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2017 ARARA
Annual Conference
When: June 1st
to 5th 2017
Where:
The Lodge at Eagle Crest
Redmond, Oregon
Have you registered yet? Don't miss all the fun!!
Registration and information: http://www.arara.org/conference.html
Members and Non-members Fees are listed on the registration page.
Children must register (with their family) but are free. Student attendees receive free conference registration with a valid student ID to be shown at check-in.
Registration age also contains: 2017 Conference Registration Instructions and Links
2017 Field Trip Sign-up Instructions and Links
Video Tutorials: Conference and Field Trip Registration
2017 Hotel Registration Information
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Events
Field Trips
(Monday & Friday) including a unique "Special Field Trip" on Friday
to the Warm Springs Tribal Museum followed by a Kah-Nee-ta
Traditional Salmon Bake meal prepared over alder wood and served by tribal members dressed in their finest regalia.
Speakers
Angelo Fossati from the Italian archaeological cooperative Le Orme dell'Uomo.
Robert David, a local Klamath Tribal member and other honored speakers during the conference
Auction
Vendor Room
Special Education - An educational outreach event will occur in conjunction with the 2017 ARARA annual conference on
Thursday, June 1, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. at Lava Ridge Elementary School in Bend, Oregon.
Banquet
and other activities
ARARA Auction needs Volunteers and Donations!
Carol
Garner is serving as the auction chair this year in Redmond. She is in
need of volunteers to help with collecting and tagging items during the
breaks on Saturday, as well as helpers to set up the tables for the
Silent and Live auctions after presentations have concluded for the day.
She could also use several cashiers. Collecting, tagging, and pricing
will take place ONLY during the breaks. No one will have to miss any
papers due to volunteering.
And of course, we need all the rock art books, objects d'art, and goodies that you can donate!
We
are going to try something a bit different with the silent auction this
year -- preliminary bids will be taken in the vendor room during the
day on Saturday. The bidding will conclude in the evening, at the start
of the live auction. This will give everyone a better chance to view
and bid on the many items this event always features.
As usual, a cash bar and hors d'oeuvres will be available at the evening event.
You can reach Carol at gypscholar [at] aol [dot] com with any questions or to volunteer.
Thanks! See you in Oregon.
Rock
Art Preservation - Raising Awareness, and new Scientific Discoveries
Tribal Commission on Bears Ears Declares Revocation of Monument Status Would Be Tragic
Members
of a newly formed tribal advisory commission for the Bears Ears
National Monument reminded Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in a letter
Friday that his agency must partner with them, and warned him that
rescinding or shrinking the monument would be “absolute tragedies.”
Utah’s congressional delegation and state leaders including Gov. Gary
Herbert have asked President Donald Trump to rescind or shrink the 1.35
million acre monument in southeastern Utah that was designated by former
President Barack Obama in December.
http://bit.ly/2noOtya – US News and World Report
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High Country News Points out How Environmental Action Could Help Bears Ears and Other Public Lands
I’m
not a native-born Utahn, but I came here 40 years ago and made it my
home. One of my first views of this remarkable land was of the Bears
Ears area of southern Utah. It is sacred territory to me. Had I not
lived here all these decades but simply viewed the recent debate over
the Bears Ears from afar, I’d probably be an enthusiastic supporter of
its recent designation as a national monument. But I’ve been involved in
these kinds of issues for decades, and the preservation of the Bears
Ears is far more complicated than the monument’s architects will admit. I
think there is a better way to protect the Bears Ears than its new
monument designation, and a more honest way to still empower the Native
Americans who deserve an integral role in protecting this landscape’s
future.
http://bit.ly/2ofBgac – High Country News
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Editorial: The Antiquities Act Is Threatened
The
heart of the Antiquities Act of 1906 is a mere two sentences. But a
good argument can be made that this brief law — which authorizes the
president to protect “objects of historic or scientific interest” on
federal lands as “national monuments” — has done more than any other to
shape our nation’s conservation legacy. The act has been used more than
150 times, by nearly every president, Republican and Democrat, from
Theodore Roosevelt on, to protect hundreds of millions of acres for the
inspiration and enjoyment of present and future generations. Five of the
nation’s 10 most-visited national parks — Grand Canyon, Zion, Olympic,
Teton and Acadia, each attracting millions of people a year — were first
protected by presidents using the Antiquities Act.
http://nyti.ms/2nu2NBg – New York Times_____________________________________________
Earliest dated rock art in Southern Africa depicts shamans' journey to the world of the spirits
For the first time, researchers have directly dated rock art in Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa.
