With Beauty Around: The Canyon del Muerto Rock Art Documentation Project

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

A Navajo prayer ends: "with beauty all around, may I walk." Canyon de Chelly National Monument in the heart of Navajo country presented Larry Loendorf, then Professor at New Mexico State University, and his rock art recording crew with beauty in the alcoves, on the cliffs, and with every landscape view. Canyons de Chelly, del Muerto, Twin Trails, Black Rock, and Many Cherries revealed ancestral Puebloan images, traditional Navajo depictions, and historic scenes/inscriptions that provided an ideal setting for the team to make new discoveries and overcome challenges. We review highlights from 1999-2002, such as panoramic and enhanced photography, hidden rock art gems, flash floods, and radiocarbon dates of storage cyst mortar over various pictograph designs including the earliest ancestral Hopi butterfly hairwhorls.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23036