Collaborative Research at the Paint Rock Site

Summary

This is an abstract from the "What’s Going on in Texas? Current Topics in Texas Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Paint Rock Project is a Native American collaborative research project that centers on the conservation of Native American heritage and culture facilitated by the Campbell Family, tribal elders, and researchers from Abilene Christian University and the Edwards Plateau Archaeological Research Group. Situated within the Middle Colorado River Valley of west-central Texas, the Paint Rock site contains pre- and post- contact period rock art and archeological deposits spanning over 2,000 years of Native American and colonial history. Research at the site involves the sharing and preservation of traditional cultural knowledge and history through workshops on traditional lifeways and indigenous languages, participation in ritual practices, as well as the interpretation of rock art and archaeological investigation. The goal of the project is to create and maintain a space for the exchange and preservation of indigenous epistemologies. This presentation will focus on the interpretive aspects of some of the rock art panels and the current interpretive framework on the associated archeological deposits.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• What’s Going on in Texas? Current Topics in Texas Archaeology

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Abstract Id(s): 52260