The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis, Part I

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis, Part I" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Rock art is enigmatic and iconic, its visual aesthetic used across academia to promote everything from book covers to merchandise, but beyond this, rock art is undervalued for the contributions it can make and the knowledge it can provide. Current rock art research is interdisciplinary, drawing methods from various fields and knowledge form multiple lines of evidence. These approaches augment and enhance rock art documentation, offer new strategies for evidence, site management, and facilitate new interpretive insights for rock art provinces around the world. With continuing, innovative, and progressive methods of analysis, documentation and study, rock art is moving into a new era of research, enabling it to not just support endeavours, but lead in them. The Rock Art Interest Group sponsored session provides a forum to share rock art research and pedagogy, highlighting and showcasing current research to promote the value of rock art to the wider academic community.