ARARA 2016 Paper Submissions - Deadline 15 August
Prospective
authors of papers for American Indian Rock Art Volume 43 are reminded
that the deadline for submission of papers for consideration of
publication is August 15. All presentations at the 2016 Las Cruces
conference, including Posters, are eligible for submission, subject to
peer and editorial review for final acceptance.
Papers must conform to
the current ARARA Style Guide, which is available on the ARARA website
at the link given below. The first page of the Style Guide has detailed
instructions for submitting your paper and illustrations by electronic
upload.
Questions may be addressed to Ken Hedges, Publications Chair, at ararapub...@rockart.us
Style Guide link: www.arara.org/documents/arara_style_guide.pdf 2017 ARARA Call for Nominations
ARARA Board: Call for Nominations! by Chris Gralapp, ARARA Nominating Committee Chair
The ARARA Nominating Committee is on a mission to identify great
candidates for your Board of Directors. This upcoming year, we will be
seeking members in good standing to fill the four slots for the position
of Director. We do this in odd years, and in even years we develop
slates for the Officers’ positions.
The Board of Directors conducts the business of the association by
taking up topics that arise during the year which require oversight and
decision making. This business is accomplished twice per year at
in-person Board meetings: once at the interim meeting usually in
February (travel expense covered for this meeting) and again at the
Annual Conference (you are expected to attend and so no travel is
covered for this meeting).
In addition, monthly conference calls may be convened to continue the
conversations, and to assure that ARARA business is addressed in a
timely way. Email discussion topics also happen throughout the year, so
the Directors are always in the loop and attending to the smooth running
of the association.The Details:Any ARARA member in good standing may serve as a Director of ARARA
Directors serve for a term period of two years—term to begin July 1, 2017
Duties:Participate in the Board meetings in person, via phone, and online.
Consider and vote on an interesting mix of issues and questions.
Oversee the activities of the ARARA committees
Take on the occasional special project.
Benefits: Grow your ARARA IQ, make connections, and serve our wonderful association!If you know of someone who has the makings of a good Director, please send her/ his name along to me at cgra...@gmail.com. The Nominating Committee will contact all nominees and take it from there.Thanks!
Rock Art Preservation - Calls for Political Action
URGENT: Express your support for Senate Bill 2242!
Notice from Linea Sundstrom, Chair of the Conservation and Preservation Committee
The
Conservation and Preservation Committee will be sending a letter to
Senator Sanders in support of the Save Oak Flat Act. But for our message
to have any impact, members of Congress need to hear from their own
constituents.
Please take a moment to email or call your senators in support of this bill.
Background:
After years of trying to force this [illegal]
land swap, Senators Kyl and McCain inserted it into the Defense
Authorization Act. That mischief needs to be undone, before this
anti-preservation measure provides precedent for similar takings of
public lands that contain historically significant resources, such as
rock art sites. You may have heard this referred to as Apache Leap. Yes,
it is an Apache sacred site. The AZ senators' underhanded move was an
open attack on the very concept of historic preservation on public
lands, and we need to stop it!
Bill: S. 2242-Save Oak Flat Act of 2015
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders (D-VT)
Status: Pending before Energy and Natural Resources Committee
This
measure would repeal the portion of the 2015 Defense Authorization Act
requiring the exchange of land in Arizona between the Department of
Agriculture and Resolution Copper Mining (RC). Under the terms of the
exchange, the Secretary of Agriculture must convey the previously
protected land known as Oak Flat to RC for mining operations no later
than 60 days after the publication of the final Environmental Impact
Statement. Thus, the swap will take place regardless of the findings of
the review process, even if the mine would have drastic adverse impacts
on environmental and cultural resources, including rock art sites. The
Society for American Archaeology, local tribes, and numerous other
groups strongly opposed the land exchange at the time, and will support
S. 2242.
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Leonard & Nancy Becker have contacted ARARA Online regarding the following issue.
For those who are interested, or local to the Bay Area California please take note.
