The Wupatki Petroglyph Project

Summary

The Museum of Northern Arizona and National Park Service, Flagstaff Area National Monuments conducted a cooperative baseline documentation and condition assessment of four sites in Wupatki National Monument 2014-2017: Crack-in-Rock (WS831), Middle Mesa (WS833), Horseshoe Mesa (WS834), and WS835. The fieldwork component of the project comprised high resolution film and digital photography of 374 petroglyph panels and 4,004 elements, completion of narrative and tabular data collection forms for all panels and elements, and evaluation of the geomorphological settings of the petroglyphs. Additionally, selected panels were documented with scaled drawings, gigapixel panoramas, timelapse digital photography and video. The project significantly expanded the number of recorded panels and elements, identified differences in the types of elements represented at each site, re-evaluated previous claims for solar imaging calendars, and revealed previously unknown or under-reported Archaic and Historic occupations of the sites.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 20096