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 • Landscape Archaeology • Archaic • Digital Archaeology: GIS • Dating Techniques • Survey • Woodland • Mississippian • Neolithic

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • USA (Country) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Delaware (State / Territory) • Georgia (State / Territory) • Mississippi (State / Territory) • Tennessee (State / Territory) • North Carolina (State / Territory) • Kentucky (State / Territory)

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  • Documents (13)
Documents
  1. Assessing the Variability and Chronology of Red Linear Style Pictographs of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas: Final Results (2023)
  2. The Buffalo Creek Site: Animal and Human Rock Art Diversity in Northern Wyoming (2023)
  3. Elk Hooves and Sharpening Grooves: Evaluating the Relationship between Three Rock Art Types on the Great Plains (2023)
  4. Hawaiian Petroglyphs and Pictographs: Patterns and Interpretations from Hawai’i, Maui, Moloka’i, O’ahu, and Kaua’i (2023)
  5. Landscape-Based Approaches and Cross-Cultural Exchange: Working toward an Inclusive Model of Study in Fluteplayer Rock Art Research (2023)
  6. The Many Meanings and Uses of Tomo-Kahni Rock Art (2023)
  7. New Research into Environmental Contexts of Southeastern Rock Imageries (2023)
  8. Object-Based Image Analysis for Classifying Precontact Native American Mud Glyphs by Production Technique (2023)
  9. Ozark Imagery: Documenting Rock Art in the Arkansas Highlands (2023)
  10. Recent Documentation Efforts at Greybull South, Wyoming (2023)
  11. A Rock Art Depiction of a Desert Kite Hunting Drive Trap (2023)
  12. Rock Art in Northern Sonora between Stones and Pigments: Preliminary Archaeometric Analysis (2023)
  13. Shamanic Images in Rock Art in Siberia: Global Theory and Regional Peculiarities (2023)