Linking Rock Art and Archaeology: A Case Study from the Southwestern Sierra Nevada Foothills

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis, Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Diverse rock art has been recorded at archaeological sites in Yokohl Valley, Tulare County, California. A confidential private development was proposed for the Yokohl Valley, serving as the impetus for the identification and recordation of rock art that is associated with archaeological deposits from prehistoric to ethnohistoric times. Here we review the various kinds and motifs of rock art recorded in Yokohl Valley, drawing attention to commonalities with neighboring areas, and to especially unique pictographs and petroglyphs. At one particular village site, some petroglyphs match bedrock mortar arrangements and appear to line up with historical lore associated with the Foothill Yokuts that inhabited the area.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis, Part I

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Abstract Id(s): 52031