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Article: Contesting the incontestable.(archaeology and rock art)
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- Rock Art Research
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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It is no longer true that archaeologists shy away from rock art because 'they cannot take it into their labs'. Numerous archaeologists throughout the United States have 'rediscovered' rock art and are both excavating rock art sites and are applying clinical techniques to the investigation of petroglyphs and paintings in the field. And, despite their empirical training and perspectives, they still call it 'rock art'. This might be because they are busy doing something with it, and not getting entangled in revisionistic adventures in the full face of monumental precedence.
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