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2017
ARARA Membership Renewal
Don't forget to renew your annual membership!
Rock
Art Preservation - Raising Awareness, and new Scientific Discoveries
Development
of new techniques makes it possible to date Australian Aboriginal
rock art (06 Dec)
(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/AboutANS…/MediaCentre/News/ACS112993
Scientific
Paper:
Radiocarbon
age constraints for a Pleistocene–Holocene transition rock art style:
The Northern Running Figures of the East Alligator River
region, western Arnhem Land, Australia
Journal of Archaeological
Science: Reports
Volume 11, February 2017,
Pages 80–89
Tristen Jonesa, Vladimir A
Levchenkob, Penelope L.
Kingc, Ulrike
Troitzschc, Daryl Wesleya, A Alan Williamsb, Alfred Nayingulld
Highlights
• Nine radiocarbon age determinations for a regional
rock art style in Australia are reported.
• The radiocarbon determinations provide age
constraints for Pleistocene and early Holocene rock art.
• The radiocarbon ages are produced from extracting
calcium oxalate contained within mineral crusts.
• A novel chemical pre-treatment separation
technique for the radiocarbon dating method is employed.
Abstract:
In this article we present
nine radiocarbon age determinations producing a minimum age and a minimum
age range for a regionally distinct rock art style known as the
Northern Running Figures from Red Lily Lagoon, western Arnhem Land
Australia. These radiocarbon determinations provide age constraints
for both Pleistocene and early Holocene rock art in western Arnhem
Land. The radiocarbon age determinations are produced from extracting
calcium oxalate contained within mineral crusts associated with the
rock art. Significantly this study employs a novel separation
technique, designed to effectively isolate the oxalate compounds from
the mineral crust sample using chemical pre-treatment, and
demonstrates significant time offsets between radiocarbon age
determinations for the calcium oxalates and other carbon inclusions
contained within mineral crusts.
Keywords: Rock
art; Radiocarbon dating; Early Holocene; Calcium oxalate minerals
For the entire Journal of
Archaeological Science article please visit:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X16304059
Published
Online: 29 Nov 2016
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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…
More on the geoglyphs and rock art of the area:
http://www.chungara.cl/…/Vol…/Arte_rupestre_de_Ariquilda.pdf
https://cola.unh.edu/…/…/spectrumFall2012_10-9-12_Labash.pdf
http://www.rupestreweb.info/ariquilda.html
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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 the pdf booklet:
http://africanrockart.org/…/2014/01/Malawi-Guide-booklet.pdf
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Saudi behind rare ancient rock art show: ‘Our heritage honored
woman’
A Saudi social activist, who
recently capped off a five-year journey documenting ancient rock art
with a focus on women in a book and exhibition, says the images she
photographed showed prehistoric women in her home country far more “dignified”.
By Dina al-Shibeeb
Al Arabiya English Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Article
and photos:
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2016/11/29/Saudi-behind-rare-ancient-rock-art-exhibition-Our-heritage-honored-woman-.html
To see more of Ajroush's
work, please see her website: http://www.madeha-alajroush.com/
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Standing
Rock North Dakota Protests and the impact for Native American Culture
– Update
The Standing Rock Protest
still continues along with the DAPL continuance, and there is a
humanitarian need for supplies at the winter camp. For those interested please see the supply list
provided by the Standing Rock Tribe at their website.
Rock
Art Events
January Meeting of the Southern
Nevada Rock Art Association
Date: January 23rd
2017
Location: The REI store -- 710 S Rampart Blvd, Las Vegas
89145
(in the
Boca Park shopping center near the intersections of Rampart and Alta
Drives)
Time: 6:45 to 8:30 pm.
Speaker: John Pitts speaking on
“When Lightning Strikes
Twice: Correlating Lightning Strikes & Rock Art Images"
Lightning strikes are one of the most visual elements found in
nature and it is not surprising that Native Americans have been
captivated for eons by the power of lightning. Evidence of that is
seen in the frequent depictions of lightning in rock art images, as
well as the role lightning plays in many of the stories of those
ancient cultures. Mr. Pitts has studied the phenomenon of lightning
bolt tracks on rock/cliff surfaces, called rock fulgurites, for
years. His research has raised a number of questions pertaining to
the frequency of those strikes, the dating of them, and the possible
connection to the associated rock art. Since little has been
established scientifically in relation to lightning bolt strikes to
date, the field is wide open. Mr. Pitts will present certain theories
concerning the relationship between the rock fulgurites and rock art
imagery portraying nature and human survival.
