The Art of Archaeology

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Art of Archaeology," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Many regions of the world have extensive rock art records that archive the symbolic lives of the people who have produced them through time. Many of these areas have been the objects of fascination by avid amateurs and early chroniclers, but it has only been in the last few decades that these vast repositories of visual and symbolic action have been mobilised as archaeological evidence. This session presents recent research from Australia and the USA where large systematic recording projects are documenting vast rock art repositories, mobilising a range of anthropological and archaeological approaches and new digital, scientific and visualisation techniques. These projects are engaging with decades of legacy data and creating enormous data-rich collections of archaeological material to inform new understandings of these extraordinary heritage resources.

Other Keywords
Archaic • Iconography and epigraphy • Iconography and Art: Rock Art • Rock Art • Coastal and Island Archaeology  • Shell Middens • Chronology • Zooarchaeology • Dating Techniques • Petroglyphs

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • Arizona (State / Territory) • AUSTRALIA • Commonwealth of Australia (Country) • Queensland (State / Territory) • Australia (Continent) • Victoria (State / Territory) • New South Wales (State / Territory) • USA (Country)

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  • Documents (11)
Documents
  1. Assessing the Patterns and Variation of a Common Pecos River Style Motif (2019)
  2. Bold Line Geometric: Revisiting a Lesser-Known Rock Art Style in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas (2019)
  3. Images-in-the-Making: Process and Vivification in Pecos River Style Rock Art (2019)
  4. Kimberley Visions: Antiquity of Rock Art Style Provinces of Northern Australia (2019)
  5. Monuments to Symbolic Behaviour in the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia (2019)
  6. Murujuga Dynamics of the Data (2019)
  7. Pahranagat Patterned Bodies and Big Horn Sheep (2019)
  8. Petroglyphs in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands: Preliminary Analysis of Context, Style, and Chronology (2019)
  9. Roots and Routes of Rock Art: A Kernel Density Analysis of Newly Recorded Rock Art Sites to Understand Human Mobility in the North East Kimberley, Australia (2019)
  10. Shellfishing Transitions with Sea Level Rise across the Dampier Archipelago (2019)
  11. Time and the Landscape: Visualizations of Murujuga and Beyond. (2019)