Dear Friends,
We need your help to pressure the City of Berkeley to stand by the resolution they signed in January 2016; the resolution adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP). The oldest Shellmound in the Bay Area is at risk because of this development. Please read the following resolution and help us by taking a minute to call and email the representatives of the City of Berkeley and demand that they work with all the Chochenyo Ohlone people. We demand that the City of Berkeley work with multiple and diverse Chochenyo Ohlone voices to create a transparent process of UNDRIP with free and prior consent on all zoning and future development projects.A Sample Letter for your use is available or you can write a polite letter in your own words.
Corrina Gould, Chochenyo Ohlone, Co-Founder Indian People Organizing for Change Email: shellmo...@yahoo.com
Articles on the Berkeley Development Projects:
1. http://www.dailycal.org/2016/04/11/human-remains-discovered-4th-street-construction-site/
2. http://www.eastbaytimes.com/breaking-news/ci_29856087/berkeley-second-set-human-remains-found-near-spengers Please Call and Email:
Upcoming Rock Art Events
August Meeting of the Southern Nevada Rock Art Association
Date: August 22nd
Location: The REI store -- 710 S Rampart Blvd, Las Vegas
(in the Boca Park shopping center near the intersections of Rampart and Alta Drives)
Time: 6:45 to 8:30 pm.
Speaker: Pat Barker on People, Power, and Place: Native Concepts of Power
In
ethnographic times, the worldview of Native Americans in the Great
Basin was colored by the idea that the universe was animated by spirit
power (Wegeléyu in Washoe; Puha- in Northern Paiute; Pua- in Southern
Paiute). In this worldview, people believe that the universe is a living
thing, in which the nature and amount of spirit power among
participants determines everything. Spirit power varies through time and
across space in ways that cause events, or allows objects, individuals
or groups to do things. The impact of spirit power on places, people,
objects, or events provides the basis for understanding the nature and
distribution of places important to people in the Great Basin.
Understanding the idea of spirit power gives us insights into the nature
and distribution of rock art across the Great Basin.
Pat
Barker was born in Reno and grew up in Southern California. He earned a
Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1982 from the University of California,
Riverside. Since 1986 he worked as an archaeologist for the Bureau of
Land Management and since 1988 was the lead archaeologist for the BLM
Nevada State Office. Dr. Barker retired from the BLM in 2006. His
archaeological research experience includes work in Southern California,
the Mojave Desert, Eastern California and the Great Basin and his
ethnographic experience includes work in Samoa, Southern California, and
the Great Basin. Dr. Barker’s long-term archaeological interests in the
Great Basin include prehistoric land management; fire and human
ecology; political evolution, prehistoric sandals and other textiles;
and prehistoric rock art. He is a Research Associate in Anthropology at
the Nevada State Museum and at UC Davis. Dr. Barker is a past President
of the Board of Directors of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation and is the
current President of the Board of Directors of the Great Basin
Anthropology Association. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in
Anthropology at UNR.
For more complete information about Pat Barker and his presentation, please visit the SNRAA Website at http://snraa.org/snraa.org/EVENTS.html
Upcoming SNRAA Meetings:
September 26 —
Speaker: Don Christensen on Rock Art and Cultural Transformation on Cedar Mesa, Utah
October 24 — Speaker: Nina Bowen
November 28 — Speaker: TBA
December — No meeting
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Rock Art Foundation - Meyers Spring Ranch Tour
Labor Day Weekend -- Saturday, September 3, 2016
Meyers
Spring, a major source of water in dry west Texas, has been a center
for human activity for thousands of years. At the spring site ancient
people left Pecos River style rock art. Native American artists later
recorded the European contact with the indigenous people atop the older
paintings. Still later the Seminole Scouts and local ranchers left
their marks.
This site was added to the National Register of Historic
Places in 1972 and today is privately owned. The Rock Art Foundation,
in stewardship with the landowner, invites you for a tour to this very
important rock art and historic site.
