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  • The death of a pterodactyl

  • Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, Paul Bahn, Marvin Rowe
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 89 / Issue 346 / August 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 August 2015, pp. 872-884
    Print publication:
    August 2015

  • The pictograph discovered at Black Dragon Canyon, Utah, in the late 1920s, is a classic example of the Barrier Canyon style, dating probably to AD 1–1100. Creationists, however, have argued, from the incomplete preservation of the motifs, that it depicts a winged monster or pterosaur. A new study using portable X-ray fluorescence refutes this ill-founded interpretation and reveals a scene characteristic of Barrier Canyon style, featuring an anthropomorphic figure. By removing interpretational bias, the new technology finally lays to rest the Black Dragon Canyon pterosaur.