For more complete
information, please visit the SNRAA Website at http://snraa.org/snraa.org/EVENTS.html
Upcoming SNRAA Meetings:
December — No meeting
January 23rd — John Pitts “When
Lightning Strikes Twice: Correlating Lightning Strikes & Rock Art
Images ”
February 27th —
Aaron Wright “The Painted Rock Petroglyph Site
Along the Lower Gila
River in Southwestern Arizona”
March 27th
— Troy Scotter “Utah Rock Art Styles”
April 24th — Jerry Dickey “TBA”
May —
“TBA”
Conferences
& Symposiums
2017 ARARA
Annual Conference
When: June 1st
to 5th 2017
Where:
The Lodge at Eagle Crest
Redmond, Oregon
The Conference Team:
Local Arrangements: Jim Keyser
Conference Coordinator: Monica Wadsworth-Seibel
Program Chair: Louis Hillman
For updates and further information: http://www.arara.org/conference.html
Plans are underway for the
ARARA 2017 Annual Conference to be held June 1–5. In case you haven't
heard, the meetings will be in Redmond, Oregon. Redmond is just north
of Bend, which is between the Williamette and Ochoco National Forests
and is graced with the lovely Deschutes River. Jim Keyser is the area
Chair, and he and his team have already met with many locals to plan
for field trips.
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British Rock
Art Group (BRAG) 2017 Conference - 27-28th May 2017 Anglesey (Wales)
The 2016
conference will be held at the Oriel Ynys Môn Musuem and Arts Center
in Wales.
There will also be a fieldtrip in the 28th. Word is it will be quite
amazing.
Venue: Oriel
Ynys Môn in Rhosmeirch, Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales LL77 7TQ
(Oriel
Ynys Môn is a museum and arts center. A two-part center, the History
Gallery
provides
an insight into the island's culture, history and
environment.)
Organizers: Aron Mazel aron....@newcastle.ac.co.uk
Dr.
George Nash georg...@bristol.ac.uk
There is no url for conference registration at this time.
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Second
Annual Peruvian Rock Art Conference in Cusco in 2017
When: August 14th to 18th 2017
Where: Cusco Peru
For
updates and further information: https://sites.google.com/view/2raec-cusco/p%C3%A1gina-principal?authuser=0 (Has Video!)
The Peruvian of Rock Art
Association (APAR) has the honor of inviting rock art researchers of
Peru and the world to the Second International Conference on Rock Art
and Ethnography to be held in the city of Cusco, from August 14 to
18, 2017.
We consider that this is a
very important event to understand the native forms of seeing the
so-called "rock art" of the world, so we emphasize the
invitation to native savants and indigenous researchers in
non-Western traditional cognition related to sites with Rock art and
sacred places.
FRAO member Peruvian Rock Art
Association (APAR) will host the Second International Rock Art and
Ethnography Conference in the third week of August 2017. This event
follows the first conference of its type carried out in the city of
Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2014, where the importance and scope of the
ethnography for the rock art research were discussed, with emphasis
in the Andes and Amazonia.
Following this trend, the
Peruvian Rock Art Association is stressing rock art research
considering the native notions of material recognition, using
primarily the terms quilcas, t’oqos or ushcus, that identify, not
only all the types of graphic forms in the Andes but the so-called
“cupules”. These cultural expressions are present in the whole Andes
being used since the most remote times until the Inka epoch, even yet
to actual present times. The revival of indigenous terminology to
understand the past, with either the ethnography, ethnology,
toponomy, or anthropology, helps to the reincorporation the ancient
graphic forms, as the “rock art”, to the actual sense of social
context with which it is historically linked.
In a country with a millennial cultural history,
the quilcas or rock art has an relevant place in the indigenous
customs that is important to value in these times, always keeping
scientific, academic and social perspectives. This is possible in
Peru as in the whole Andes and Amazonia; and is possible in many
places in the world with very ancient, extant and current cultural
traditions.
Following these reasons the Peruvian Rock Art
Association (APAR) invites all native savants, indigenous
researchers, academics in traditional cognition; professional
archaeologists and quilcas or rock art specialists of the world to
participate in this Second International Rock Art and Ethnography
Conference to be hosted in the city of Cusco in August 2017. We are
sure that the participation of all these researchers will bring new
knowledge and will help to change the paradigms of rock art research.
Sessions
This event is planned to
include five days of conferences, presentations and discussions.
