The Pecos River Style pictographs of this region are among the most sophisticated prehistoric paintings in North America: large-scale figures of shamans, animals, and spiritual beings, painted in polychrome colors on shelter walls, some reaching eight or ten feet in height.

These paintings were made during roughly the same Archaic period that produced the burials at Bering Sinkhole and Buckeye Knoll — the same several-thousand-year span when the hunter-gatherers of the Texas region were building their complex adaptations to post-Pleistocene landscapes.

The people who left their dead in sinkholes on the plateau may well have been the same people, or cultural relatives of the same people, who painted those extraordinary images on the canyon walls of the Lower Pecos.

The connection between the two kinds of evidence — the burial remains and the rock art — is not established with certainty.