ARARA Membership
Please don’t
forget to renew your Annual Membership. The next Issue of La Pintura goes to press soon!
2017 New ARARA Officers (Welcome)
Please welcome the following hard working ARARA members.
Ann Brierty as ARARA Vice President
When Sandy Rogers unexpectedly resigned, Ann agreed to serve as VP for the remainder of the current term, which expires on June 30, 2018. Ann’s current position as at-large Board member will be filled in the upcoming election.
Jan Gorski as Membership Coordinator.
Jan stepped up and volunteered in Las Cruces; she and Donna Yoder are working closely to ensure a smooth transition.
ARARA Annual Conference - Redmond Oregon [June 1-5th 2017]
New Registration & Field Trip sign-up Process
ARARA is trying a new approach to conference registration and field trip sign-up this year
1. You will register for the conference individually—there is no more family registration
2. Once you have received confirmation of your conference registration, you will directly register yourself for field trips.
Details about how the registration process will work are given in a La Pintura article, so please read it closely.
Appropriate links will also be given be on the ARARA homepage.
Conference Registration will open on March 10th 2017
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The Board studied conference finances for the recent past and realized that registration fees, which have not changed in a number of years, were out of alignment. Individual registration fees were subsidizing the costs of family members. This did not seem fair. A seat is a seat at the conference and each attendee incurs the same amount of costs to ARARA, regardless of registration category.
Accordingly, the Board set individual member registration at $75 and raised non-member registration to $115.
In keeping with ARARA’s support of students and our education mission, student registration fees were eliminated.
Individual Member registration: $ 75
Individual Non-Member Registration: $ 115
Student Fees have been eliminated.
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Education Outreach - Volunteers Needed!
An educational outreach event will occur in conjunction with the 2017 ARARA annual conference. The educational event will take place Thursday, June 1st from 1:00-2:30 at Lava Ridge Elementary School in Bend, Oregon (15 miles from Redmond). We will be enlightening 100 third grade students about the importance of respecting and preserving rock art.
Our plan is to gather the students in one room for a PowerPoint presentation about rock art. Then, along with the classroom teachers, our volunteers will go into individual classrooms for one or two hands-on activities. With the knowledge gained from our presentation and related activities, the students will learn to appreciate rock art. Clearly, when students learn to value rock art, they also learn to protect and preserve it – and that is our goal. We also encourage the students to pass on their new-found knowledge to their parents and friends.
To accomplish this outreach, we need volunteers! We need two volunteers in each of the four classrooms to lead the activities; that means eight volunteers. We will supply all the materials and instructions for the activities -- all you need to provide is your passion for rock art and a willingness to share your enthusiasm with third grade children. If you would like to help with this worthwhile endeavor, please contact Eileen Gose at goseranch (at) gmail (dot) com or (541) 516 - 6405
The
January 2017 ARARAOnline Issue
Your January
Issue did not go missing! The issue recently
released was a Jan/Feb issue.
Due to a computer failure, I was left with a tablet for several
weeks and unable to produce the Online edition properly.
The
December 2016 ARARAOnline Issue
The Missing link?
In our December
issue there were several links that were improperly formatted and
thus did not render when published. You will find only the broken links with
their heading and a short description reprinted in the section
below. Apologies for the
inconvenience.
December
2016 Issue – Corrected Links
Rock Art
Preservation - Raising Awareness, and new Scientific Discoveries
Development
of new techniques makes it possible to date Australian Aboriginal
rock art
(This research has been hailed as
the most significant rock art and dating paper to have been produced
in Australia for over 25 years.)
A new technique, developed at ANSTO’s Centre for Accelerator Science,
has made it possible to produce some of the first reliable
radiocarbon dates for Australian rock art in a study just published
online in The Journal of Archaeological Science Reports.
[ANSTO - Australian Nuclear Science and Technology
Organisation]
News Article:
http://www.ansto.gov.au/AboutANSTO/MediaCentre/News/ACS112993
and http://phys.org/news/2016-12-techniques-date-australian-aboriginal-art.html
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Drone
captures unpublished images of the geoglyphs of Ariquilda in northern
Chile
Ariquilda in northern Chile is not only an important
rock art site within the Atacama desert, but also features impressive
geoglyphs. A team from Iquique From the Air went to the
area to record several shots that were presented in a video of 2 and
a half minutes.
