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Quick Facts
What is rock art?
Who made Arkansas rock art?
How are petroglyphs made?
How are pictographs made?
What is the difference between rock art and graffiti?
How old is Arkansas rock art?
Why did Native Americans make rock art?
What kinds of rock art images have been identified?
What are rock art styles?
What threatens to destroy rock art?
Where can I see rock art in Arkansas?
What can I do at a rock art site?

Interpretations
A Horse-and-Rider Pictograph
Fish-trap and Paddlefish
Portals Between the Worlds / Underwater Spirit
Footprints, Handprints, and Animal Tracks
The Hellgrammite Pictograph
The Human Body
The Narrows Rock Art Panel
Tools for Making Rock Art at The Narrows
Rock Art in Context: Art
Rock Art in Context: Physical Context
Rock Art in Context: Cultural Landscapes

Articles
The Arkansas Rock Art Project
What is Rock Art and What Can it Tell Us About the Past?
The Chronological and Cultural Context of Arkansas Rock Art
History of Rock Art Research in Arkansas
The Petit Jean Painted Rock Art Style

Technical Papers
Rock Art Documentation in Arkansas
The Narrows Rock Art in Archeological Context
Photogrammetry at The Narrows
Excavations at Rockhouse Cave
Archaeogeophysics at Rockhouse Cave
Actively Managing Rock Art Sites

Resources
Activities
A Native American Bestiary
Ancient Art Forms
Ancient Art Styles
Here Comes the Sun
Petroglyphs and Pictographs
Seeing the Ancient Peoples
Seeing the World Through Ancient Eyes
The Sky World, This World, and the Underworld
Using Databases
Lesson Plans
What is Rock Art Lesson
Ancient Animals
Art and Culture
Mysterious Symbols
Rock Art and Ritual
Seeing Ancient People Lesson
Seeing Ancient Worlds
Glossary
Bibliography
Site Recording Forms
Rock Art Links

Database
Search Database
Search Advanced Database

Just For Kids
Gayle's Quest
Raven's Dream
Jason and Tiffany's Excellent Adventure

Picture Gallery
Visit the Picture Gallery

Buy the Book!




Bibliography

General Rock Art References

Bahn, Paul G. and Jean Vertut
1988 Images of the Ice Age. Windward, Leicester.

Chippendale, Christopher and George Nash
2004 The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art: Looking at Pictures in Place. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Chippendale, Christopher and Paul S.C. Taçon
1998 The Archaeology of Rock Art. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Grant, Campbell
1981 Rock Art of the American Indians (original publication 1967). Promontory Press, New York.

Loendorf, Lawrence, Linda A. Olson, Stuart Conner, and J. Claire Dean
1998 A Manual for Rock Art Documentation . Privately printed with support from the National Park Service and the Bureau of Reclamation.

Ucko, Peter J. and Andree Rosenfeld
1967 Paleolithic Cave Art. McGraw-Hill, New York.

Wellmann, Klaus F.
1979 A Survey of North American Indian Rock Art. Akademische Druck, und Verlagsanstalt, Graz.

Whitley, David S.
2005 Introduction to Rock Art Research. Left Coast Press, Ealnut Creek, CA.

Whitley, David S. (editor)
2001 Handbook of Rock Art Research. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.

Regional Rock Art References

Coy, Fred E., Jr., Thomas C. Fuller, Larry G. Meadows, and James L. Swauger
1997 Rock Art of Kentucky. The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington.

Diaz-Granados, Carol, and James R. Duncan
2000 The Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Missouri. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa and London.

Diaz-Granados, Carol, and James R. Duncan (editors)
2004 The Rock-Art of Eastern North America: Capturing Images and Insight. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa and London.

Faulkner, Charles H. (editor)
1986 The Prehistoric Native American Art of Mud Glyph Cave. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

Faulkner, Charles H. (editor)
1996 Rock Art of the Eastern Woodlands: Proceedings from the Eastern States Rock Art Conference. Occasional Paper 2, American Rock Art Research Association, San Miguel, California.

