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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 online closes on the 24th.
All registrations after that must be done on-site at the conference.
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 still Donations!
Carol
Garner, the auction chair, is still in
need of donations still. We need all the rock art books, objects d'art, and goodies that you can donate!
We are trying 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.
You can reach Carol at gypscholar [at] aol [dot] com with any questions
Thanks! See you in Oregon.
ARARA Field Trips - Meet and Greet Thursday Evening June 1st
There is a Highly Recommended meeting
for all field trip participants in Ballroom C at 5:45pm for field trip
leaders and participants, so that everyone can locate their leaders (for both Friday and Monday) and find out their trip departure points.
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic Database
A Bibliographic Database is a work in progress which was begun in March, 1993. Currently the database contains 35,000 citations to the world’s rock art literature.. More than 11,687 citations are held in the compiler’s personal library. These and many others were reviewed for annotation. The
RAS database first became available with free and open access on the
internet through a joint partnership between the Bay Area Rock Art
Research Association (BARARA) and
the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley in 2003. That
partnership enjoyed fourteen years of service to the rock art research
community. In the fall of 2016 a new partnership was forged between the
Museum of Northern Arizona (Flagstaff) and BARARA. With its new web
interface and searchable data platform, the Rock Art Studies Database
project is poised for many more years of continuing literature updates
and relevancy.URL: https://musnaz.org/search_rock_art_studies_db/
Rock
Art Preservation - Raising Awareness, and new Scientific Discoveries
Dreams of the Stone Age dated for first time in southern Africa
Ancient rock art research could piece together how the peoples who lived in the region some 5,700 years ago interacted.
By: Sarah Wild 03 May 2017
Nature 545, 14–15 (04 May 2017)
Published online 04 April 2017 DOI: :10.1038/545014a
URL: http://www.nature.com/news/dreams-of-the-stone-age-dated-for-first-time-in-southern-africa-1.21924
Scientists
have directly dated Stone Age rock paintings in southern Africa
reliably for the first time. Their work reveals that early
hunter-gatherer peoples created art at three sites in the region, some
5,700 years ago (A. Bonneau et al. Antiquity 91, 322–333; 2017). And the
findings open the door for archaeologists and other researchers to date
thousands more rock paintings in this part of Africa — and so piece
together the lives and development of ancient people there.
The
study focused on paintings in present-day Botswana, South Africa and
Lesotho created by the San people, whose direct descendants still live
in the area. The San have been much studied, but many mysteries remain
about how they lived, and how they interacted with other groups — such
as early farmers.
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Review of Certain National Monuments Established Since 1996; Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment Docket ID: DOI-2017-0002 Agency: Department of the Interior (DOI) Website: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=DOI-2017-0002 (This is the comments page)
Supporting Document: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOI-2017-0002-0001
Docket ID: DOI-2017-0002-0001
(Copied from Supporting Document)
Action: Notice; Request for comments.
Summary
The
U.S. Department of the Interior is conducting a review of certain
National Monuments designated or expanded since 1996 under the
Antiquities Act of 1906 in order to implement Executive Order 13792 of
April 26, 2017. The Secretary of the Interior will use the review to
determine whether each designation or expansion conforms to the policy
stated in the Executive Order and to formulate recommendations for
Presidential actions, legislative proposals, or other appropriate
actions to carry out that policy. This Notice identifies twenty-seven
National Monuments under review and invites comments to inform the
review.
Dates
To ensure consideration, written comments relating to the Bears Ears National Monument must be submitted BEFORE May 26, 2017. Written comments relating to all other National Monuments must be submitted before July 10, 2017. _____________________________________________
How to Protect Our National Monuments (Southwest Archeology Today)
Topics:
- Archaeology Southwest’s President and CEO on How to Protect Our National Monuments
- We Only Have until May 26th to Save Bears Ears
Follow this link to make your voice heard. http://monumentsforall.org/ – Monuments for All
- The New Range War
and more …
URL: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2017/05/15/how-to-protect-our-national-monuments/
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State of Rock Art in North America
To those unable to see the live event, or attend in person, on
the 18th of May the webcast of the event is now available at the website
below.
URL: http://nmai.si.edu/explore/multimedia/webcasts/ _____________________________________________
Presidential Order Silences Alaskan Native Voices Bering Sea Elders
Group Condemns President Trump’s Revocation of Critical Bering Sea
Executive Order, as Alaska Delegation Stands By
April 28, 2017
NARF’s client, the Bering Sea Elders Group, released the following statement in response to today’s Executive Order.
