SEMINOLE CANYON: Tour the canyons ... find the history ... 
details on Passport to Texas. 			(Feb 12)

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife
 
Seminole Canyon was a popular site even 6,000 years 
ago ... and it has the history to prove it! This month, the 
park offers two tours featuring ancient rock art and a 19th 
century locomotive campsite.
	 
We offer tours down into Seminole Canyon to see the rock art. 
The cave itself has been occupied off and on for the better part of 
the past 6,000 years. The rock art in it is primarily the Pecos-
River style, which dates to between about 4,000 and 3,000 years 
ago. Lots of human-shaped figures that are often elongated often 
holding things like the atlatl spear thrower. One of the main 
features of that panel is one of these human shaped figures, 
which are often referred to as shaman, religious practitioner in a 
hunter and gatherer society. It's beautifully well preserved. :33 

The White Shaman tour is Saturday, February 17th and 21st 
from 12:30 until 2:30 PM. Admission is $10. 

The Upper Canyon tour is only about a half day tour. One of the 
sites we visit on the Upper Canyon tour is the site of the old 
saloon. There was a temporary railroad camp on the park 
between 1881 and 1884. The second Trans-continental Railway 
came through here. :15
 
Upper Canyon tour is Sunday, February 18th from 8:30 
until 11 AM. Admission is $10 and reservations are 
required.

There's more information about Seminole Canyon on the 
Texas Parks & Wildlife website. 

That's our show for today ... with research and writing 
help from Loren Seeger ... For Texas Parks and 
Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti


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