When cultured members of Western civilization think of fine art, they tend to think of it within the confines of galleries or art museums. An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art. The galleries or museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection, housed within the four walls of a man made structure.

Long before the first art gallery was built in the latest rebirth of western civilization we have called the renaissance, there was another art gallery in existence. It had neither walls nor a conservator, in the conventional sense. It was in fact, standing in a country that was unknown to the scholars and erudite of the European renaissance. It was located in a remote canyon, in a desert, in an area that a millennia after its creation was to be called Horsehoe Canyon.

Human presence in Horseshoe Canyon has been dated as far back as 7000-9000 B.C., when Native Americans hunted...