a groundbreaking researcher on Lower Pecos rock art, and Elton Prewitt, an archeologist with long-established experience in the area, this is an opportunity to study with two remarkable educators.

This course, offered through the Offices of Extension Studies at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, earns either three or six hours of undergraduate, or three hours of graduate level credit. Participants learn:

• How to establish a field research design and field data collection protocols.
• Rock art recording methods, including photography, mapping, sketching, and written inventories.
• Laboratory procedures, record keeping, cataloguing, and records curation.
• Rock art data analysis--formulating and testing hypotheses.
• Current theories regarding the meaning and function of rock art.
• Archaeology of the Lower Pecos, hunter-gatherer lifeways, and the foraging adaptation.

And you will have an incredible time in the lovely Lower Pecos region of Texas while doing so.

For more information contact the SHUMLA office at info@... or 432.292.4848.

Click here to read the blog for the 2007 class, or here to read about 2006.

SHUMLA is now accepting reservations for the October 2008 Pecos Experience: The Art and Archeology of the Lower Pecos. This week-long program gives participants the opportunity to visit spectacular rock art sites, accompanied by SHUMLA's Executive Director
Dr. Carolyn Boyd and a visiting rock art expert. Taking that role in 2008 is Dr. Jo McDonald of Australia, recognized as one of the leading rock-art researchers in Australia.

Be part of the discussions between Drs. Boyd and McDonald as they explore ideas for research and interpretation of these images. Learn about prehistoric lifeways: create paint from local ingredients, taste food plants cooked in an earth oven, use an atlatl to throw spears, discover fiber arts using local plant fiber, and other examples of the technologies used by Native Americans to survive in this arid environment.

For registration information click here, call the SHUMLA office at 432-292-4848, or E-mail programs@....