When faced with ancient faded images many rock art investigators have tried to recreate what the images must have looked like when new.  I hope DStretch can be useful in this quest.  Here is a slideshow of a few famous researchers and their interpretations..

This is a large and important site in the southern Sierra de Guadalupe, Baja California Sur.  INAH archaeologist Lucero Gutiérrez has a project to document and protect the sites in this sierra that are not yet open to the public.  As part of her project I photographed several sites in late 2007.  To give the viewer some sense of the context of the images I have tried a new slide show format with index images that show the positions of the photographs and popup little thumbnails.  Let me know what works and what needs improvement.  We were accompanied by INAH custodian Aaron Real Villavicencio and translator Ayla Perez.  Del Cover wrote a very fine paper about this site in 1990 and I  have included scans of the paper.

El Dipugon is a relatively small rockshelter in the Sierra de Guadalupe.  I visited it as part of the project by INAH archaeologist Lucero Gutiérrez.  Our local guide was Placido Osuna Villavicencio.  The several hour mule trip from Placido's rancho was made more interesting by the constant gentle equipates rain.  The painting in this rockshelter is wonderfully well preserved.  An amazing cast of creatures are drawn in many colors.  Perhaps an ichthyologist out there can help with the identification.  For those who would like to do their own enhancements I have also put these images on the applet page.

Near Zapotitlan Salinas in the state of Puebla, Mexico is an abandoned chapel dug into the ground.  The murals on the walls and ceiling of the chapel are fantastic and seem different than what might be expected in a Catholic church.  Unfortunately they have been vandalized, have faded and are covered with bird droppings.  In August 2007 Sheila and I visited the chapel accompanied by INAH archaeologist Antonio Porcayo Michelini and local guide Pedro Guadalupe Miranda Pacheco.

This is a special site with beautiful pictographs.  It has been studied since the late 1800's.  The custom RGB matrix does a great job of clarifying the pictograph compositions.

I visited Cueva La Trinidad and Cueva San Borjita in Baja California Sur.  Both times my guide was Salvador Castro Drew from Mulege.  They are incredible caves and provide interesting images for DStretch.  Elsewhere on this site I use other San Borjita images.  They are some of my favorites.  Usually the name is given as San Borjitas, but Salvador insisted it should be San Borjita.