Semiotics for Rock Art

Summary

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

Semiotics applied to rock art is useful when it is part of an archaeological project because semiotics contributes a framework of principles of communication, methodology and definitive vocabulary from linguistics for analyzing imagery in a substantive manner. Using these tools from the field of semiotics, three archaeological projects (Hovenweep, PARP, Bandelier Inventory Survey) are revisited to demonstrate how fragments of past human dynamics can contribute more insights to answering research questions.

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 II

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Abstract Id(s): 52049