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Accepted Paper:

Historiography of rock art research in west Texas and beyond  
Jamie Hampson (University of Cambridge)

Paper short abstract:

Rock art researchers helped shape the discipline of archaeology. I consider North American rock art historiography and focus on interpretations of a famous multicultural site west of the Pecos River, Texas

Paper long abstract:

Histories of North American archaeology often suggest that, until recently, systematic studies of rock art were non-existent. As early as the nineteenth century, however, rock art researchers not only acquired both archaeological and anthropological data and knowledge, they were also among the first to define the intellectual concepts that continue to drive problem-oriented research today.

In this paper, I do not suggest that there was (or still is) a tidy, single factor that unites rock art researchers. By outlining the aims and successes of some of the early North American studies, however, I demonstrate that rock art researchers helped shape the discipline of archaeology. I situate the few studies that focus on the rock art of west Texas within the broader, continent-wide historiography, and use multicultural Meyers Springs - one of only a handful of well-documented rock art sites west of the Lower Pecos River - as a case study.

Panel S10
The forgotten continent? Theorizing North America for UK-based researchers
  Session 1