It was a petroglyph of a bear.  More often we see deer and big horn sheep in this ancient Indian Rock Art.  While in Moab, Utah we took a petroglyph tour, self-guided along both sides of the Colorado River.  I don’t know why, but I love to seek out and see this art created in stone.  “Desert Varnish,” coated on the sandstone seems to result in the best preserved specimens.  This site, in addition to the bear, includes big horn sheep and may chronicle local wildlife or a hunting trip of that era.   Modern graffiti, also present, is considered vandalism.  Rock art is protected by the Antiquities Act of 1906.