For this, five sessions were
programmed, according to the following topics:
1. Ethnographic evidence of rock art
production around the world.
2. Research in ethnographic rock art
around the world.
3. Rock art sites as sacral spaces.
4. Ceremonial use of rock art sites, past
and present.
5. Traditional interpretations of rock
art sites.
(Note
from ARARA Online Editor:
There
is no apparent official call for papers for this conference, however
due to the session information it is likely there is a call out. )
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Rock Art
Worldings - Chronologies, materialities and ontologies
When: 23-26 October 2017
Where:
Linnæus University Conference in Kalmar, Sweden
Conference Details and Registration: https://lnu.se/en/research/conferences/RockArtWorldings
Linnæus University welcomes
you to a three-day conference focused on the Post-Paleolithic rock
art of northern Europe and beyond, and specifically, the relationship
between chronologies, materialities and ontologies. Building on
recent advances in the development of rock art chronologies, we wish
to investigate how these new understandings can be put to use in
exploring aspects of prehistoric materialities and ontologies. In the
wake of works by Viveiros de Castro, Ingold and Descola, among
others, and their reconsideration of humankind's ontologies, we hope
to address how rock art and related categories of material culture
can contribute to our understanding of the prehistory of northern
Europe and connected regions. Given that ontology is intimately
intertwined with social aspects, this conference focuses not only on
the 'conceptual world', but on a broad range of lived experiences and
how these are expressed, manifested and challenged through the use of
rock art media.
The keynote lecture for the
conference – Art beyond the Cave: rock art ontologies – will be
presented by Professor Andrew Meirion Jones, University of
Southampton (UK).
Calls
for Papers
Rock Art
World Holdings – Chronologies, Materialities, and Ontologies – Call
For Papers
Hosting Institution: Linnæus University Kalmar, Sweden.
Deadline: January 31, 2017
Submission Type: Abstract 150 words maximum
Submission Online at: https://lnu.se/en/research/conferences/RockArtWorldings
The Linnæus University of
Kalmar, Sweden invites submissions for proposals for a presentation
in line
with one or more of the
conference themes. (details on website)
The deadline for Paper submittal is January 31, 2017.
Accepted papers will be announced by 31 March 2017.
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2017
ARARA – Call For Papers
Deadline: February 1, 2017
Submission Type: Abstract 150 words maximum
Submission Online at: http://www.arara.org/2017_call_for_papers.html
OR by Email: ARARA.P...@gmail.com
Presenters must be registered for the conference
ARARA invites proposals for
presentations at the 2017 Conference.
Presenters do not have to be
ARARA members to present, but current ARARA members whose papers are
accepted will be given preference. Presenters must register for the
conference by the pre-registration deadline.
Complete submission guidelines
and instructions are available at the website (see the submission
url),
and were also provided in the November Special Edition.
If you cannot submit
from the website, or need help or further information, e-mail the
Program Chair (see above), or call (585) 615-2801.
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British
Rock Art Group (BRAG) 2017 Conference - 27-28th May 2017 Anglesey
(Wales)
The 2016 conference will be held at the Oriel
Ynys Môn Musuem and Arts Center in Wales.
Submission
Emails: Aron Mazel aron....@newcastle.ac.co.uk
Dr.
George Nash georg...@bristol.ac.uk
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14th
Nordic Bronze Age Symposium - University of Oslo
June 6 - 10th 2017
In 1977, the first Nordic Bronze Age symposium was held at
Isegran, Østfold, Norway.
In 2017, the 40th anniversary of the
symposium series will be celebrated, this time in Oslo.
Recent years has seen a trend towards disparate
discourses, either focusing on small-scale or large-scale, southern
or northern narratives of Bronze Age Scandinavia. In this call for
papers, we encourage perspectives on the multi-scaled and contrasting
Bronze Age, and the diversity and connections between e.g.
landscapes, technologies, social practices and materialities. From
the snow patches of the Scandinavian Mountains to the fertile
agricultural areas of south Scandinavia, along the paths to the
upland pastures to the open sea lanes, from the monumental mounds to
the mundane finds; we invite papers exploring the contrasts and
connections that formed the Nordic Bronze Age.
Deadline: Papers will be accepted until December 15, 2016
Submission
Type: Abstract with a 250 word count maximum to the session
organizers*
*Submission emails are within
each session description
http://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2017/14th-nordic-bronze-age-symposium-.html
Sessions are as follows: Linked live on the website
• Beyond Mapping Movement: Travel and exchange
• Contrasts of Bronze Age Societies
• Revitalising gender as a concept in Bronze Age
discourse
• Farming: A defining element of the Nordic Bronze
Age?
