ARARA NEWS
Annual Conference
May 22-25, with registration beginning as early as 4 PM on Thursday
May 21 in the California Grill at the Doubletree Hotel. Participants
in Friday field trips must attend a pre-trip meeting at 5 PM, also in
the California Grill. A public event featuring Chumash storytellers
begins at 6:30 – see details below.
Conference Information
Check our website, http://www.arara.org/
preliminary program and abstracts. Registration forms are there too,
in the Conference Packet. It is not too late to register and request
field trips.
Doubletree Extends the ARARA Rate
If you have not made your hotel reservation, no problem, the
Doubletree has extended the ARARA rate of $99 until the start of the
conference.
2009 ARARA Awards
We are proud to announce and honor our winners
Wellman Award for Distinguished Service
William Hyder, California
Bock Award for Extraordinary Achievement
Donald E. Weaver, Jr., Arizona
Conservation and Preservation Award
Nine Mile Canyon Coalition,
National Trust for Historic Preservation, and
Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance.
Education Award
Eileen Gose, Colorado
We hope you join us at the Conference Banquet, Sunday May 24 for the
presentation of the awards. There will also be a special presentation
by John R. Johnson, Curator of Anthropology at the Santa Barbara
Museum of Natural History.
ARARA Blue Badge Holders
Members, who have attended the last several conferences and have kept
their ARARA badge holder, please remember to bring it with you to
Bakersfield and help ARARA save funds by re-cycling. We would also
like other styles of badge holders (generally 4x4 size) that you may
have accumulated over the years. Look for the collection box at
registration.
ARARA General Meeting Agenda:
If you have a topic you would like to see on the agenda of the
business meeting, please email it to Evelyn Billo at
ebillo@... with Agenda in the subject line.
Auction Donations Needed
If you have rock art related books, clothing, jewelry, or other items
to donate, look for Carol Garner's donation table in the vendor's room
at the Doubletree Hotel. If you know of any merchants who might donate
a hotel stay, restaurant meal, hiking or camping implement, gift
certificate, let her know. Be imaginative and help increase the sprit
of the auction by donating that one items that everyone wants.
For donation letters and forms, contact Carol Garner at
Gypscholar@... or give her a call at
(H)
212-679-6976
or (C)646-338-3995.All donations are tax-deductible.
Voices of Our Ancestors, Speaking Through Stone
This event is sponsored by the ARARA Education Committee
May 21, 2009 6:30 p.m.
Room 1A of the City Centre Building, 1300 17th Street, Bakersfield, CA
Alan Salazar and Julie Tumamait-Stenslie, Chumash storytellers will
share their culture’s traditions through story, song, and blessings.
The stories are woven into rock art images. Many of these stories have
been lost through time. We will hear some of those that remain. This
event is an ideal family event.
Alan Salazar and Julie Tumamait-Stenslie are well-known Chumash
storytellers. Mr. Salazar has been working with groups for over 25
years, sharing Chumash culture and beliefs. His Chumash name is Spirit
Hawk and he is of Chumash and Tatavian descent. He assisted with the
rebuilding of a seaworthy tomol, the traditional plank canoe that
sailed to the Channel Islands in 2001 and 2004. Ms. Tumamait-Stenslie
has served on California’s Native American Heritage Commission and as
a cultural resources consultant throughout Chumash territory along the
southern California coast. She is also working on learning and
preserving the Chumash language.
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
A New Look at Fremont Anthropomorphs
A Lecture By Polly Schaafsma
May 8, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
College of Eastern Utah Campus, Little Theatre in the Old Student
Activity Center,
451 East 400 North, Price, Utah
Lecture is free and open to the public.
Colorado Rock Art Association Symposium
May 15–17, 2009
Cortez, Colorado
The website has been updated with the program and other information.
http://www.coloradorockart.
Conservation for Rock Art and Outdoor Objects
June 18, 2009
Claire Dean will present a workshop on acceptable and unacceptable
conservation strategies for preserving rock art and outdoor objects.
This workshop has been scheduled in conjunction with the Arizona
Historic Preservation Conference in Phoenix.
You may register for the workshop through the conference website:
http://azpreservation.com/
XXIII International Symposium of Valcamonica on “Prehistoric and
Tribal Art”,
October 28–November 2, 2009
Valcamonica, Italy.
This multidisciplinary meeting will exchange information from various
aspects of the human and social sciences.
For information contact valcamonica.symposium@gmail.
Voice of America video and press report on Nine Mile Canyon
The report can be seen online at:
http://www.voanews.com/
or on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
La Pintura
Call for volunteer to help with La Pintura digital layout. Jenny Huang
has done a wonderful job and can help with details of the process.
Send e-mail to ARARABoard@... .
Comb Ridge Heritage Initiative Project
Southeastern Utah, Bluff
University of Colorado and BLM
The Comb Ridge Project is looking for volunteers to spend one or more
days sketching rock art panels in the San Juan River – Comb Ridge area
between now and May 31, 2009. As part of our ongoing Comb Ridge
survey, we are trying to line up volunteers to help with this daunting
task. Recording materials and tools will be provided, and some help
with gas and limited subsistence support is negotiable. We have a
number of interested people, but dates and specific sites are open.
Contact Winston Hurst,
435-678-3305,winstonhurst@...
Sears Point Rock Art Recording Project Extended.
