A Keelboat Petroglyph in the Northern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming

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.

Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin is one of the areas where Dr. Larry Loendorf has worked for years. This paper talks about a new rock art site in north-central portion of the Big Horn Basin. In 2015 two ranch women Lynette Kelley Cook and Phyllis Preator contacted the author about rock art in the northern Bighorn Basin, particularly any boat petroglyphs. They took the author to the recently discovered site in early 2016. This is the only known petroglyph that depicts a Rocky Mountain Fur Trade keelboat. The author first published this discovery in the 2018 issue of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal. This paper discusses the discovery of the site, background of other boat drawings in the Upper Missouri River area, the early use of keelboats, and the rock art at the site.

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): 23004