The Role of Portable Rock Art during the Northern California Archaic Period
Author(s): Kelly McGuire; William Hildebrandt
Year: 2017
Summary
One of the largest and oldest portable rock art assemblages identified in North America has been documented in the upper reaches of the Sacramento River in Northern California. This fluorescence of stylistic activity, commencing as early as 6,000 years ago, appears to be a symbolic manifestation of group identity and a harbinger of the rise of social and territorial complexity in this region. In this paper we explore the linguistic, social, and ecological variables that may have given rise to this burst of symbolic expression.
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The Role of Portable Rock Art during the Northern California Archaic Period. Kelly McGuire, William Hildebrandt. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 430892)
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Keywords
General
Incised Stones
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Social Boundaries
Geographic Keywords
North America - California
Spatial Coverage
min long: -125.464; min lat: 32.101 ; max long: -114.214; max lat: 42.033 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 14431