Great Basin Rock Art: Archaeological Perspectives

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Integrating Rock Art with Archaeology: Symbolic Culture as Archaeology -- Part I. Ethnographic Perspectives -- 2. Stories as Old as the Rocks: Rock Art and Myth -- 3. The Mountain Maidu Homeland: Native and Anthropological Interpretations of Cultural Identity -- Part II. Rock Art's Social Contexts Past and Present -- 4. Toward a Gender-Inclusive View of Rock Art in the Northen Great Basin -- 5. Grinding Stone and Pecking Rock: Rock Art of the High Basins, Spanish Springs, Nevada -- 6. A Regional Settlement System Approach to Petroglyphs: Application to the Owyhee Uplands, Southeastern Oregon -- 7. The Study of a Rock Art Site in Southeastern Oregon -- 8. Contexts in the Analysis of Rock Art: Settlement and Rock Art in the Warner Valley Area, Oregon -- 9. Petroglyph Dating on the Massacre Bench -- 10. Rock Art as an Artifact of Religion and Ritual: The Archaeological Construction of Rock Art's Past and Present Social Contexts -- References -- Contributors -- Index.