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Purely editorial changes are usually not noted.
2008 November 15 -- Membership form now current. Click here. (Caroline Maddock)
2008 November 13 -- Updated the Operations Manual with files received from President Billo. Click here. Hope this has eliminated the last occurrences of actual emails on the web site (other than those of Web committee chair, and a few special cases where the individuals are perfectly comfortable with it)..
2008 November 4 -- Changed all email addresses for Board members and committee chairs to the form XXX [at] YYY so that they are not directly harvestable for spam mailers. [Board preference]
2008 October 31 -- La Pintura downloads page now shows transition to calendar year basis. Click here.
2008 October 30 -- Call for Papers for annual conference 2009 posted, along with application form (Carol Ormsbee (sp.?) via Evelyn Billo and Bob Mark) Please click here.
2008 October 30 -- Agendas posted for Board, Conservation Committee, Web Committee. That's up from one to three agendas. (Billo, Sprague, Anderson)
2008 October 21 -- Trial marking of terms of Board members, as (2007-2009) or (2008-2010). (Evelyn Billo suggested need for additional clarity.) See here.
2008 October 21, 29 -- Addition of a draft-only page illustrating how an automated application form for field trips could function. Not yet functional to submit by email. See here. Includes a link to a page explaining how the procedure ensures fairness, and what mistakes can reduce one's chances of getting a favorite field trip.
2008 October 21 -- Changes in the graphic appearance of the web site. Eliminating underlining for links, currently implemented for the "Standing documents and Contacts" page, will be generalized to all pages on the site if the web committee approves. Several other features of basic page layout for "Beautiful Web Design" (Jason Beaird 2007 pp.22-32) are summarized here.
2008 October 10 -- Logos for Annual Conference 2009 received and posted to web site (home page and Conference page) (Donna Gillette with formatting by Chris Gralapp)
2008 July and August 14 -- Thanks especially to Gary Hein, also Evelyn Billo, deleted several non-functioning links and fixed a few editorial matters..
2008 July 16 -- Added dates for Bakersfield Conference to home page, to Calendar, and to Conference page.
2008 July 13 -- Replaced home page and Conference page images with smaller versions provided by Bob Edberg so that they will load faster, provide a better experience for visitors. Chris Gralapp (designer of home page images) approved the change.
2008 July 9 -- Updated current and ARARA officers and board members (click here), with the history (click here), and production manager for La Pintura (click here). (President Mavis Greer)
2008 June 19 -- Added a page "Nine Mile Canyon News" with links to recent newspaper articles, originally contained in emails from the Nine Mile Canyon Coalition. Click here. This keeps such items more easily accessible. This is one step in a standing project to increase effectiveness in making alerts and success stories and updates more easily available to our members and to others, beyond their brief appearance in emails.
2008 June 18 -- Eliminated few remaining stray links to pages which are no longer to be public ("Art Inspired by Rock Art", "Evaluating this Draft")
2008 June 16 -- Added forthcoming book by Loendorf to the "Plains" section of the basic list of books by culture areas.
2008 June 4 -- Added link to Nevada Archaeological Society, and they will provide a link to us. Click here.
2008 June 3 -- Updated ARARA publications order form [Chair Peggy Whitehead] Click here.
2008 June 1 -- Replaced membership form with May 2008 version [President Mavis Greer] Click here.
2008 May 30 -- Corrected location and dates of URARA conference on our Calendar page. Click here. [from announcement received]
2008 May 30 -- Added to La Pintura downloadable files the most recent two issues 34 no.3 and 34 no.4. Click here. [from older web site]
2008 May 29 -- Added to Education pages links to Poster Contest rules and to Education Standards (so far only California). Click here. [from older web site]
2008 May 29 -- Membership form replaced by newer one for transition to end-of-calendar-year renewals, and asking for numbers of individuals included in family memberships. Click here. [President Greer] Address to mail membership form corrected to Glendale, AZ now also on Membership page.
2008 May 18 -- In preparation for becoming official ARARA web site, removed link from "Pictures" page to "Art_Inspired_By_Rock_Art" page, to which there should no longer be any link. [18 June, removed all other links to that page, so it is now accessible only to members of the Web Committee]
2008 May 18 --
Removed "Goals for this Web Site" link from home page, now that and "Evaluating this draft" are accessible only from the page for the Web Committee agenda. [18 June, removed all other links to "Evaluating this draft". A new evaluation procedure page is to be added.]
2008 May 18 -- Added to Conference page Map to Farmington Public Library for Thursday night lecture. Click here.
[Mavis Greer]
2008 May 14? -- Added to Conference page Map to Salmon Ruins conference reception. Click here. [Mavis Greer]
2008 May 15? -- Added to 2008 Conference page the "Selection Procedures for Field trips" document. Click here.
[Gary Hein] This will become a standing document. [Mavis Greer]
2008 May 12 -- Added 2008 ARARA Conference poster to conference page
2008 May 8 -- Corrected ARARA postal address (Ken Hedges noticed)
2008 March 12 -- Updated Books for Kids and Teachers, revision supplied by Sherry Eberwein. Please click here.
2008 March 12 -- Revised two links to Piedra Pintada Books to specify that any other bookseller whose major focus is rock art books will also be listed here, just let us know. [June 2008, additional book dealers added to list, and disclaimer modified]
2008 March 5 -- Added .pdf files of Conservation Committee chair Jack Sprague's letters concerning the Shaman's Gallery in Grand Canyon, endangered by public posting of directions to the site. Please click here.