For
years, archaeologists have known that southern Africa is home to very
rich and well-understood rock art produced by hunter-gatherers in the
Later Stone Age, but they had been unable to date these creations
precisely.
Using
an innovative approach, researchers have now come up with new dates,
which suggest that in south-eastern Botswana, rock art was created as
far back as 5723–4420 cal BP – the oldest such evidence found to date in
Southern Africa. Their complete findings are now published in the
Journal Antiquity. (Article continues)
International Business Times UK - 05 April 2017
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/earliest-dated-rock-art-southern-africa-depicts-shamans-journey-world-spirits-1615320
Scientific Article behind article above
The earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa: new AMS radiocarbon datese
By: Adelphine Bonneau, David Pearce, Peter Mitchell, Richard Staff...
Antiquity Volume 91, Issue 356 April 2017, pp. 322-333
Published online 04 April 2017 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.271
Abstract
Rock
art worldwide has proved extremely difficult to date directly. Here,
the first radiocarbon dates for rock paintings in Botswana and Lesotho
are presented, along with additional dates for Later Stone Age rock art
in South Africa. The samples selected for dating were identified as
carbon-blacks from short-lived organic materials, meaning that the
sampled pigments and the paintings that they were used to produce must
be of similar age. The results reveal that southern African
hunter-gatherers were creating paintings on rockshelter walls as long
ago as 5723–4420 cal BP in south-eastern Botswana: the oldest such
evidence yet found in southern Africa
Scientific
Paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/earliest-directly-dated-rock-paintings-from-southern-africa-new-ams-radiocarbon-dates/B071E61BE2B9640E5B9A430E1464F980 (PDF available) _____________________________________________
Researchers uncover prehistoric art and ornaments from Indonesian ‘Ice Age’ Griffith
University archaeologists are part of a joint Indonesian-Australian
team that has unearthed a rare collection of prehistoric art and
‘jewelry’ objects from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, dating in some
instances to as early as 30,000 years ago.
The Australian
Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) team, based in Griffith’s
Environmental Futures Research Institute, together with Indonesian
colleagues, have shed new light on ‘Ice Age’ human culture and symbolism
in a paper published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (PNAS)
URL: http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/04/researchers-uncover-prehistoric-art-and-ornaments-from-indonesian-ice-age/114482 _____________________________________________
TEDx Talk: Finding hidden rock art in Asia - Dr. Noel Hidalgo Tan
Dr
Noel Hidalgo Tan is a premiere Rock Art Archeologist in Asia. In the
video linked below he is discussing not just how to find Rock art in
Asia, but how plentiful it is. Dr. is probably best known across the
world for discovering the “Hidden Paintings” of Ankor Wat. (see below)
Academia – https://www.academia.edu/22572582/TEDx_Talk_Finding_hidden_rock_art_in_Asia
Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GebXc8rkDs
Ankor Wat
The
temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia is one of the most famous monuments in
the world and is noted for its spectacular bas-relief friezes depicting
ceremonial and religious scenes. Recent work reported here has
identified an entirely new series of images consisting of paintings of
boats, animals, deities and buildings. Difficult to see with the naked
eye, these can be enhanced by digital photography and decorrelation
stretch analysis, a technique recently used with great success in rock
art studies. The paintings found at Angkor Wat seem to belong to a
specific phase of the temple’s history in the sixteenth century AD when
it was converted from a Vishnavaite Hindu use to Theravada Buddhist.
The Hidden Paintings of Angkor Wat Antiquity, Vol 88 http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/088/ant0880549.htm
The Invisible Graffiti of Angkor Wat Science, 27 May 2014
http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2014/05/invisible-graffiti-angkor-wat
Angkor Wat’s Hidden Paintings Revealed with Digital Technique Scientific American, 28 May 2014
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/angkor-wat-s-hidden-paintings-revealed-with-digital-technique/
Rock Art Events & Meetings
Monthly Meeting of the Southern
Nevada Rock Art Association
Date: May 22th
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: George Phillips
For more complete
information, please visit the SNRAA Website at http://snraa.org/snraa.org/EVENTS.html
Upcoming SNRAA Meetings: Jun 26th
— Barron Haley “Rock Art in New Mexico”
Jul 24th — Harold Larson & Jeanne Howerton “Rock Art Along the Old Spanish Trail” Aug 28th
— Judy Hilbish “Western Message Petroglyphs”
Sep 25th
— David Valentine “Rock Art in Western Idaho”
Oct 23rd
— Rick Bury “Ancient Chumash Astronomers' ”
Nov 27th
— Diane Winslow “Parowan Rock Art”
Dec
— No Meeting
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
Planning continues 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 (dot) mazel
(at) newcastle (dot) ac (dot) co (dot) uk
Dr.
