I spotted this very peculiar petroglyph, which was a round object.

“我了这个非常奇特的岩石雕刻，上面是一个圆形物体。”

Spiral Jetty's strange markings deliberately reference prehistoric architecture - as well as American, Indian petroglyphs found in Utah, early spirals are found in many places in the Americas.

《螺旋形防波堤》的奇怪标记故意参考了史前建筑，及在犹他州的国、印度岩画，早期螺旋在洲的许多地方了。

You can see evidence of the Taino culture in the petroglyphs within the Virgin Islands National Park.

从维尔京群岛国家公园内的岩画中，你看到泰诺文明的证据。

There are also thousands of petroglyphs created thousands of years ago.

那里还有上千年前创造的上千个岩画。

Visitors walk through lava fields filled with petroglyphs.

游客走过充满岩画的熔岩区域。

Partially through evidence in petroglyphs, written observations of European explorers, and Polynesian oral traditions.

部分通过岩画中的证据、欧洲探险家的书面观察记录及波利尼西亚的口述传了解。

You can see these petroglyphs and rock formations by driving through the park.

你可驾车穿过公园来欣赏这些岩画和岩石构造。

And on the wall, a cliff that they were working on this fine-grained basalt, there are actually petroglyphs, anthropomorphic petroglyphs that I think maybe are marking ownership.

在岩壁上，他们正在加工的这块细粒玄武岩上，确实有岩画， 是人形的岩画， 我想这些或许是在标记所有权。

The story of Hawaiian petroglyphs, which still seizes news headlines down to the present day.

夏威夷的岩画故事，至今仍是新闻头条的常客。

And then down on the big island where they have the volcanic terrain, there are several well-known petroglyph sites.

在拥有火山地貌的大岛上，存在几处着名的岩画遗址。

And there are several thousand petroglyphs there in a great big cluster.

那里有数千个岩画，聚集成一大片。

And the sand will wash away, and then you see the petroglyphs.

沙子会被冲走，然后你就能看到岩画了。

Yeah, the petroglyphs, they occur across the islands in different places.

是的，岩画遍布各岛，出在不同的地方。

I mean, we can speculate as I have about petroglyphs, right?

我的意思是，我们可像我之前那样对岩画进行推测，对吧？

And we found about 18 different clusters like this of petroglyphs, each probably associated with a water source.

我们了大约18处类似的岩画群，每处可能与一个水源地相关。

And so the earth, you know, straight on the debris of their occupation began to build up and build up against covering the lower layer of petroglyphs.

于是，土地便在人类活动遗留的废墟上逐渐堆积，层层叠起，最终覆盖了那些较早时期的岩画底层。

It has petroglyphs on the wall.

墙上刻有岩画。

I've studied other petroglyph sites, for example, on the island of Maui, where I did a lot of work, and the dryland side of the island area called Kahikinui.

我曾研究过其他岩画遗址，比如在茂宜岛上，我做了大量工作， 特别是在被称为卡希基努伊的岛屿干旱地区。

I don't remember what the date was, I'm sorry, but that's one case where we're able to date the petroglyphs.

我不记具体日期了， 抱歉，但那是一个我们能够确定岩画年代的例子。

Mason Well, Patrick, you mentioned the petroglyph word, and I've been saving this topic until one of the last, so let's get to it now.

梅森，帕特里克，你刚才提到了“岩画”这个词，我一直把这个话题留到最后，在我们就来谈谈吧。