2008 Feb.2 -- Added a list of (mostly) major books on Rock Art of North America, grouped by area or culture. This is intended as a quick introduction for those interested in a particular area. Please click here.
2008 Jan.21 -- Added a page of URLs for Wikipedia articles on Rock Art. Please click here.
2008 Jan.18 -- Added initial draft agenda structure for Web Committee work in immediate and longer-term future. Accessible via Contacts > Committee Agendas. Please click here.
2008 Jan.17 -- Added logo for 2008 Farmington conference to home page (supplied by Chris Gralapp)
2008 Jan.16 -- Numerous editorial changes reflecting suggestions received from Mavis Greer, President.
2008 Jan.15 -- Added a menu bar at the bottom of the home page, giving access to all parts of the web site, along with index pages for each major content area, also containing that menu bar. This had long been planned, but it was done more quickly because of suggestions from Terry Moody and the Board. Towards the end of February, after there has been a chance to refine and polish that menu bar slightly, it will be added to many other pages of the site.
2008 Jan.8 -- Added to site the La Pintura issues, as downloadable .pdf files, latest ones visible first. Click here.
2008 Jan.8 -- Added article "Radiocarbon Dating of RockPaintings" by Marvin W. Rowe. Click here.
2008 Jan.6 -- With help from Chris Gralapp on several matters, added some of her graphic ideas to the home page of the site. See also 2007 Nov.24.
2008 Jan.6 -- Added current information on the 2008 Conference, the Call for Papers, the form for Offering a Paper for the Conference. (Ken Hedges and Daniel McCarthy, Donna Gillette)
2007 Dec.26 -- Added to page for Success Stories etc. Settlement penalties against G. Johnson in Arizona seen as a wake-up call to developers that they must obey the laws. Click here.
2007 Dec.17 -- Renewed web site for NineMileCanyon coalition now linked to from page for Membership Organizations in the USA and from the page for Action Alerts. Click here. New link for Chinese Rock Art Research Association. Click here.
2007 Dec.14 -- Added new Education Award, accessible from the Awards page. (Marglhyph for Janet Lever-Woods, confirmed by Mavis Greer) Click here.
2007 Nov.29 -- Added distribution of members by state for ESRARA. (Carol Diaz-Granados) Click here.
2007 Nov.26 -- Added pages for "Press Releases" here and "For Young Scholars" here, the first on word from president Mavis Greer and committee chair Chris Gralapp that the Public Relations committee does exist. Also added emails (automatically forwarded) "publicrelations@americanrockart.org" and "youngscholars@americanrockart.org"
2007 Nov.25 -- Added email accounts for all Board members and committee chairs, of the form "president@americanrockart.org". These can all be seen on the "Contacts" page here.They do not store email, but rather all forward it on automatically to the personal emails chosen by those individuals. This protects against spam after a term of office ends. (Bob Edberg suggestion) [later eliminated, see 4 November 2008]
2007 Nov.24 -- Added Nominations Procedures, a simple general statement. It is linked to from near the top of the "Contacts" page, as the last line of the paragraph introducing the Board members and their terms. [text from Sandy Rogers, chair of the Nominations committee] Please click here.
2007 Nov.24 -- [18 June, 2008, this item referred to early stages in designs by Chris Gralapp of graphic images for the home page of the site. Since this has now been fully implemented (in a light "sandstone" texture which leaves text easy to read), please see the home page.]
2007 Nov.24 -- Graphic alternatives (1) The typeface on the page "Art Inspired by Rock Art" has been changed to Verdana (with Arial and any Sans-Serif font as 2nd and 3rd choices on computers not having Verdana). People can judge whether they prefer this generally, or for specific pages. Requested by Marglyph. [18 June 2008, This page is now accessible only to members of the Web committee as an example of graphics. It is not part of the official ARARA web site.]
2007 Nov.23-24 -- Links from the Home page have been made more effective in several areas. Some temporary links (those which were waiting for info on the 2008 Farmington conference, and a couple of others) have been demoted to where they more properly belong . This enabled better highlighting in the top center for Conferences, Calendar, Latest Changes (which is intended as a permanent tool for members and visitors looking for new content, not mainly as now for tracking changes during development), and Volunteer ! (which now includes a link to the 2008 conference request for volunteers).
On the left side, the category "Active Management and Protection" has changed to "Management, Protection, and Conservation" and now includes as its last item, revealed by clicking on the "+" sign, "Conservation Science" (which is one specific aspect of conservation).
"Action Alerts and Success Stories" now occupies that space (formerly "Conservation Science") since those were the most substantive categories remaining on the right hand side. There is a third item under that, "Endangered Rock Art" to include information like that recently relayed by Robert Mark on the Western / Libyan Desert. This depends of course on the content material for Action Alerts, for Endangered Rock Art, and for Success Stories being developed and maintained, which is an effort now in process by others.
