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The first field school in the Uspallata valley, Mendoza, took place in 2016 and was organized by the Institute for Field Research (IFR). Its goals were to clarify the use of the landscape over the last two thousand years by people with an economy that incorporated hunting, gathering, small-scale agriculture, and possibility llama herding. Research was near one of Mendoza’s best known archaeological sites, Cerro Tunduqueral. This site’s dense rock art has been known for decades, but little is...
Exchanges in Stone: Tracing the influence of Amazonian peoples on Andean ones as expressed in the rock art of Huánuco, Peru (2015)
Recent fieldwork documenting hundreds of rock art panels in the region of Huánuco, Peru has allowed the author to begin to establish a more finely tuned chronology than has previously been possible. The process of revealing this chronology involves stylistic seriation using such features as color, line thickness, superpositions, and preference for particular design features during certain periods and in certain groups. One of the surprising revelations of this work has been the widespread...
Exploring regionality: a chaîne opératoire approach to ‘style’ in the rock art of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa (2015)
Regional differences in southern African hunter-gatherer rock art have long been noted, but methods towards a rigorous definition of these regions have not been developed. Addressing a recent call for the use of style in defining rock art regions I propose a chaîne opératoire approach. Rather than focusing only on the finished product I will consider multiple factors in the production and consumption of rock art images. Instead of relying on vague notions of style, the component parts and...
The Fremont and Plant Resouces Along the Colorado-Wyoming Border (2002)
Recent work in Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado is demonstrating the extent of maize agricultural may be extended into the canyons of the Green River. This paper will look at how the Fremont utilized plant resources along their northern frontier to extend their occupation northward. We will synthesize the results of recent excavations and surveys to explain the nature ofFremont agriculture north of the Gates of Ladore on the Green River.
From Borinquen to Barbados: A Caribbean Cave Art Ritual Complex (2015)
Caribbean archaeology has provided us with evidence of a cultural mosaic that united diverse ecologies, ideologies and identities in sophisticated networks of art and ritual. Caves and cave art were fundamental to these networks. This paper outlines a complex of cave-related ritual activity across the Antilles, supported by art-historical, archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence. This proposed "Cave Art Ritual Complex" may turn out to have far-reaching implications for issues of cultural...
From Viewer to Observer: Analyzing Spatial Complexity of Pictographs in the Lower Pecos (2017)
From Viewer to Observer will discuss the visual elements of the Pecos River style rock art, exploring the painting techniques and patterns that created these complex spaces. In addition, this paper will examine Lower Pecos pictographs through David Summers’ Real Spaces, as well as other texts, to create a context within current and traditional art historical methodologies. In using Summers’ idea of the spatially aware "observer" instead of the "viewer" I hope to expand the boundaries of the...
The Garden Canyon Project: Studies at Two Rockshelters at Fort Huachuca, Southeastern Arizona (1993)
This report presents the results of rock art recording and analysis, and archaeological test excavations in two small rockshelters on the Fort Huachuca military reservation in southeastern Arizona. The sites were investigated as part of the Legacy Resource Management Program Demonstration Project #21 under the auspices of the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District. The Garden Canyon Pictograph Site (AA EE:11:15, ASM) and Rappell Cliffs Rockshelter (AZ...
The Garden Canyon Project: Studies at Two Rockshelters at Fort Huachuca, Southeastern Arizona (Legacy Demonstration Project #21)
This report includes discussions of rock art recording and analysis, and the archaeological test excavations in two small rockshelters on the Fort Huachuca military reservation. The area was occupied on repeated occasions (not permanently) as a temporary camp used while exploiting mammals and possibly wild plant foods during the 13th century.
The Garden Canyon Project: Studies at Two Rockshelters at Fort Huachuca, Southeastern Arizona - Report (Legacy Demonstration Project #21) (1993)
This report includes discussions of rock art recording and analysis, and the archaeological test excavations in two small rockshelters on the Fort Huachuca military reservation. The area was occupied on repeated occasions (not permanently) as a temporary camp used while exploiting mammals and possibly wild plant foods during the 13th century.
Getting Up-Close and Personal with Pecos River Style Rock Art (2016)
Pecos River style rock art in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas and Coahuila, Mexico is arguably one of the most famous and complex pictograph styles in North America, if not the world. Thirty-two radiocarbon assays obtained from 19 figures range from 4200 ± 90 to 1465 ± 50 RCYBP. Many characteristics of the style have remained almost unchanged throughout that time. What attributes define the Pecos River style, however, are still debated, despite a seemingly iconic appearance....
High Tide in the Lower Pecos: Digital Documentation of the Threatened Rattlesnake Canyon Mural (2015)
Rockshelters of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands display visually striking and compositionally complex Pecos River style murals painted by hunter-gatherers during the Late Archaic. The Rattlesnake Canyon mural (41VV180) is regarded as one of the six finest surviving examples of this world-renowned pictograph style. However, the site is severely threatened by repeated flooding episodes along the Rio Grande, exacerbated in recent years by siltation of Amistad Reservoir. Three known flooding episodes...
The Hilight Petroglyph Boulder, Historic Period Rock Art in Northeastern Wyoming (2001)
A small petroglyph boulder is in the open prairie country of northeastern Wyoming. On the upper flat surface are incised dim lines appearing to interact with an alignment of three animal tracks. The rock is believed to relate to a Late Prehistoric or early Historic Period of Native American rock art iil the Powder River Basin.
The Hindquarters of God, Seeing the Sacred in a Landscape: (2015)
The Hindquarters of God, Seeing the Sacred in a Landscape: As the needs of our expanding society increasingly refashion our natural environment, we struggle to maintain healthy habitats and our sacred places. Archaeologists, land developers, lawmakers, theologians, and indigenous practioners of traditional spirituality all struggle with conflicting views of what do we mean when we declare that something is sacred and how do we recognize and preserve sacred places. The burning questions at...
