Program

American Rock Art Research Association

25th Annual Conference

May 23, 24, 25, 1998

Local Host:
Maturango Museum

Ridgecrest, California
Kerr-McGee Center

Schedule of Events

Friday, May 22

12:30 PM Board Meeting, Flight Deck Room at the Heritage Inn. 
4:00 Vendor Room open for vendor setup 
(Fossil Falls/Ballarat room and the Red Rock Canyon/Chimney Peak room
at the Kerr-McGee Center).
4:30 Registration Table Opens. Off the main lobby, Heritage Inn. 
7:00 Registration Closed. 
7:00 Member Reception. Maturango Museum.
100 E. Flores.
9:00 Reception Ends. 

Saturday, May 23

7:30 AM Registration Table Opens, Kerr-McGee Center. 
Presenter preparation room open (Ridgecrest Room - Kerr-McGee). 
8:00 Vendor Room Open 
NOTE: Vendor Room will be open during breaks, during the lunch hour, 
and until 5:30 after the last paper session. 

8:30 Welcome to Ridgecrest

8:35 Welcome from Capt. John Langford, Executive Officer,
China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station.

8:45 Presentation of the Oliver Award for Rock Art Photography to Alain Briot.

Western U.S. Rock Art Session.

Donna Gillette, Moderator.

9:15 Eric W. Ritter
Boundary, Style and Function: Extrapolations from the Keno, Oregon Pictographs.

9:35 Clayton Lebow
Results of Preliminary Archaeological Testing at Swordfish Cave (CA-SBA-503), A Rock Art Site on Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

9:55 Rick Bury
Too Many Shamans.

10:15 Lynda McNeil
Ute Indian Bear Dance and Glyphs

10:35 Break/Vendor Room Open

11:05 Dwayne Waseta
Navajo Rock Art.

11:25 Mark M. Campbell
Three Pictograph Sites and Rock Baby, What's the Connection?

11:45 Peter J. Pilles, Jr.
Verde Incised: A Possible Apache Petroglyph Style in the Verde Valley, Arizona.

12:05 Lunch Break/Vendor Room Open

Education Committee meets in the Ridgecrest Room of the Kerr-McGee Center - Pick up a quick lunch at a nearby fast food (Carl's JR., Taco Bell or KFC) and come join the meeting. the meeting will be continued on Sunday noon, if needed.

Coso Symposium.

David S. Whitley, Moderator.

1:30 PM William D. Hyder and David S. Whitley
Introduction

1:40 Mark Pahuta
Introduction of new video on the Coso Range.

2:10 David S. Whitley and Ron Dorn
The Vision Quest in the Coso Range.

2:35 Amy J. Gilreath
Petroglyph and Motif Distributions in the Coso Rock Art Landmark.

3:00 Caroline Maddock
A Study of the Coso Anthropomorphs.

3:25 Break/Vendor Room Open

3:45 Don Christensen, Jerry Dickey, and David Lee
Regional Variation in Rock Art Styles in the Southern Great Basin: A View from the East Mojave.

4:10 Sue Ann Monteleone and Alanah Woody
Changing Light on the Cosos.

4:35 Larry Loendorf
Possible Relationships Between Dinwoody Petroglyphs and Coso Petroglyphs.

5:00 Adjourn/Vendor Room Open .

5:30 Vendor Room Closed.

6:00 Live Auction - Saturday night with a no-host bar in the back
patio of the Ferris Restaurant and the adjoining pool area of the Heritage Inn.

8:00 Conservation Committee meeting in the Flight Deck Room at the
Heritage Inn.

Sunday, May 24

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 (Kerr-McGee Center).

9:30 Adjourn Business Meeting

Break/Vendor Room Open

Rock Art: Fresh Perspectives.

Sharon Urban, Moderator.

10:00 Peter Blystone
The Spirit Walls of Nine Mile Canyon.

10:20 Steven J. Waller, David Lubman and Brenda Kiser
Digital Acoustic Recording Techniques Applied to Rock Art Sites.

10:40 Kerri Mich and Milford Fletcher
The Resurvey of Petroglyph National Monument: A New Approach to an Old Problem.

10:55 Ken Hedges
Line Art from Photographs: Six Case Studies.

11:10 Robert Mark and Evelyn Billo
A Stitch in Time: Digital Panoramas and Mosaics.

11:25 Janet Lever
The Kinetics of Rock Art—A Personal View.

11:40 Zhang Ya-Sha
Classification of Tibetan Rock Art.

12:00 Lunch/Vendor Room Open

Education Committee may meet in the Ridgecrest Room of the Kerr-McGee Center if needed (announcement will be made at the Saturday noon meeting.)

General Rock Art Session.

Donna Yoder, Moderator.

1:30 Dale W. Ritter
Culture Contact Rock Records.

1:50 W. Rex Weeks
Early Historic Rock Art: An Example of Appalachian Folk Culture.

2:10 Michael K. Laentzsch
Cupules and Rings: A Worldwide Phenomenon.

2:30 Jack Steinbring
Elemental Forms in the Peopling of the Americas.

2:50 Ekkehart Malotki
The Use of Hallucinogenic Plants by Archaic-Basketmaker Rock Art Creators of the Palavayu, Northeast Arizona: The Case for Datura.

3:10 Break/Vendor Room Open

3:30 Mark Mitchell and J. Claire Dean
Rock Art Site Management and Conservation on the Comanche National Grassland, Southeastern Colorado.

3:45 David Valentine and Arlene Benson
Off the Wall in the Toiyabe.

4:00 Gary J. Moreschini
Rangeview 5FN721, The Archaeology, the Rock Art, the Astronomy.

4:15 Mavis Greer and John Greer
Southwestern Montana Rock Art.

4:30 Todd Bostwick
The Hour-Glass Anthropomorphs of the South Mountains, Arizona.

4:45 E. Gene Riggs
Jornada Style Rock Art: A “Western Outlier” in the Chiricahua Mountains of SE Arizona.

5:00 Terry Sayther
Rock Art of Northeastern Mexico: The Petroglyphs of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon

5:15 Adjourn

7:00 Banquet No Host Bar Opens: NOTE: Kerr McGee Center

7:30 Banquet Begins

Speaker: Larry Loendorf and William D. Hyder
The Role of Avocational Archaeologists in Rock Art Research

Monday, May 25

Field trips will begin at times as published in La Pintura.