Recent Documentation Efforts at Greybull South, Wyoming

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Greybull South (48BH92) is a rock art site located along the east bank of the Bighorn River near Greybull, Wyoming. The site was first documented in 1951 as part of the Yellowtail Reservoir survey project, but the site gained regional notoriety in 1962 when large blocks containing petroglyphs were removed from the cliff wall and subsequently transported to what is now the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody (then the Buffalo Bill Museum). Recent projects have documented the removed blocks with 3D photogrammetry and fieldwork was conducted to complete an in-depth documentation the important record of Indigenous rock art at the site. The presence of at least three different rock art traditions—Plains Ceremonial, En Toto Pecked, and Plains Biographic—demonstrates the reuse of this site within the Bighorn Basin landscape for an extended period of time and likely by different Indigenous groups. This paper summarizes the ongoing projects and presents preliminary results of the expanded iconographic inventory that will add to our understanding of rock art in the Bighorn Basin.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Interdisciplinary Approaches to Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37264.0