For more details and registration please visit: http://www.rockart.org/announcements/20160801.cfm
Conferences & Symposiums
URARA Symposium
The
Utah Rock Art Research Association's annual symposium in Delta, Utah from September 30 to October 3, 2016. Further
details can be found here: http://www.utahrockart.org/symposium
Fundraisers
Rock Art Foundation Rendezvous 23 Fundraiser When: October 14 – 16, 2016, at the Full Moon Where: White Shaman Preserve Cost: $70 per person (no charge for children 12 and under with parents) Easy prepayment avaliable for the Rendezvous by visiting our secure web site More Information: http://www.rockart.org/tours_events/events.cfm The 2016 Rendezvous will be held at the Oct 14 – 16
and we will offer as many tours as possible over the weekend. RAF
tours offered for this year’s gathering will be included and there will
not be an extra charge. RAF tours that are planned are: White Shaman,
Meyers Springs, Bonfire Shelter, Eagle Cave, Painted Shelter and Curly
Tail Panther (this list has not been finalized and may change).
There will be 3 additional tours offered by Seminole Canyon State Park (Fate Bell, Upper Canyon and Presa Canyon) during the Rendezvous weekend – these tours are an additional charge paid to the Park and are not covered in the Rendezvous fee.
If you want to see rock art – mark your calendar for Rendezvous 23.
Camping
will be available at the White Shaman Preserve. Coffee and sweet rolls
will be served Saturday and Sunday mornings with a BBQ dinner on
Saturday night. All the details have not been finalized - an additional
e-mail with complete tour and event information will be provided as we
get closer.
Please remember to bring raffle items for the Saturday evening raffle – that’s a really good way to help the RAF.
Calls for Papers & Presentations
SAA Rock
Art Interest Group & ARARA Conservation sponsored Call for
Presenters and Abstracts
For: The 82nd Annual SAA Meeting
(Society for American Archeology) Annual meeting details here
Chairs: Mavis Greer,
Evelyn Billo, and Robert Mark When: March 29 - April 2, 2017 Where: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Participants must be 2017 members of the Society for American Archeology.
Abstract Submissions Due: August 31, 2016 [title & abstract] to the chairs (see above)
Abstract requirements:
• Individuals may
only be the senior author on one presentation
• No abstract may list more than
five authors
• Maximum word count of 200
Note: Due date is before the the online
registration of presentations deadline on
September 8, 2016 so that the the final list and
order of symposium participants
can be determined.
Rock Art Symposium Section Topic: Contemporary
Issues in Rock Art Conservation and Preservation
Topic Summary:
Conservation
and preservation of rock art is a goal of most rock art focused organizations as
well as most government agencies tasked with protecting archaeological sites on
lands they manage.
The way these goals are accomplished varies throughout the
world. Sharing information regarding steps taken to reach these goals,
successes or failures of the steps involved, and lessons learned in the
process
can only lead to improved understanding of conservation activities and
preservation results.
Although conservation projects are often community
initiatives spearheaded by an organized
group or a government agency,
individuals can also be the driving force behind site protection, and this session
provides a forum to showcase projects of any size, at any location, using a
variety of methods, and resulting in any level of success. The symposium seeks to
provide an overview of contemporary actions being employed on behalf of rock
art site protection.
The chairs
invite you to participate
If you have an interest in presenting in this
session, please email one or all of us at:
ma...@greerservices.com,
ebi...@aol.com, or rm...@infomagic.net
Publications
Rock Art of Lake Titicaca Region (Peru and Bolivia) published by SIARB:
The Bolivian Rock Art Research Society (SIARB) has just published Vol. 8 of its series Contribuciones, a
voluminous book (358 pages, more than 600 illustrations including 33 color plates) on rock art of Lake
Titicaca region (Peru and Bolivia), edited by Matthias Strecker, with contributions by researchers from
Bolivia (Freddy Taboada, J. M. López Bejarano), Peru (Adán Umire), USA (Elizabeth Arkush,
Elizabeth Klarich, Arik
Ohnstad), Austria (Rainer Hostnig) and Germany (M. Strecker). The text is in
Spanish with English summaries. The book makes ample use of
DStretch and includes some photos
by Robert Mark.
Price (including mailing to Europe or the USA) is $US 40.
For information or copies please contact: strecke...@gmail.com
Technology
Labstretch
iDStretch
Now
avaliable for Ipad and Iphone! A mobile version of DStretch. Use your
iPhone or iPad in the field
to see faint or invisible rock art images.
iDStretch is simple to use, fast, and you can save the enhancements.
It
does not need wifi or phone connection to work.
See the web page for
more information: http://www.dstretch.com/iDStretch/index.html
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