Volcanic Tableland Rock Art: Research and Management in the Western Great Basin

Summary

The Volcanic Tableland north of Bishop, California has been the focus of significant previous research (e.g. Bettinger, Basgall, Giambastiani), which has been mobilized by proactive BLM Archaeologists (E. Levy, K. Halford, and G. Haverstock) to generate a predictive model for managing cultural sensitivity against recreational impacts. Further innovation has been the use of specialized rock art recorders (represented by Western Rock Art Research) to document the petroglyphs and petroglyphs of this important GB style province. This paper presents the results of collaborative research building on earlier research, modeling and intensive recording to present a new interpretive layer for rock art in the predictive model. It shows the importance of rock art researchers, specialists and land-managers working together to achieve a better understanding of the heritage resource.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• New Research and Emerging Scholars Working on Public Lands Administered by the Bureau of Land Management

Keywords

Spatial Coverage