TPW TV -- HUECO TANKS: Using high tech to uncover art 
from the past ... ahead on Passport to Texas

This is Passport to Texas (March 11)

Hueco Tanks, about 30 miles east of El Paso, is one of the 
most important pictograph sites in the Southwest, with 
the largest collection of painted faces in North America. 

16 -- There really is no other place like Hueco Tanks, in terms of 
the nature and the number of the pictograph images. And for a 
tiny place of only eight hundred and sixty acres there's just an 
amazing number of separate pictograph sites.

We visit the park next week during a segment of the TPW 
TV series on PBS.

14 -- This mask that we sometimes call starry eyed man has 
been staring out of his little niche in the rocks for between six 
hundred and eighteen hundred years. Um, it's amazing that it's 
in such good condition.

Vandals damaged several paintings with graffiti. During 
the TV segment, we watch as scientists, use high tech 
devices to restore the pictographs.

19 -- This is pre Colombian, and the graffiti is about fifty years 
old. We're using infrared light, and it's the similar technology 
that's used in tattoo removal to take tattoos off, so you can be 
very precise with the laser. The work is going really well, it's 
really difficult for me to stop because it's really exciting! 

Check out the segment about Hueco Tanks next week ont 
eh TPW TV Series on PBS. Check your local listings.

That's our show ... Funding provided in part by Ram 
Trucks. Guts. Glory. Ram
 
For Texas Parks and Wildlife...I'm Cecilia Nasti








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