While the full extent and use of these glyphs is not known, to date, these men have located, logged and photographed more than one hundred instances of this petroglyph and many of the water sources they point to, in three different states throughout the entire homeland of the Anasazi.

By following these directions, a person can literally cross the entire Arizona Strip, from House Rock Valley in Arizona on the East, to Beaver Dam in Nevada on the West. By following these "line-of-sight" directions, travelers can find water sources, natural water caches and/or villages.

Bob & Dixon are currently cataloging the location of all the known glyphs and are in the process they are finding new sites, by simply following this system of writing in the desert.

Dixon relates:  "The other day I was telling some of the local morning coffee drinkers about our findings and several people were skeptical.  I finally told them to come see for themselves.  So, after work we agreed to follow a know glyph to the indicated location, which none of us had ever visited.  If the theory was correct, then not only should we find water, but we should also find another glyph indicating the next spring. So we went, found the water and the next glyph. They stopped heckling."

"This thing is serious."  He continues, "We're at the point now, that if we were to find the petroglyph on a site and NOT find water, I would say the water has dried up since they [the Anasazi] were here - we're that sure."

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