Case file · Sacred site
Winnemucca Lake petroglyphs
Deeply carved designs on limestone boulders by the dry bed of Winnemucca Lake, in Paiute country north of Reno. A 2013 study dated them to at least 10,500 years ago, the oldest dated rock art in North America.
8,500 BCE · 40.14, -119.33 · status: official
The account
The year shown is the minimum age; they may be up to 14,800 years old, from when the lake stood high around the boulders.