Southern Arizona
If interested in volunteering, either the first two weeks of December
2009 or the first two weeks of January 2010, email Evelyn Billo at
ebillo@... with Sears Point in the Subject Line.
REMINDERS AND REPEAT ANNOUNCEMENTS
------Continuing Events------
The Rock Paintings of Hueco Tanks
Deer Valley Rock Art Center
Phoenix, Arizona
Continues through September 2009
This exhibit showcases a stunning array of rock art photographs from
the Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso, Texas. The
photographer, Clay Martin, won the 1997 American Rock Art Research
Association’s Oliver Award for Excellence in Rock Art Photography for
this photo essay on Hueco Tanks. Martin’s nineteen photographs depict
some of the 3,000 pictographs found at Hueco Tanks. Several different
Native American groups created these rock paintings. They date as far
back as 6,000 B.C. In recent years, many of these pictographs have
been vandalized. Martin felt a sense of urgency to document the rock
art while it remains intact. His breathtaking photographs serve both
as a documentary record and as an artistic work. The photographs also
pay tribute to the original rock painters and allude to the ambiance
of the ancient setting.
http://dvrac.asu.edu/?q=about/
Utah Rock Art Research Association, URARA, Symposium Call for
Presentations
29th Annual Symposium, Cedar City, Utah
October 9–12, 2009 (Columbus Day Weekend)
Deadline for abstracts is August 9, 2009. All abstracts must be
limited to 150 words. Please send abstracts and inquiries to David
Sucec, at email: bcsproject@... and Diane Orr at email:
beecherllc@..., or mail to: David Sucec at 832 Sego Avenue, SLC,
Utah 84102 (phone
801-359-6904).------May------
Island in the Plains Conference
Annual Meeting
Custer, South Dakota
May 9-10, 2009
http://www.sdhistory.org/HP/
Coso Petroglyph Tours
The Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, California is conducting tours of
the Little Petroglyph Canyon.
May 24, 30, 31, 2009
http://www.maturango.org/
Contact: Ms. Fran Van Valkenburgh, at
760-375-6900 between 9 a.m. and5 p.m. Monday through Friday
Field Methods in Rock Art
May 11–29, 2009
Co-offered by SHUMLA and Texas State University
Taught by Dr. Carolyn E. Boyd, author of "Rock Art of the Lower
Pecos," and Elton R. Prewitt, respected Texas archeologist, this three-
week course provides hands-on training in rock art recording
techniques and many other aspects of archeological field work.
E-mail: programs@...,
Web site: http://www.shumla.org.
------June------
Coso Petroglyph Tours
The Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, California is conducting tours of
the Little Petroglyph Canyon.
June 6, 7
http://www.maturango.org/
Contact: Ms. Fran Van Valkenburgh, at
760-375-6900 between 9 a.m. and5 p.m. Monday through Friday
Conference on Archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest
An endorsed event by the Cultural Astronomy Working Group of the
International Year of Astronomy observances, the conference includes
workshops, presentations and tours.
Oral and poster presentations will cover a number of significant
locations including the Chaco Canyon World Heritage Site, the
prehistoric astronomy of the Hohokam, Mogollan and Sinagua cultures,
Chimney Rock Colorado, Mesa Verde National Park and more. Presenters
will include Anna Sofaer, J. McKim Malville, E.C. Krupp, Von Del
Chamberlain among other notable researchers.
The purpose of the CAASW is to advance the study and practice of
archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest in all its aspects. The
CAASW is committed to recognizing significant contributions to
knowledge and the importance of research, professional standards and
excellence in the study of archaeoastronomy, effective dissemination
and presentation of archaeoastronomical knowledge, and innovation and
originality of approach.
Camp Verde, Arizona
June 11–13, 2009
Contact: administrator@...
http://www.caasw.org
IFRAO Congress 2009
Global Rock Art
Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil
June 29 to July 3, 2009
www.globalrockart2009.ab-
If you wish to receive information about traveling, lodging and other
traveling issues, send an e-mail to maxim_jaffe@... and he
will add your name to the IFRAO_Global list of information.
------July------
15th International Congress of Speleology (ICS/UIS)
(meets every 4 years)
Kerrville, Texas
July 19-26, 2009
http://www.ics2009.us/
------August------
2009 Pecos Conference
Cortez, Colorado
August 6¬¬¬¬¬¬–9, 2009
www.pecos.
------September------
No known events
------October------
Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference
Biennial Meeting
October 7-11, 2009
Gunnison, Colorado
Utah Rock Art Research Association (URARA)
Annual Meeting
Cedar City, Utah
October 9-12
http://www.utahrockart.org/
SHUMLA School Tour
Visit Lower Pecos Rock Art Sites with Dr. Jean Clottes
October 11–16, 2009
Call
(432) 292-4848, or e-mailprograms@....
Plains Anthropological Conference
Annual Meeting
October 14-17, 2009
Norman, Oklahoma
http://www.ou.edu/cas/archsur/
Texas Archeological Society
Annual Meeting
Del Rio, Texas
October 23–25, 2009
Dr. Jean Clottes will be the one of the speakers at the Friday night
Public Forum, and will be the banquet speaker Saturday night.
IFRAO Congress, 2010
Pleistocene Art of the World
Foix, France
September 2010
http://www.arterupestre.es/
International Rock Art Congress, 2012
Archaeology and Rock Art - 25 years SIARB
La Paz, Bolivia
June 2012
http://www.siarb-bolivia.org
http://www.siarbcongress.org/
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