American Rock Art Research Association
24th Annual Conference

May 24, 25, 26, 1997

Local Host:
U.S. Forest Service, Comanche National Grasslands

La Junta, Colorado
Otero Junior College

Schedule of Events

Friday, May 23


Noon    Board Meeting

4:00    Vendor Room open for vendor setup.

5:00    Registration Table Opens. Otero Junior College

6:00    Member Reception.  Kiva Museum.

        Registration Table Open.

8:00    Registration Closed

Saturday, May 24


7:30 AM Registration Table Opens



8:00    Vendor Room Open

NOTE: Vendor Room will be open during breaks, during the lunch 

hour, and until 6:00 after the last paper session.



8:30    Welcome to La Junta

8:35    Welcome

8:45    Presentation of the Oliver Award for Rock Art Photography to Clay 

        Martin.

Southeastern Colorado Rock Art Session.
Lawrence Loendorf, Moderator.


9:15    Peter Faris

        Petroglyph Styles and Chronology in Southeastern Colorado.

9:35    Mark Mitchell

        The Archaeology and Rock Art of the Upper Purgatoire River 

        Valley, Southeastern Colorado.

9:55    John Rudolph

        Rock Art and Migration Routes on the Purgatoire River.

10:15   Daphne Rudolph

        A Postulated Relationship Between Rock Art and the Culture of 

        Native Peoples in the Purgatoire Drainage.

10:35   Break/Vendor Room Open  

11:05   Bill McGlone and Bill Tilley

        Preliminary Investigation of the Tilley Site, Southeast Colorado.

11:25   Alice M. Tratebas

        Evidence of Paleo-Indian and Archaic Hunting Techniques.

11:45   Mavis Greer and John Greer

        Montana Rock Art Motifs: Handprints.

12:05 Lunch Break/Vendor Room Open Education Committee Lunch Meeting: Otero Junior College Student Center.

1:30       Ron Dorn Where Now With Petroglyph Dating? One View. 

Conservation Symposium.
Claire Dean, Moderator.


1:50 PM William D. Hyder and Claire Dean

        Introduction

2:00    Marietta Davenport (US Forest Service) and Shawn Wendall (Pink 

        Jeep Tours)

        Private Partnerships in Preservation

2:30    Deb Dandridge (US Forest Service)

        Vogel Canyon Archaeological District Conservation Funding.

3:00    Break/Vendor Room Open  

3:30    Janine McFarland and Stephen Horne (US Forest Service)

        Beating a Path to Rock Art Sites: Visitor Use Rates, Los Padres 

        National Forest, SantaÏBarbara, California.

4:00    Ben Swadley (Plantation Agriculture Museum, Scott, Arkansas)

        The Applicability of Conservation Assessment Program (CAP) 

        Grants for Rock Art Sites.

4:30    Todd Bostwick (City Of Phoenix) and J. Claire Dean (Dean & 

        Associates-Conservation Services)

        Technical Update on the Use of Graffiti-B-Gone.

4:40    Discussion

5:00    End of Conservation Session

        Adjorn/Vendor Room Open 

6:00    Vendor Room Closed



8:00    Conservation Committee Meeting: Holiday Inn Express Conference 

        Room.

Sunday, May 25


7:45 AM Registration Opens

8:00    Vendor Room Open

NOTE: Vendor Room will be open during breaks, during the lunch 

hour, and will close following the afternoon break.



8:30    ARARA Business Meeting 

9:30    Adjourn Business Meeting

        Break/Vendor Room Open

General Rock Art Session I.
Ken Hedges, Moderator.


10:00   Terry Sayther

        The Rock Art of Coahuila, Mexico, Nine New Pecos Style Sites and 

        the Electric Cross

10:20   Carolyn E. Boyd

        Pictographic Evidence of Peyotism in the Lower Pecos, Texas 

        Archaic

10:40   Helen Crotty

        Rock Art of the Sandstone Outcrop at Pueblo Blanco, Galisteo Basin, 

        New Mexico

11:00   Ekkehart Malotki

        The Rake: A Polysemous Motif in the Shamanistic Rock Art 

        Iconography of the Palavayu Anthropomorphic Style, Northeast 

        Arizona

11:20   Todd Bostwick

        Possible Katsina Iconography in the South Mountains, Arizona

11:40   Ann Phillips

        Coordinating the Recording of Arch Canyon Ruin



12:00   Lunch/Vendor Room Open

General Rock Art Session II.
Diane Hamann, Moderator.


1:30    Goeff Blundell

        Growing Animals: Towards Explaining an Enigmatic Feature of 

        Upper Palaeolithic Archaeology.

1:50    Janet Lever

        Sound Within Rock Art

2:10    Steven J. Waller

        Spatial Correlation of Acoustics and Rock Art in Horseshoe Canyon

2:30    Marvin W. Rowe and Marian Hyman

        Chemical Pretreatment on Plasma-Chemical Extraction for 14C 

        Dating of Rock Paintings

2:50    Ken Hedges

        Recording Rock Art: Philosophies and Procedures

3:10    Break/Vendor Room Open  

3:40    Jack Steinbring

        Wisconsin Rock Art: A Preliminary Overview and Synthesis

4:00    Alanah Woody and Alivin McLane

        The Distribution of Vulviforms on White Tuff in Nevada

4:20    Carolynne Merrell

        Buffalo Eddy: A Confluence of Influence as Seen Through its 

        Pictographs and Petroglyphs

4:40    Paul Freeman

        Coccidiomycosis, An Archaeologist's Disease?

5:00    Jack Doty



5:20    Adjorn

6:30    Banquet No Host Bar Opens

7:00    Banquet Begins

        Guest Speaker: David Lewis-Williams