Interdisciplinary Approaches to Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Current rock art research is interdisciplinary, drawing methods from various fields and knowledge from multiple lines of evidence. These approaches augment and enhance rock art documentation, offer new strategies for effective site management, and facilitate new interpretive insights for rock art provinces around the world. This Rock Art Interest Group–sponsored session provides a forum to share recent rock art research from a wide range of topics that help us to better understand and contextualize rock art, including geochemical analyses, iconographic comparisons, photogrammetric and imaging techniques, Indigenous knowledge, spatial analysis, and radiocarbon dating. The presentations in this symposium discuss rock art in California, Hawaii, Texas, the American Southwest, the Great Plains, the Eastern Woodlands, Mexico, Israel, and Siberia.

Other Keywords
Iconography and Art: Rock Art • Iconography and epigraphy • Archaic • Ancestral Pueblo • Landscape Archaeology • Caves and Rockshelters • Digital Archaeology: GIS • Digital Archaeology: Photogrammetry • Woodland • Stratigraphy

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • USA (Country) • Arizona (State / Territory) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Baja California (State / Territory)

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-23 of 23)

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Documents
  1. 3D Documentation of a Basketmaker Petroglyph Panel in Southeastern Utah (2024)
  2. Analyzing Images from the Jebel Qara Environment: Preserving Painted Rock Art in the Cave Shelters of Southern Arabia (2024)
  3. The Art and Light of Paint Rock, Texas (2024)
  4. Assessing the Variability and Chronology of Red Linear Style Pictographs of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas: Final Results (2023)
  5. Beyond the Stereotype: Working toward a Landscape-Based Model of Study and Cross-Cultural Exchange of Fluteplayer Rock Art Imagery in Chaco Canyon (2024)
  6. Brushstrokes of the Past: Unraveling Pecos River Style Murals with Harris Matrix Composer (2024)
  7. The Buffalo Creek Site: Animal and Human Rock Art Diversity in Northern Wyoming (2023)
  8. Defining the Spatial Structure of Rock Art in 12th Unnamed Cave, Tennessee, through 3D Modeling and GIS (2024)
  9. Elk Hooves and Sharpening Grooves: Evaluating the Relationship between Three Rock Art Types on the Great Plains (2023)
  10. Follow the Pictorial Path: Assessing Rock Imagery and Human Movement at Chaco Canyon (2024)
  11. Hawaiian Petroglyphs and Pictographs: Patterns and Interpretations from Hawai’i, Maui, Moloka’i, O’ahu, and Kaua’i (2023)
  12. Landscape-Based Approaches and Cross-Cultural Exchange: Working toward an Inclusive Model of Study in Fluteplayer Rock Art Research (2023)
  13. The Many Meanings and Uses of Tomo-Kahni Rock Art (2023)
  14. New Research into Environmental Contexts of Southeastern Rock Imageries (2023)
  15. Object-Based Image Analysis for Classifying Precontact Native American Mud Glyphs by Production Technique (2023)
  16. Ozark Imagery: Documenting Rock Art in the Arkansas Highlands (2023)
  17. Recent Documentation Efforts at Greybull South, Wyoming (2023)
  18. A Rock Art Depiction of a Desert Kite Hunting Drive Trap (2023)
  19. Rock Art Distribution in the Windwards in the Caribbean: A GIS Locational Perspective (2024)
  20. Rock Art in Northern Sonora between Stones and Pigments: Preliminary Archaeometric Analysis (2023)
  21. Shamanic Images in Rock Art in Siberia: Global Theory and Regional Peculiarities (2023)
  22. Water, Creation, and Celestial Phenomena at La Casa de las Golondrinas, Guatemala (2024)
  23. Weeksville Pictographs, Western Montana: The Importance of Location (2024)