Keyser, James D. and Michael A. Klassen
2001 Plains Indian Rock Art. University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, and UBC Press, Vancouver and Toronto.

Neel, Charles D. and Kenneth Sampson
1986 Prehistoric Rock Art of the Cross Timbers Management Unit, East Central Oklahoma: An Introductory Study. Oklahoma Archeologival Survey, Archeological Resource Survey Report 27. Norman, Oklahoma.

Newcomb, W. W., Jr.
1967 The Rock Art of Texas Indians. University of Texas Press, Austin.

O'Neill, Brian
1988 Kansas Rock Art. Historic Preservation Department, Kansas State Historical Society. Topeka.

Arkansas Rock Art References

Early, Ann
1991-1992 An Example of Rock Art from the Arkansas Ouachitas. Caddoan Archeology Newsletter 2(4):16-18. Emerson.

Fritz, Gayle J. and Robert Ray
1982 Rock Art Sites in the Southern Arkansas Ozarks and Arkansas River Valley. In Arkansas Archeology in Review , edited by Neal Trubowitz and Marvin Jeter, pp.240-276. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series 15.

Green, Edward
1883 Ancient rock inscriptions in Johnson County, Arkansas. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for 1881 :538-541 .

Hardison, T. W.
1955 A Place Called Petit Jean: The Mountain and Man's Mark. Carden Bottom Publishing, Little Rock.

Harrington, Mark R.
1960 The Ozark Bluff-Dwellers. Museum of the American Indian, Indian Notes and Monographs No. 12. Heye Foundation, New York.

Hilliard, Jerry
1989 An Equestrian Pictograph in Western Arkansas. Plains Anthropologist 34: 327-330.

Hilliard, Jerry and John Riggs
1985 Recent Pictograph Finds in Northwest Arkansas. Field Notes: Newsletter of the Arkansas Archeological Society, No. 207: 3-7.

Lockhart, Jami J. and George Sabo III
2001 Archeogeophysical Prospecting at Rock House Cave (3CN20), Petit Jean State Park. Report submitted to Arkansas Department of State Parks and Tourism.

Porter, Larry
1989 The Green Pictograph Shelter: a recent rock art discovery in the Arkansas River Valley. Field Notes: Newsletter of the Arkansas Archeological Society, No. 230: 3-5.

Sabo, George III
1987 Gimme shelter: Test excavations at Rockhouse Cave (3CN20) in Petit Jean State Park. Field Notes: Newsletter of the Arkansas Archeological Society, No. 214:8-12

Sherrod, P. Clay
1984 Motifs of Ancient Man: A Catalogue of the Pictographs and Petroglyphs in a Portion of the Arkansas River Valley. College of Sciences, University of Arkansas, Little Rock.

Walker, Winslow M.
1932 The Cave Cultures of Arkansas. In Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1931, pp. 159-168. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Native American Art, Artifacts, Archaeoastronomy, and Mythology

Aveni, Anthony (editor)
1975 Archaeoastronomy in pre-Columbian America. University of Texas Press, Austin.

1977 Native American Astronomy . University of Texas Press, Austin.

Brose, David S., James A. Brown and David W. Penney
1985 Ancient Art of the American Woodland Indians . Harry N. Abrams, New York.

Dockstader, Frederick J.
1961 Indian Art in America . New York Graphical Society, Greenwich, CT.

Feder, Norman
1971a American Indian Art . Harry N. Abrams, New York.

1971b Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art . Praeger, New York.

Fundaburk, Emma L. and Mary Douglass Fundaburk Foreman (editors)
1957 Sun Circles and Human Hands: The Southeastern Indians' Art and Industries . Luverne, Alabama.

Leeming, David A., and Jake Page
1998 The Mythology of Native North America . University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

Sherrod, P. Clay, and Martha M. Rolingson
1987 Surveyors of the Ancient Mississippi Valley . Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series No. 28, Fayetteville AR.

Wade, Edwin L. (editor)
1986 The Arts of the North American Indians: Native Traditions in Evolution . Hudson Hills Press, New York.

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