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Article: Discovering North American Rock Art
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- Western Folklore
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Discovering North American Rock Art. Edited by Lawrence L. Loendorf, Christopher Chippindale, and David S. Whitley. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 334, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, photographs, illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth)
Throughout the world, rock art-whether painted pictograph or incised petroglyph-appears to have been a universal medium of cultural expression. In North America it has been the focus of a prolonged and sometimes fraught conversation among archaeologists, anthropologists, folklorists and, less commonly, Native Americans. Rock art research has typically been the domain of archaeologists, but many ...