The "Mission Statement" adopted by the Membership of ARARA is a very efficient and short statement which can rather simply be placed on the home page, so it is now there.
2007 Nov.20 -- added officers for 2007 and 2006 to list of past officers, actually of course a history of officers, so the list is complete (info from Mavis Greer) Please click here.
2007 Nov.20 a second revision -- On the page "Evaluating this draft" added item 9. which was a list of proposed modifications which the designer of this draft (working towards a proposal to the Board) is still learning how to implement. Also a list of proposed modifications which may be alternatives rather than improvements. If the last are received in specific form, as exact text and any desired images, optionally with any needed design specifications, if they involve a reasonable amount of work to implement, they will be posted also to the web site so our members can compare alternative designs and alternative goals. (Lloyd)
2007 Nov.19 -- On the page "Art Inspired by Rock Art", where there are links to artists, included a small image to give a better flavor of the kind of art each does. Suggestion for this addition, and images used there, from Marglyph Berrier. [18 JUne, 2008 This page no longer part of the ARARA web site.]
2007 Nov.17 -- Added the 1998 opinion piece by Leigh Marymor, former chair of the Conservation Committee, on whether to make known sites which are publicly accessible, and how to manage visitation. Click here.
2007 Nov.17 -- Linked from the page for Spanish documents to the second document we have available. Click here.
2007 Nov.11 -- New version of the "Order Form" for ARARA publications. Not every ideal feature yet implemented. Click here. (Lloyd)
2007 Nov.11 -- The page "Members by State" is revised to show that although the largest absolute numbers of ARARA members are in California, which is a very populous state, the largest numbers of ARARA members per million of total state population are in New Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and (?)Utah.. (Lloyd) Click here.
2007 Nov.7-8 -- Added content to the page "Success Stories", and linked to it also from the page for Well-Managed sites and from the page "Volunteer!" (new page name suggested by Leigh Marymor), items so far by Leigh Marymor, Mark & Billo, and Solveig Turpin. Click here.
2007 Oct. 31 -- Added to the page "Recording and Image Enhancement" under the paragraph for "Photoshop" the most basic operations for adjusting contrast levels and for eliminating most of the extra color contrast which that often brings with it. Click here. (Lloyd, information from Robert Mark.)
2007 Oct. 30-31 -- Images of rock art are now being added in a sidebar to the left of many pages. If any users have screen space only 800 pixels wide, they can still see all of the text and use a vertical scroll bar. To see the rock art images they would use the horizontal scroll bar. Users with screen space at least 1024 pixels wide (almost everyone now) can see both text and images with no need for horizontal scrolling. Because of the small size of these ornamental images, single motifs and simpler panels are preferable here. With time, we can of course replace with other images. Images are selected to give an idea of "styles", or better "cultures" (recognizing connections with archaeology and ethnohistory), and to the extent possible, images may be selected to have relevance to specific pages on this site, to support unconscious learning. (Lloyd Anderson)
Here is a list:
Barrier Canyon Culture -- "Research" page here.
Bear Gulch and shield-bearers -- "Who Made It" page here, and briefer form on this "Latest Changes" page, "Spanish"
Butler Wash, San Juan Anthropomorphs -- "Member Organizations in USA" page, for some reason currently not displaying them, a subset are available at the World Organizations page here,
Gallisteo -- "Archaeological Societies" page here (and the same two with enhanced contrast)
Nine Mile Canyon -- "Action Alerts page" here. This page has more and some slightly larger images if you wish to test download times.
Pahranagat Culture -- "Photo Galleries" page here.
Stories on Stone exhibit photographs -- "Understanding Rock Art" page here (used by permission of Robert Mark and Evelyn Billo)
Toquima Cave -- "Management and Protection" page here.
V-bar-V -- "Well-Managed-Sites" page here.
White River Narrows -- "Calendar" page here.
2007 Oct. 28 -- replaced AIRA vol.21 index with IRAC 1994, AIRA Volume 21 (Peggy Whitehead)
2007 Oct. 26 -- added sample of a left sidebar where images can be placed. The total width of this page is now 1024 pixels instead of 800 pixels. The 1024 consists of 780 (text content) plus 224 (images on the left) plus 20 (space for right scroll bar). No users have yet reported being restricted to small screens 800 pixels wide. But if any do have such a limitation, they can drag their pages so the right margin is at the right edge of the screen, and both the text portion and a scroll bar will then always remain visible. (Lloyd Anderson)
2007 Oct. 24 -- added this page to track Latest Changes and Additions, accessible from home page
(Lloyd Anderson)
2007 Oct. 24 -- added content to Book List for Kids & Educators, accessible from page "For Kids" here .
(Sherry Eberwein)
2007 Oct. 24 -- added Guidelines for Artists Using Rock Art Images, accessible from page for Standing Documents
(Jane Kolber, verified by President Mavis Greer)
2007 Oct. 22 -- added to the Photo Galleries page here a link to Wm. Hyder's collection of photos for California sites.
(Lloyd Anderson)