URL: http://www.narf.org/2017/04/trump_order_bering_sea/
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Brazil's archaeologists join fight to preserve country's ancient lands Jonathan Watts in Rio de Janeiro — Wednesday 10 May 2017
Government plans to roll back regulation for construction projects
Critics say proposals threaten indigenous groups and cultural heritage
Brazil’s
archaeologists have lined up alongside conservationists and indigenous
rights campaigners to protest against government proposals that they see
as a threat to pre-colonial cultural heritage as well as forests,
native communities and biodiversity.
The plan, to be debated by
Congress on Wednesday, would roll back licensing rules for
infrastructure projects, making it easier for construction companies to
bulldoze sites of ancient Amazonian civilizations before they have been
excavated.
Main Article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/10/brazil-archaeologists-ancient-lands-indigenous
Roll back licensing rules for infrastructure projects:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/21/brazil-environment-laws-indigenous-people
Brazil's plan to roll back environment laws draws fire: 'The danger is real' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/21/brazil-environment-laws-indigenous-people
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One man's mission to save world's earliest cave paintings (Jun 2014)
David
Coulson has driven the length and breadth of Africa determined to
document its ancient rock art before it disappears forever
URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/10912342/One-mans-mission-to-save-worlds-earliest-cave-paintings.html
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TARA — Trust for African Rock Art
TARA
is an international, Nairobi-based organization committed to recording
the rich rock art heritage of the African continent, to making this
information widely accessible and, to the extent possible, safeguarding
those sites most threatened by humans and nature. To achieve its
mission, TARA works closely with communities where rock art is found as
well as with national and international heritage bodies including the
UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
URL: http://africanrockart.org/
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Stunning Ice Age rock art vandalised by modern graffiti By Olga Gertcyk ~ 11 May 2017
Sacred site up to 17,000 years old - believed to be gateway to the underworld - under threat from modern spray paint artists.
URL: http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/stunning-ice-age-rock-art-vandalised-by-modern-graffiti/
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Federally recognized tribes should brace for possible termination policy (Alaska Indigenous)
URL: https://alaskaindigenous.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/federally-recognized-tribes-should-brace-for-possible-termination-policy-under-trump/
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 speaking on "Pursuing Elusive Grand Canyon Rock Art"
George
(Phil) Phillips was born in Southern Nevada where he has lived for 70
years. His interest in southwestern cultural history and prehistory has
been part of his family’s enthusiasm that began in the late 1800s. In
1998 he focused on rock art through friends in the Southern Nevada Rock
Art Association. Interest in the rock art in and around the Grand Canyon
was cultivated through friendship with researchers Don Christensen,
Jerry Dickey, and Steve Freers. Physical demands for the numerous treks
into the canyon each year became known as “Christensen’s Death March.”
The rock art was complex, fragile, and stunning. A special interest
flared into an intense dedication.
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
URL: http://www.arara.org/conference.html
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.
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Gobustan - Rock Art at the Crossroads of Cultures
When: June 13-14, 2017
Where: Baku City
Gobustan National Park
Garadagh District and Apsheron District, Qobu, Abşeron, Azerbaijan Contact: gobustan [at] outlook.com We
are delighted to invite you to the international conference dedicated
50th anniversary of establishment of Gobustan National Historical
Artistic preserve, entitled “Gobustan - Rock Art at the Crossroads of Cultures”,
organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of
Azerbaijan with the support of National Commission of UNESCO and
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. This event will be held on
13-14 June, in Baku city and Gobustan National Historical Artistic
preserve.
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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.
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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 / Proposals
Call for Proposals - URARA 37th Annual Symposium, Green River, Utah, October 06 - 09, 2017
Proposals should have a title and an abstract
Abstract Word limit: 200
Deadline: 7 August 2017
Submit to: David Sucec, Presentations Coordinator at bcsproject [at ] xmission [dot] com
or by mail to 832 Sego Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84702
email is the preferred method of submission.
Preference will be given to to proposals that relate to Utah Rock Art.
Presentations are allowed a maximum of thirty (30) minutes, Site reports twenty (20) minutes.
Presentation format must be in Power Point ONLY
Reviewing process all abstracts will be reviewed for
suitability
balanced points-of-view
and to ensure that the number of papers does not exceed the time available for presentations.
Publications
Pushing the Boundaries: Pictographs and Petroglyphs at Oregons Harney Basin
The Oregon Archeological Society is proud to announce the publication of a new book by authors
by Don Hann and Daniel Leen.
Available first only at the ARARA Conference in June!
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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