Rock Art Distribution in the Windwards in the Caribbean: A GIS Locational Perspective
Author(s): Michele Hayward; Jonathan Hanna; Michael Jessamy; Donald Smith; Michael Cinquino
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Rock art locations in the Caribbean are well known and include caves, waterways, coasts, inland rock formations, and ceremonial enclosures. Mythological (caves as centers of origin and fertility) and practical considerations (guardians of fresh water sources) have been offered as general explanations for their settings. GIS procedures offer an opportunity to explore in greater detail particular site locations, in addition to suggesting possible reasons for the observed site distributions. Our exploration of rock art settings in the Windward Islands involve comparing rock art distributions with petroglyphs and those with workstones (boulders with cupules and/or sharpening lines) to non-rock art distributions employing such environmental factors as distance from fresh water sources, elevation, and astronomic positioning, and such rock art attributes as element number and image types.
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Rock Art Distribution in the Windwards in the Caribbean: A GIS Locational Perspective. Michele Hayward, Jonathan Hanna, Michael Jessamy, Donald Smith, Michael Cinquino. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499128)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
Caribbean
Spatial Coverage
min long: -90.747; min lat: 3.25 ; max long: -48.999; max lat: 27.683 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 38831.0