing so it’s uh stone
writing
i knew he was writing on stone
oh very old yeah so yeah so not like a
new one like i know
the rage right now is for people to
paint their own rocks not quite the same
um a petroglyph is truly an authentic
uh rocks with with paintings on them
from
thousands of years ago some of them yeah
and it would be
a lot of times they would place them
with good indicators like you know
here’s a deer that you know deer running
through there yeah
yeah uh it was a way of marking along
the paths
yeah well obviously to some extent we
don’t really know what some of them mean
but uh some of the symbols uh
repeat again and again have certain
themes
uh there’s a spiraling out circle
or square uh which is what does that
mean
um they think it has something to do
with uh like a religious uh
kind of like go forth and multiply oh uh
in the bible so maybe like a positive
yeah
like the idea is you are here right now
and
god wants you to you know to expand
in all directions yeah is that your
interpretation no no no
i didn’t make it up i mean of course i
didn’t talk to send anyone who wrote one
because they’ve all been dead for
hundreds of years but but
that’s what they that’s why i think that
that particular and it gets a positive
message
positive methods basically go forth and
multiply
so you will find a lot of these
groupings of uh petroglyphs uh
sprinkled throughout yeah prescott out
in talking rock there’s a whole
section you can hike way out there and
find
their collection of petroglyphs which is
why talking rock got their name
it’s uh all of these rocks convey a
message
yeah so talky rock discovered it and
thought hmm there we go where can we go
with this
talking rock yeah uh prescott lakes also
has
uh several sections lots of sections um
even when you’re walking along the path
there’s a grouping they’ll be just right
there
i mean right yeah we’ve had a couple of
individual privately owned homes that
actually have petroglyphs
in their yard yeah they have big rocks
that uh
they built around to preserve them so
it’s pretty cool
i i would like to have a petroglyph yeah
you get a petroglyph well you can’t
you can’t take it we can get uh you know
reenactments
what do you call them uh uh reenact
recreations
[Music]
there’s one area on top of
mesa in prescott lakes called
solstice park or heritage park
solstice mesa but it’s called solstice
because the petroglyphs in that
particular area
are aligned with the summer and
winter solstice it’s pretty
sophisticated and so their street by it
is called solstice
that’s why i got the name the theme of
seoul but you can hike up there
right in the middle of prescott lakes
and see this uh
outcropping and how they’ve lined it up
pretty sophisticated for that time
to uh drive up with the yeah so that
they figured yeah that was the
same thing like stonehenge certain
things are yeah aligned with uh
celestial
occurrences um so it can’t be can’t be
we need to walk up there and see it once
yeah yeah we have yet to go up
we just kind of took some pictures for
this but yeah yeah we need to
see pretty cool yeah absolutely
absolutely cool so
uh big indian population here at one
point traveling throughout
the the acreages of the rolling lands
here in prescott
and um yeah yeah
and some of the people you know no
longer exist
their cultures have been lost right uh
that did because some of these
uh petroglyphs date back you know a
couple thousand
yeah i think the oldest are like three
or four thousand years old so it’s
fascinating completely fascinating
absolutely
how you know prescott is just has this
the spirit and the soul of those that
proceeded before us
well which is a great team yeah diane’s
favorite
rock that doesn’t have any writing on it
well yeah if you come in and i take you
to prescott lakes you’ll see it
we won’t talk about it well yeah but
it’s very maybe a later one we’ll we’ll
kind of get into it
i’ll show a picture of it you’ll see it
all you’ll figure it out when you see
the picture
it’s a very specific uh interesting rock
formation um very hard they can’t remove
it they’ve tried
it won’t go down it won’t go it won’t
come together the hardest substance
known to man they cannot remove it
anyway it’s not really a petroglyph it’s
just an interesting rock formation and
it has a certain name
here in prescott lakes and uh we’ll let
your imagination
you’ll see a picture of it shortly but
no gloves on it
no glyphs they’ve tried nothing maybe
they tried yeah
yeah they couldn’t find it right carving
tools that were
we totally tried diamonds it wasn’t okay
all right anyway uh if you want to learn
about
the just fascinating history of prescott
and what it was like before
it became our little sprawling western
town in 1864.
uh come in here we also have a lot of
museums around that covers all of the
indians and
you can buy your own cocopelli coffee
mugs cocoa pellets but they’ll tell you
all about
what who was here before us and
uh the beautiful beautiful history that
they brought to
our town yeah absolutely all right so
petroglyphs are cool
uh the other rock formation is pretty
cool too that’s pretty cool
it’s pretty cool that it was uh
naturally made very imposing
you’ll see see what you think uh so we
wanted to share that with you
uh we have a pretty cool town yeah
absolutely very deep
deep and far rooted history here
if you need more information a place to
find it is pickle411.com
yes see about petroglyphs and hiking
trails and
all those kinds of things absolutely
give us a call we’d love to
show you in person some of these
petroglyphs uh
especially if we’re in prescott lakes uh
we’ll show you where it’s located
and we’d love to show you around our
lovely town in general it’s a great
great town
great town with lots to offer and we’d
also love to list your home
so give us a call if you’re thinking
about moving on or moving to a different
place
we’d love to help you on both sides uh
along that process
absolutely right that’s it anything else
to add absolutely nothing that is all
right that’s it for today um come
see us come check out the petroglyphs
love to see you
bye have a good day
