ARARA 2016 Conference Feedback
A reminder that your comments, suggestions, or questions about the presentations, the presentation schedule, or the "auditorium" at this year's conference are welcome. Please send them to the Program Chair, Lou Hillman, at ARARA.P...@gmail.com.
(Comments, suggestions, or questions about other parts of the conference
should be directed to the appropriate Chair.)
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
July Meeting of the Southern Nevada Rock Art Association
Date: July 25th
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: Sandy Rogers author of The Euro-American ‘Discovery’ of the Coso Rock Art
The Coso Rock Art District National Historic Landmark is the most extensive rock art field in the western hemisphere. It encompasses 36,000 acres within the north range of the Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, California. The lands were withdrawn for use by the Navy in 1943, at the height of World War II, and the Navy continues management of the area. Since the site lies within an active military test range, the rock art has been protected from vandalism. Two questions are often asked: (1) Was the existence of the rock art known prior to the land withdrawal? (2) Did knowledge of the rock art affect the withdrawal decision? This lecture will trace the “discovery” of the Coso rock art site in the mid-nineteenth century and answer the above questions. It is a fascinating story involving miners, explorers, photographers, and archaeologists. The talk will include a portfolio of Coso rock art images, many from sites that are not open to the public.
Lecturer Alexander (Sandy) Rogers, is an archaeologist and Archaeology Curator at the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, California. His research interests are obsidian hydration dating, rock art, and Great Basin hunter-gatherers, and he has published on all three topics. He is currently Vice President of the American Rock Art Research Association, and on the Board of the Great Basin Anthropological Association.
For more complete information about Sandy and his presentation, please visit the SNRAA Website at http://snraa.org/snraa.org/EVENTS.html
Upcoming SNRAA Meetings:
August 22 — Speaker: Pat Barker on Native Concepts of Power
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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Survey of Wupatki Rock Art
On display at the Museum of Northern Arizona Flagstaff, AZ ( https://musnaz.org )
It took nearly 85 years for archaeologists to figure it out, but an
inscribed cliff face in Arizona‘s Wupatki
National Monument turns out to be a kind of 800-year-old timepiece, whose only moving
parts are the
orbit of the Earth and the wheeling of the sun through the sky. First recorded in 1931 by anthropologist
Harold
Colton, the petroglyphs found along a landform known as
Horseshoe Mesa remained poorly
understood for much of the 20th century.
“The original 1931 records that Harold Colton created
consisted
of a 3-by-5 index card with one or two sentences ‘describing’
the site,” said David Purcell, a supervisory
archaeologist at the Museum of Northern Arizona who’s leading a new re-investigation of the site.
For more information and photos: http://bit.ly/1N4lHp4 (Western Digs)
Conferences & Symposiums
Pecos Conference for 2016
When: August 4-7th 2016
Where: Alpine, AZ
This is an outdoor archaeological
conference founded in 1927 and offers short talks on current research in
all phases of archaeology, INCLUDING rock art.
Each August, archaeologists gather under open skies somewhere in the southwestern United States or northwestern Mexico. They set up a large tent for shade, and then spend three or more days together discussing recent research, problems of the field, and the challenges of the profession. In recent years, Native Americans, avocational archaeologists, the general public and media organizations have come to speak with the archaeologists. These individuals and groups play an increasingly important role, as participants and as audience, helping professional archaeologists celebrate archaeological research and to mark cultural continuity.
For more information & registration details: http://pecosconference.com/
Sharon Urban would like all to know that she will be there!
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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
From The 36th Annual Utah Rock Art Research Association Symposium The Symposium Committee announces a call for proposals for presentations for the Utah Rock Art Research Association’s 36th Annual Symposium, held from September 30 – October 3, 2016 Held at the Civic Center, 305 West Main Street, Delta, Utah. Located in the eastern Great Basin.Proposal Guidelines • Must have a Title • Contain an Abstract Abstracts • should not be more than 200 words. • will be reviewed for suitability, balance of points-of-view, and to ensure that the number of papers does not exceed the time available for presentations. Preference will be given to presentations that relate to Utah rock art, with a particular interest in the rock art of the Great Basin.Presentation Guidelines • Presentations will be allowed a maximum of 30 minutes • Site reports a maximum of 20 minutes. • All presentations must be in Power Point.Deadline for Proposal Submission: August 1st 2016 The Presentations committee asks that everyone submitting a proposal honor the deadline so we can finalize the program in a timely manner.Accepted presenters will receive • a $100 Honorarium to help with expenses, • Free Symposium registration, • Will be guests of URARA at the Saturday night banquet.Submission Information Please send ALL abstracts to the attention of David Sucec, Presentations Coordinator Email: to bcspr...@xmission.com (preferred) Mail: David Sucec, Presentations Coordinator
832 Sego Avenue
Salt Lake City UT 84102
Attn: URARA 2016 Proposal Submission Committee
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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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