Rock Art, Agriculture, Barrier Canyon, (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Farmer.

This paper asserts that certain Ancient American painted figures traditionally associated with established rain, agriculture or fertility deities, such as the Aztec "Tlaloc," in fact evolved from previously established Archaic pre-agricultural traditions that had already defined certain spiritual entities as "rain" or "thunderstorm" deities without reference to any formal agricultural practices. Evidence is drawn from iconographic and contextual analysis of anthropomorphic figures and motifs...