Historic Japanese Sites of Southwestern Wyoming Revised and Revisited: Japanese Rock Art and Tombstones: Immigration Patterns on the Northern Plains and in the Rocky Mountains (2001)
Between 1891 and 1899 Japanese immigrants began to arrive in Alberta, Montana, and Wyoming. Little is provided in the historic documentation about where these immigrants came from in Japan. The archaeological record, however, provides reliable information about the origins of these "sojourners." Using Japanese tombstones, rock art, and inscriptions on stone we have been able to piece together where the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Japanese immigrants came from within...
How to Capture a Photograph worth a Thousand words: Photographic Documentation of Rock Art in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas (2016)
Digital photography provides increasingly sophisticated applications that are invaluable to rock art researchers. Shumla Archaeological Research and Education Center relies heavily on many of these applications to document, preserve, and analyze rock art—such as 3D modeling through Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry, multi-focal stacking, color management, and digital field microscopy for stratigraphic analyses. Depending on which applications are used, there are important considerations...
How values, prejudice, and social issues shape rock art research in North America. (2015)
We present a brief history of rock art research in North America, identifying some of the social forces and schools of thought that have shaped these studies within and outside of the confines of traditional archaeology. Among relevant issues within academia are prevailing paradigms that aspire to specific goals and interests that orient archaeological research. Even when these interests and concerns would benefit from the analysais of prehistoric images made by the socio/cultural groups under...
Huichol Symbolism and the Interpretation of Rock Art in the Western Sierra of Jalisco Mexico (2015)
The Huichol are not known to have inhabited the western sierra of Jalisco in historic times. However, it has been possible to use Huichol symbolism to interpret rock art at several locations in this region. This was first done with the large pictograph panel at La Peña Pintada in the Tomatlan river valley, indicating the use of the sun’s position on the eastern horizon as a dry season/wet season calendar and individual pictographs depicting plants and animals important for native subsistence. ...
The Hunter's Revenge: Magical Use of a Petroglyph (2015)
A petroglyph panel at 48SW85 in southwestern Wyoming presents a convincing case for the use of rock art imagery in hunting magic rituals. Based on differential weathering and revarnishing of the petroglyphs, different stylistic signatures of artists carving various animals and humans, and key superimpositions, the panel can be confidently identified as the product of at least half a dozen artists reusing the site for more than a century, and possibly much longer. The panel's basic structure...
Images-in-the-Making: Process and Vivification in Pecos River Style Rock Art (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Art of Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas and northern Mexico are home to one of the most sophisticated and compositionally intricate rock art traditions in the world—the Pecos River style. This style is characterized by finely executed, polychromatic figures woven together to form mythic narratives. Artists depicted and vivified the actors in these...
In the Morning House: The Redhorn Cycle Depicted in Rock Art from Kentucky (2018)
This presentation reports on a new rock art site from Kentucky, brought to the authors' attention by local citizens. Inside a large sandstone rockshelter, more than a dozen black pictographs show several anthropomorphic characters. These images bear distinctive features and regalia associated with the "Redhorn Cycle" hero narrative reported by Paul Radin in 1948 from his ethnographic work among the Ho-Chunk. The rock art from this "Morning House" strongly resembles well-known Mississippian...
An Indication of Hunting Activities from Southern Nevada rock art (2015)
Rock art hunting scenes are often ascribed as hunting magic or as part of a shamanistic ritual in which the rock art panel portrays the desired outcome of a hunt. However, it can be argued that there are petroglyph panels that depict what was actually occurring at a site. 26CK383 is a prehistoric site in Southern Nevada with numerous rock art panels, including one panel that shows two anthropomorphs directing desert bighorn sheep into what appears to be a corral. This could be a representation...
Indigenous Way Stations of Colonial New Mexico: New Evidence from the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument (2017)
As the horse spread across the American Southwest on the heels of Spanish colonial project, Native American ways of moving were abruptly transformed. This was particularly the case for the many indigenous peoples from the Plains and Rocky Mountains who used equestrianism to build new regional economies based on wide-ranging nomadism. Along with these new ways of moving came a new emphasis on particular sorts of archaeological sites—notably, on the "way station" as a point on the landscape that...
Informe técnico 2012 — Imágenes de Oxtotitlán y Cahuaziziqui (2012)
Imágenes fotográficas, computacionales, y compuestas adjuntas al informe técnico Proyecto sobre la escritura temprana. Arte, cosmovisión y símbolo en la evolución de la complejidad mesoaméricana. Estudios de las cuevas de Oxtotitlán y Cahuaziziqui,Guerrero, México, Primera temporada (Enero 2012). Christopher L. von Nagy y Mary D. Pohl.
Inscribed Places: Examining Rock Art Sites on the Pajarito Plateau (2015)
At Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), one constantly encounters cultural remains of the past, whether they are of research buildings utilized during the Manhattan Era, or the remnants of dwellings of Pre-Columbian farmers on the Pajarito Plateau. Rock art sites are often encountered places where images of various meanings have been physically pecked and scratched out by people inscribing their identities and worldviews onto the surrounding landscape. Because a landscape can persist in form...
Instructor, Boss, Mentor and Friend: The Multi-Talented Dr. Loendorf (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I was a college student in elementary education when I was inspired by the enthusiasm of an instructor in a class I took for fun: Intro to Archaeology and Physical Anthropology. It changed the course of my life. Larry’s contributions to our field are enormous and varied as he is a man of intellectual curiosity,...