Perspectives on Differences in Rock Art - Jan Magne Gjerde
Approaching Rock Art Regions: Trans-Pecos Texas (USA) as an Illustrative Case Study
Perspectives on Differences in Rock Art - Jan Magne Gjerde
Jamie Hampson [+]
University of Exeter
Jamie Hampson is a Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Department at the University of Exeter. He has a PhD and an MPhil in archaeology from the University of Cambridge, and BA (Honours) in history from the University of Oxford. Jamie works primarily on rock art, identity, and heritage projects in western Australia, southern Africa, and the Greater Southwest USA. His most recent book is Rock Art and Regional Identity: a Comparative Perspective.
Description
Many indigenous groups in North America had – and sometimes still have – ritual specialists who negotiated a tiered cosmos (in one form or another). An analysis of this provides an effective framework for addressing the meanings and motivations behind Trans-Pecos pictographs and petroglyphs. This chapter sheds light on this hermeneutic framework, but also considers the nuances within the Trans-Pecos rock art corpus, and what we mean when we talk about rock art ‘regions’.