• Lithics of the Bronze Age – materials, types,
contexts and technologies
• Rock art – diversity and complexity
• The context and social dynamics of rituals
• Nobody is perfect: contrasts in craft
• Demography: fluctuation, composition and
mobility
• Bronze Age research: Past, present and future
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20th
International Rock Art Congress (IFRAO) – Call For Papers
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2017
Submission Type: Session Proposal
Submission Details at: http://www.ccsp.it/web/Ifrao2018/IFRAO2018_eng.html
Conference Theme: Standing on the shoulders of giants /
Sulle spalle dei giganti
Session proposals should
reach the congress secretariat by January 15 2017.
The scientific committee will
meet on January 31 and the list of chosen sessions will be published.
The Centro Camuno di Studi
Preistorici (CCSP) and the Società Cooperativa Archeologica “Le Orme
dell’Uomo” (Footsteps of Man Archaeological Cooperative Society) have
the pleasure to invite you to the 20th International Rock Art
Congress which will be held in Valcamonica (Italy) from 29th of
August to the 2nd of September 2018.
This major event takes place
50 years after the first "Valcamonica Symposium", marking
30 years since the foundation of IFRAO and the 30th anniversary of
the Footsteps of Man Archaeological Cooperative Society.
The congress will cover a
range of topics relevant to rock art, archaeology, culture and
society, from its first appearance to current forms. During five
days, leading experts in the field, researchers along with young
scholars and enthusiasts, will gather and present the latest results
and studies on rock art, rupestrian archaeology and other relevant
research fields on Palaeolithic and Post-palaeolithic art of all over
the world. More than 30 sessions, workshops, key lectures,
exhibitions, visits with live streaming of certain events are being
planned. Excursions before and after the congress in Valcamonica and
to others areas of the Alps are also being programmed.
The organizers invite session
proposals, each led by at least two and a maximum of 4 people from at
least two different countries and organizations. The accepted
sessions will be chaired by at least two people attending the
congress. The chairpersons of each of the sessions will be asked to
promote, invite speakers, coordinate the presentation of papers and
edit the session proceedings.
Publications
The
Euro-American Discovery of the Coso Petroglyphs by
Alexander Rogers and Russell Kaldenberg
The Maturango
Museum is proud to announce the publication of a new book by authors
by Alexander Rogers and Russell Kaldenberg.
This book is the
result of several years’ research on the discovery of the
petroglyphs, prompted by
frequent questions on petroglyph tours. It describes the original
creation of the rock art, its initial observation by Euro-Americans
in 1860, and subsequent visitors, photographers, and investigators.
The authors conclude that the archaeology and rock art of the Coso
district were known prior to land withdrawal for the Navy in early
1944, but did not play a role in the withdrawal decision.
Both authors are
archaeologists with long experience in Coso. Alexander Rogers is an
archaeology curator at the Maturango Museum; Russell Kaldenberg is
former Command Archaeologist at China Lake, and was also the lead
archaeologist for the Bureau of Land Management in California.
The book is available
in the museum store, for $6.95.
Please contact
the museum at 760-375-6900, or at http://www.maturango.org for more information or
to place an order.
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Picture
Cave: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos
Edited by Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, and F. Kent
Reilly III.
Foreword by Patty Jo Watson.
Photographs of Picture Cave by Alan Cressler
269 b&w photos, 35 b&w illus, 1 map, 26 color illus, 7
maps, 185 color photos
ISBN: 978-0-292-76133-9
Published by: University of Texas Press April 2015
Publisher URL: https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/diaz-granados-picture-cave Currently
on sale for 33% off!
Also available on Amazon.
This extensively
illustrated volume provides the first complete visual documentation
and a pioneering iconographic analysis of Picture Cave, an eastern
Missouri cavern filled with Native American pictographs that is one
of the most important prehistoric sites in North America..
The entire book is
comprised of chapters by several scholars and American Indians on
this remarkable cave in eastern Missouri. Picture Cave contains 400+
paintings/drawings in black and red pigments. Black pigments have been
dated (by Marvin Rowe) to a weighted average of A.D. 1000, making
this one of the most important cave art sites in North America.
Technology
Labstretch2
An app for the iPad and the
Iphone to assist rock art researchers in the field is available for
free download.
See http://www.rupestrian.com/labstretch.html
or
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/labstretch/id1049040326
An iPhone version now available!
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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