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Kayla Desroches/KMXT While camping on the south end of the island one day last summer, Kodiak resident Joe Black walked by some rocks and two faces popped out at him. They were markings he identified as possible petroglyphs, and he found two carvings among them that he thinks might be anatomical – fertility symbols, he says. “The winter solstice is …

Petroglyphs on Afognak Island. Photo courtesy of Alutiiq Museum Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum’s curator of archaeology, Patrick Saltonstall, recently identified a cluster of petroglyphs carved into a rock on Afognak Island. He says they’d been aware of possible petroglyphs in the site for years, and this month he visited the area with an Afognak Native Corporation senior land patrol …