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Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database
Created by Leigh Marymor through the Museum of Northern Arizona, the Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database compiles literature about rock art into a searchable, online bibliography, providing free access to more than 40,000 citations.
Rock Art of the Grand Canyon Region
Over the past 25 years, Don Christensen, Jerry Dickey, and Steven M. Freers have worked in cooperation with the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon National Park, Bureau of Land Management/Arizona Strip, and the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument to analyze the hard data and to form a comprehensive overview of the 5,000 years of Native American art painted and engraved on the walls and boulders within the greater Grand Canyon region. This visually stunning book opens a window to the past within the majestic Grand Canyon region rarely seen by the millions of visitors who visit this area annually. It is a feast to both the serious rock art researcher and to the general public who may not be aware of the enticing and elaborately rich rock art found in some of the more remote areas within this spectacular landscape.
Rock Art of the World
Jeffrey F. LaFave has compiled a comprehensive overview of global rock art. A veritable encyclopedia of rock art images and rock art research, with 322 color photographs, over 100 illustrations, and hundreds of scholarly citations.
DStretch
Jon Harman’s DStretch software can bring out faint pictographs that are invisible to the naked eye. It works on digital camera images. No special filters or lighting are needed. Available for camera, android, and iphone.
Sanity Silversmithing, New Mexico
"My work is inspired by actual images made by ancient peoples. Looking for petroglyphs and pictographs is an adventure. I'm inspired by these magical images. I feel like the ancient artists are trying to communicate with us. I try to make each piece a spiritual creation as well as an artistic one."
American Rock Art Research Association
The American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA) is a diverse community of members with wide-ranging interests who are dedicated to rock art preservation, research, and education in order to communicate to a broad audience the significance of rock art as a non-renewable resource of enduring cultural value and an important expression of our shared cultural heritage.
White Mountain Research Center
The White Mountain Research Center strives to support, and contribute to, research and education in the White Mountains, the Owens Valley, the Sierra Nevada, and a wide range of other environments in California and the Great Basin. We seek to build upon our long legacy of enhancing understanding of the natural world, across a broad array of disciplines, in ways that are immediately useful to local communities, regionally, and globally.