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Ariana Enriquez, a local artist, was commissioned to create interior artwork for the store depicting the local White Tank Mountains, native wildlife, and petroglyphs from the Hohokam and Western Yavapai people.
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Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Somebody has carved a perfect petroglyph of a sun into the sandstone.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Its image is painted on ancient Southwestern pottery and chiseled into prehistoric petroglyphs that line Texas canyons.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
Rather than small, hidden petroglyphs, these panels covered giant cliff faces that stretched up to 39 meters (128 ft) in height – something that would have required adventurous artists to scale narrow ledges to leave their mark.
—New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
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Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Somebody has carved a perfect petroglyph of a sun into the sandstone.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Its image is painted on ancient Southwestern pottery and chiseled into prehistoric petroglyphs that line Texas canyons.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
Rather than small, hidden petroglyphs, these panels covered giant cliff faces that stretched up to 39 meters (128 ft) in height – something that would have required adventurous artists to scale narrow ledges to leave their mark.
—New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Petroglyph.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petroglyph. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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