Here are some drone views [videos] of the geoglyphs:
http://www.soychile.cl/…/Drone-capta-ineditas-imagenes-de-l…
[VIDEO] Drone
capta inéditas imágenes de los geoglifos de Ariquilda en el norte de
Chile 19.12.2016 Un
equipo de Iquique Desde el Aire se dirigió a la zona para registrar
diversas tomas que fueron presentadas en un video de
2 minutos y medio.
http://www.soychile.cl/Iquique/Sociedad/2016/12/19/436256/Drone-capta-ineditas-imagenes-de-los-geoglifos-de-Ariquilda-en-el-norte-de-Chile.aspx
More on the geoglyphs and rock art of the area:
Arte rupestre
de Ariquilda: Análisis descriptivo de un sitio con geoglifos y su
vinculación con la prehistoria regional. (53pp.)
http://www.chungara.cl/Vols/1987/Vol18/Arte_rupestre_de_Ariquilda.pdf
The Geoglyphs
of the Atacama Desert: A Bond of Landscape and Mobility by Marika
Labash
https://cola.unh.edu/sites/cola.unh.edu/files/student-journals/spectrumFall2012_10-9-12_Labash.pdf
Bonus addition:
Interpreting a
Digitally Restored Petroglyph Panel near Chiza, Región de Tarapacá,
northern Chile by Maarten van Hoek
TRACCE Rock Art
Bulletin Rupestre net INDEX: 398
(Oct 2015)
http://www.rupestre.net/tracce/?p=7655
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Chongoni Rock Art Of Malawi
Batwa, Chewa, and other peoples left behind
more than 100 rock art sites in the Chongoni area spanning thousands
of years. For a very short description of the Chongoni
World Heritage rock art site in Malawi have a look here:
http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/chongoni-rock-art-of-malawi.html
For more info, stunning photos, and a
downloadable pdf booklet
Malawi Guide: http://africanrockart.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Malawi-Guide-booklet.pdf
Other Guides: http://africanrockart.org/tara-publications/booklets/
Editorial
Change
Last year
just prior to the ARARA annual conference the long time editor of
ARARAOnline, Carol Garner, did a planned step down as editor so that
she would have time to relax and pursue some personal goals. She immediately took a
well-deserved vacation with her spouse. As current editor I have a healthy respect of the many
duties she handled over the years in regards to ARARAOnline and wish
her well in her future endeavors.
It was at
this time you began to see some changes in the format and content of
the Online editions. In
the coming months there will be some new changes and “tweaks” as
things are tried out and tested. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome. (I can be reached via araraonline (at) googlegroups (dot) com )
At the time
of the changeover I did not do a formal introduction in the Online
edition, nor in any subsequent edition. I wasn’t comfortable with making an issue of it,
as the Online edition is for informing you - our readers - of current
information, events, and discoveries in the world of Rock Art. However several members have
written and asked who I am - so there is an obvious need beyond my
information being available on the website and in the issues of La
Pintura. So since this
is not an issue per se but an editorial bulletin, I believe it is time to bid our former editor a fond
farewell and take a moment to introduce myself.
So without (much) ado..
My name is
Tania Ryan. I live in
California and I’m a graduate of CSU. I hold degrees in
Anthropology and History, and I also have a minor in Gallery and
Museum Management. My career
isn’t currently in Anthropology right now, but I am delighted to be
able to bring you ARARAOnline and to work closely with the rest of
the wonderful people that work so hard at ARARA.org to make it a
success.
List
Maintenance
Over
the next several months I will be doing maintenance on the ARARAOnline
membership list. For most
of you this will merely mean you will be re-added as I update your
membership. So please do
not be alarmed if you get a new “Welcome
to ARARA Online” notice. For others you may receive a request for a
little information from me. Do not worry it’ll be brief! With just under eight hundred
members there
is a lot of work to accomplish.
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