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Desert Bighorn Sheep 14 - Native People and the Bighorn The southwestern indigenous people hunted the Bighorn and held it in the highest esteem. It was included in their prayers as evidenced throughout petroglyph and pictograph sites. It may have been the Bighorn as a plentiful and nutritious food source that originally brought them into the range. Hunting was more productive than gathering. Preparation of meat was much simpler and faster than gathering and processing seeds and roots. Later, as the availablity of the Bighorn decreased, probably due to human population increases and improved hunting techniques, methods of gathering and the preparation of alternative food sources developed. < previous - next > |
Bighorn Sheep Petroglyph