Situating Northern Rio Grande Horse Petroglyphs in the Plains Biographic Tradition

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Northern Rio Grande History: Routes and Roots" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Survey in the Rio Grande Gorge of New Mexico over the past decade has revealed a robust corpus of rock art that depicts horses in the Plains Biographic tradition. Comparison of the Rio Grande Gorge horses to horses in Plains Biographic rock art of other regions and cultures may address questions of cultural affiliation, movement of people, the transmission of horses in the Plains region, and the story of encounter between Indigenous peoples and horses. This paper analyzes the variety of horse depictions from the Rio Grande Gorge and explores how they relate to the wider Plains Biographic tradition.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Northern Rio Grande History: Routes and Roots

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Abstract Id(s): 32597