EARLY TREASURE SIGNS Man has always concealed his treasures and other valuable possessions. People hid riches, food, weapons or even sacred burial sites. In many cases, such possessions were stored in remote caves, on mountainsides, under rock outcroppings or near some geographic landmark that could later be recognized. In order to relocate their caches or describe their location to others, individuals marked the landscape to guide them back to their stash. In some cases, this was accomplished by stacking rocks in a particular manner. Native Americans often bent young trees and tied them off so that they would continue to point in a particular direction as they matured. Such early monuments and trail markers were meant to appear natural to the casual passer-by. But those who knew what they were looking for found trail markings as good as a modern road map. Early tribesmen, Mayans, Incas and Aztecs used pictographs and petroglyphs to help them remember where they concealed their precious Understanding Treasure Signs and Symbols
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