George Nash george (dot) nash (at) bristol (dot) ac
(dot) 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.
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.
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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).
Field
Schools
Summer
school and Recording RockArt Fieldwork in Valcamonica, Italy –
July/August 2017
When: July - August 2017
Where: Riserva naturale Incisioni
rupestri di Ceto, Cimbergo e Paspardo
Via Piana 29, Nadro, 25040
Ceto, Italy
Deadline to Apply: 1 June 2017
Field School Type: Volunteer. No Academic Credit Offered.
Main
Website: http://www.rupestre.net (Not yet updated from the 2016 season)
Project
Director: Prof. Angelo Eugenio Fossati
(from an event notice)
In the wonderful framework of
the Landmarks Valley, recognized as UNESCO heritage since 1979, the
Centro Camuno of Studi Preistorici organize the annual recording
rock-art fieldwork aims at the documentation of the rock art in the
middle Valcamonica. Following the previous recording rock art
fieldwork, also this year the work will continue in the area of Foppe
di Nadro – Riserva naturale incisioni rupestri di Ceto, Cimbergo e
Paspardo (Valcamonica - Italy) on the concession of the
Soprintendenza Archeologia , Belle arti e Paesaggio.
The fieldwork will be
structured on 3 week sessions, it is required to participate for at
least 1-2 weeks.
Project Description
Valcamonica rock art (the first World Heritage List site
in UNESCO in Italy), is an alpine valley between the provinces of
Bergamo and Brescia in Northern Italy. In Valcamonica rock art constitutes an
archaeological, artistic, ethnographic and historical patrimony of
immense value, not only for its antiquity but, for the thematic and
iconographic wealth. As an active rock art center, member of IFRAO (International Federation of Rock
Art Organizations), the Footsteps of Man and the Catholic University
of Brescia, organize annual archaeology fieldwork at Paspardo, one of
the major concentrations of engravings in the area, giving those
interested (archaeologists and scholars, students and enthusiasts)
the opportunity to help the research and learn how to study rock art
at Valcamonica.
Project participants will:
survey, excavate, clean, photograph, draw and catalogue the rocks
engraved in three main sites at Paspardo, Valcamonica: Vite-Deria, La
Bosca, Castello. The project consists of different phases, some are
executed at the sites (survey
to find new engraved rocks; analysis of the level of damage to the
rock surfaces and conservation problems; contact tracing to record
the engravings using permanent pens on plastic sheets and photography),
and some in the laboratory (reduction
of drawing to scale; cataloguing of engravings). Training will be
given.
During each fieldwork
session, participants will also have evening lectures on rock art
subjects delivered by scholars of international fame, watch films,
and have the opportunity to visit other rock art sites (such as the National Park of
Naquane, at Capo di Ponte, the park of Foppe di Nadro, at Ceto, and
the Park of Bedolina-Seradina at Capo di Ponte), the Roman
National Museum and some medieval churches with beautiful frescoes
and sculptures.
In Paspardo accommodation is
provided in a communal house with rooms, dormitories, showers and
kitchen. Volunteers should bring: personal towels, work clothes and
gloves, gym shoes, sleeping bag, sun cream, sun hat and sun glasses.
Full information including travel to Paspardo and a bibliography will
be given to participants.
Period(s)
of Occupation: Neolithic to Medieval Time
Notes:
We are working on rock
engraved with images made by prehistoric and proto-historic people
mainly during the Neolithic (six
thousand years ago), Bronze Age and Iron Age (from four thousand to two thousand
years ago). You will learn how to trace the rock art and help us
in discovering new rocks engraved
Project size: 25-49 participants
Minimum Length of Stay for
Volunteers: One session (one week)
Minimum age: 16
Experience required: Keen eyes and open mind
Calls
for Papers
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 (dot) mazel (at) newcastle
(dot) ac (dot) co (dot) uk
Dr.
George Nash george (dot) nash (at) bristol (dot) ac
(dot) uk
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 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
Labstretch is still available for the IPad.
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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