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

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 II" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Rock art is enigmatic and iconic, its visual aesthetic being 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 from 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 archaeological endeavours, but lead in them. The Rock Art Interest Group- sponsored session provides a forum to share recent rock art research and pedagogy from a wide range of topics that help us to better understand and contextualise rock art, highlighting and showcasing current research to promote the value of rock art to the wider academic community.