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VISUAL ACTIVITYAncient Petroglyph More than a thousand years ago one or more members of the Fremont people crafted this hunting scene on a sandstone surface in Cottonwood Canyon in northeastern Utah. Four hunters aim their arrows into a flock of bighorn sheep. Other human-like forms appear in the image—perhaps shamans or decoys to move the flock toward the hunters.READING THE IMAGE: What techniques might have allowed the hunters to concentrate the flock in the way depicted?CONNECTIONS: What weapons did earlier Paleo-Indians and Archaic Indians use for killing and capturing game?
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