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Archaeologists have found no evidence that this site served as a long-term home for any groups. Instead, it apparently served as a combination stopping place for travelers and possible meeting place for several groups. The oldest pictographs at the site are at least several hundred years old, while the most recent were painted in the 1860s.
The Site

Paint Rock is home to more than 1,000 pictographs painted on a limestone cliff that is as much as 70 feet high on the north bank of the Concho River. The paintings, done in red, black, yellow, and white, stretch for more than a half-mile along the layered cliff face.

Recent studies suggest that some panels at the site show some overall organization, which archaeologists had not previously recognized at the site. The paintings depict birds, mammals, people, suns, stars, crops, weapons, and other identifiable objects, as well as abstract geometric symbols. Some pictographs clearly indicate missions, indicating that they were painted after Spain began colonizing Texas in the 1700s.