Polly - Rock Art - And Understanding Chaco

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Role of Rock Art in Cultural Understanding: A Symposium in Honor of Polly Schaafsma" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Polly's long and productive anthropological career has been characterized by her use of art as a means to better interpret the social and organizational characteristics of several prehistoric and historic societies in the American Southwest. Her research has ranged geographically from the northern Southwest to northern Mexico and temporally from the Archaic to the early Historic. One of the many subjects she has dealt with in her work - using rock art to better define Chacoan political and social organization - is critical in that most archaeologists never cite rock art in their interpretive schemes for Chaco. Polly's conclusions are summarized and their relevance for better understanding Chaco is discussed.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Role of Rock Art in Cultural Understanding: A Symposium in Honor of Polly Schaafsma   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 22863