Beautiful Afternoon over Red Rock Valley

Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Area  is located just to the west of Las Vegas Nevada.  The hill on the left side of  this image is called Blue Diamond Hill and on the right side of the valley is are the Red Rock Cliffs Bridge Mountain, then left of that is Rainbow Mountain and Mount Wilson followed by the Sandstone Bluffs. 

Red Rock is a place very popular with climbers who love to  practice on its many cliff faces scattered throughout the park. The  highest point is La Madre Mountain, at 8,154 feet (2,485 m).   

In the distance along the mountain line is Mount Potosi and all of  these are part of the Spring Mountains. 

The following is from this Research Source:  

 The first humans were attracted to the Red Rock area due to its  resources of water, plant, and animal life that could not be easily  found in the surrounding desert. Hunters and gatherers such as the  historical Southern Paiute and the much older Archaic, or Desert Culture  Native Americans, have successively occupied this area. 

As many as six different First Nations Native American  cultures may have been present at Red Rock over the millennia. The  following chronology is an approximation, from the present to ancient  pre-history: 

 · Southern Paiute- 900 to modern times
· Patayan Culture - 900 to early historic times in the 1800s
· Anasazi - 1 AD to 1150
· Pinto/Gypsum- (Archaic) 3500 BC to 1 AD
· San Dieguito - 7000 to 5500 BC
· Paleo-Indians (Tule Springs)- 11,000 to 8000 BC.  

 Numerous petroglyphs,  as well as pottery fragments, remain today throughout the area. In  addition, several roasting pits used by the early Native Americans at  Red Rock provide further evidence of human activity in the past.
(Research Source)  

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