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Greaser Petroglyph Site
The Greaser Petroglyph Site is located on land owned by the Bureau of Land Management in eastern Lake County, Oregon. The designs were scraped into a basalt boulder by Native Americans perhaps 12,000 years ago. No one knows the meaning of the designs. Because of its unique archaeological and cultural significance, the Greaser Petroglyph Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
== Prehistoric art ==
Native Americans have lived in southeastern Oregon for at least 15,000 years, according to a 2012 find in the Paisley Caves. At that time, pluvial lakes filled many of the high desert basins. Little is known about the people who occupied the land at that time, except that they camped and hunted near the lakes. The earliest petroglyphs in southeastern Oregon may be as much as 15,000 years old or much older.〔Cressman, Luther S., ''The Sandal and the Cave'', Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Beaver Books, Portland, Oregon, 1964, pp. 21–22.〕〔("Cultural Resources" ) (PDF), ''Summary of the Analysis of the Management Situation for the Lakeview Resource Area – Resource Management Plan'', Lakeview Field Office, Lakeview District, Bureau of Land Management, United State Department of Interior, Lakeview, Oregon, July 2000, pp. 2.28–2.29.〕〔("Greaser Petroglyph, OR" ), Waymarking (posted by ''Volcanoguy''), Groundspeak Inc., ''www.waymarking.com'', 16 October 2007.〕
In 1840, when the first white men came through southern Oregon, the Fort Bidwell Band and the Harney Valley Band of the Northern Paiute tribe lived in the southeastern part of Oregon around Greaser Canyon. However, given the age of the carvings, it is possible that the Northern Paiute people had nothing to do with their creation.〔
The meanings of the Greaser petroglyphs are not known. They may have been used in religious ceremonies or marked tribal ownership of territory. The designs may have been map directions or simply art created to tell a personal story. No one knows.〔
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