It will encourage newly formed coalitions promoting public archaeology, site stewardship, historic preservation and heritage tourism.ĭuring the current phase of research, DARG investigators observed depictions of leather armored horse and riders. The project will leverage long-term collaborative relationships among professional, tribal and preservation partners. Selected digital products will be shared with public archaeology and education partners. Project data will be organized for review, assessment, and curation by tribal, Federal and State agencies, and professional research partners, and will establish baseline recording protocols for future phases of the project. A team of archaeologists and technical specialists organized by Dominquez Archaeological Research Group (DARG) are revisiting and intensively recording high-value rock art sites in the District using advanced, high-resolution digital imaging and computational image processing techniques. It covers the natural and archaeological history of the northwestern Plains explains rock art forms, techniques, styles, terminology, and dating and offers interpretations of images and compositions.Phase II of this project continues a major preservation, research, and public archaeology initiative for rock art resources in Canyon Pintado National Historic District located south of Rangely, Colorado in Rio Blanco County. Plains Indian Rock Art is the ultimate guide to the art form. The seemingly endless variety of images include humans, animals of all kinds, weapons, masks, mazes, handprints, finger lines, geometric and abstract forms, tally marks, hoofprints, and the wavy lines and starbursts that humans universally associate with trancelike states. Some Plains rock art goes back more than 5,000 years some forms were made continuously over many centuries.Īrchaeologists James Keyser and Michael Klassen show us the origins, diversity, and beauty of Plains rock art. Other sites document the medicine powers and brave deeds of famous warriors. Elders often used rock art, such as complex depictions of hunting, to teach traditional knowledge and skills to the young. In this vast landscape, some rock art sites were clearly intended for communal use others just as clearly mark the occurrence of a private spiritual encounter. On cave walls, glacial boulders, and riverside cliffs, native people recorded their ceremonies, vision quests, battles, and daily activities in the petroglyphs and pictographs they incised, pecked, or painted onto the stone surfaces. Its rolling grasslands and river valleys have nurtured human cultures for thousands of years.
The Plains region that stretches from northern Colorado to southern Alberta and from the Rockies to the western Dakotas is the land of the Cheyenne and the Blackfeet, the Crow and the Sioux.
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