NEWS RELEASE - DEER VALLEY ROCK ART CENTER NEWEST POINT OF PRIDECity of Phoenix, Arizona, Official Municipal Web site - City NewsDeer Valley Rock Art Center Newest Point of Pride
The city of Phoenix's newest Point of Pride is tied to some of its oldest cultures.
The Deer Valley Rock Art Center, a 47-acre nature preserve containing more than 1,500 petroglyphs, will be officially added to Phoenix's prestigious Points of Pride at a 10 a.m. ceremony Tuesday, May 9, at 3711 W. Deer Valley Road.
The site was the overwhelming choice as the city's newest Point of Pride in voting by Valley residents that occurred over six weeks in January and February 2000.
The center will become the 27th Point of Pride. Area citizens selected the first 25 points in 1992, while local residents and the Phoenix Pride Commission added Desert Sky Pavilion in 1996.
Managed by Arizona State University's Department of Anthropology, Deer Valley Rock Art Center features petroglyphs left on more than 600 boulders throughout Hedgpeth Hills, a sacred Indian site. It is believed that they were made several hundred to a few thousand years ago by Archaic, Hohokam, Patayan and other Native American peoples.
The center provides visitors with an opportunity to learn about the past by studying the actual petroglyphs as well as interpretive exhibits that deal with such subjects as the preservation and interpretation of petroglyphs. Guided tours for schools and adult groups are available.
For more information about the Deer Valley Rock Art Center, call 623-582-8007.
The Phoenix Pride Commission was created in 1991 to foster a sense of community pride among Valley residents.
