L Sundstrom
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 16699 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | L Sundstrom |
| NOMBRES | L |
| APELLIDO | Sundstrom |
| FIRMA | SUNDSTROM L |
| AFILIACIONES | Star Technology and Research (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6176-3747 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Toward decolonizing rock art research
Biases in North American rock art research have privileged Western data, approaches, and values. These biases include the concept of unilinear cultural evolution, untested assumptions about division of labour by sex, amplifying archaeological data over ethnography and Indigenous knowledge, focusing on the visual aspects of rock art rather than associated behaviours, equating Native American rock art to fine art in Western cultures, and assumption…
When Charcoal Was Hung”
A petroglyph showing a hanging scene is incised at DgOv-2 at Writing-on-Stone in southern Alberta. Photographed in 1897 and recorded in 1976 as part of a wider documentation of rock art in the provincial park, the subject of the image remained unknown. Recent research and a better understanding of the Biographic art lexicon suggests this image documents the execution of the Blood (Káínawa) warrior Charcoal (Si’k-okskitsis) following a prolonged m…
Don’t fence them in
Riding to the rescue
Depictions of two riders mounted on a single horse appear in Plains Biographic rock art at five sites. Comparison of these images with late nineteenth century Plains Indian drawings on hide and paper indicates that the pictographs and petroglyphs commemorate instances in which mounted warriors rescued comrades who had been unhorsed in battle. Ethnographic material confirms that several Plains Indian societies held this deed in high esteem. These …
Where's the Mutton
Francis et alia (2022) propose that the Sheep Mountain net (48PA1022) was used for large game; however, they present no data to support this proposed function. The size and configuration of the net fall within the range for rabbit nets recorded elsewhere
The Sheep Mountain Animal Net Revisited
A juniper fiber net discovered in a cave near Cody, Wyoming, had been radiocarbon dated at 8860 BP (6910 ± 170 BC; RL-396) in 1986. Reanalysis and four additional AMS radiocarbon dates indicate an age younger than 1300 cal BP. Net metrics are consistent with archaeological and ethnographic examples identified as rabbit nets
Ambrose Bierce’s Indian inscriptions
Western History is often understood primarily from the perspective of the United States westward expansion as reflected in the concept of manifest destiny. Rarely do we have the opportunity to view this period through the eyes of native artists who were fighting to maintain ownership of their ancestral lands. These two historical currents came together in 1866 with the Hazen Expedition, when the expedition’s cartographer, Ambrose Bierce, recorded…
Crow Indian Rock Art
The Great Plains and Mississippi Valley
Environment The Great Plains and Mississippi Valley encompass most of eastern North America, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, including the Ohio River drainage, the Appalachians, and the Missouri River Basin. This vast area encompasses significant geomorphological, biotic and climatic diversity. Much of the midcontinent had been glaciated, characterised today by level to gently rolling topography. Uplifts and more heavily dissected regions make…
Rock Art in Situ
Un-Tranced
Despite its current popularity, the neuroscience model of rock art interpretation reveals little of the ancient artists' motivations and messages. Defining all non-bureaucratized religions as shamanism and then linking all hunter-gatherer art to this poorly defined überreligion leaves one to conclude that the art is shamanic because it was produced in a culture different from our own, albeit using universal images. This article argues for a style…
Digital infra-red photography for recording painted rock art
Here is a new application of infra-red photography with a digital camera to record rock art. The need to make full and accurate records of the images, without touching (and thus degrading) the rock, requires a method of remote mapping. Trials with digital IR reported here are very promising and especially useful for painted rock art
Women in War
Women are not commonly drawn in northern Plains rock art, but they do occur in both the Ceremonial and Biographic traditions. When shown in Ceremonial rock art they appear in structure and content roles equivalent to those of males. In contrast, in later Biographic art they appear in various roles—from vanquished enemy to kidnapped wife—but these are nearly always subordinate to the male actors in these scenes. The newly recorded La Barge Bluffs …
Steel Awls for Stone Age Plainswomen
Archaeological, ethnographic, and historic data suggest the presence in Protohistoric times of a women s ceremonial tradition among Dakota and Lakota groups. The tradition involved creation of distinctive rock art, including deeply ground ungulate tracks, vulvas, and hand-and footprints, along with numerous abraded grooves commonly referred to as tool-sharpening grooves. Production of this rock art was related to vision experiences involving Doub…
Cheyenne Pronghorn Procurement and Ceremony
Ethnographic literature shows that historic Cheyenne pronghorn trapping was closely intertwined with ceremonial activity. These procurement and ceremonial activities left behind distinctive archaeological remains, including hunting camps, drive lines, pits, stone and bone alignments, and possibly rock art. The ceremonies are linked through oral tradition to specific landscape features
Plains Anthropological Society Student Paper Competition
"Plains Anthropological Society Student Paper Competition." Plains Anthropologist, 44(168), p. 208
Rock Art and Native Americans
As highly visible features of the archaeological landscape, rock art sites require special management aconsiderations. Native Americans contacted as part of a state-wide rock art survey in 1992-93 had firm, and sometimes surprising, views regarding such issues as opening sites for public visitation, interpretive materials, and site preservation. Public education, site protection, and studies of oral traditions concerning rock art sites were viewe…
International Rock Art Congress
Attention
Tribal Affiliation of Shield Petroglyphs from the Black Hills and Cave Hills
This study compares 22 shield designs from Black Hills and Cave Hills rock art with 314 ethnographically recorded shield designs. Based on these comparisons, 11 of the petroglyphs were identified as Cheyenne, two as possibly Cheyenne, one as Lakota or Cheyenne, and one as either Cheyenne or Crow. The seven remaining designs could not be assigned a cultural affiliation
Smallpox Used Them up
Northern Plains Indian winter counts (chronologies) provide a record of epidemic disease in the area from 1682 to 1920. These indicate that epidemics occurred on average every 5.7 years for the area and every 9.7-15.8 years for individual groups. Disease outbreaks tended to follow episodes of famine or disease and tended to be followed by episodes of abundance of game when human mortality had been high. Epidemics preceded sustained contact with n…
Crazy Mule’S Maps Of The Upper Missouri, 1877-1880
Two maps from the Joslyn Art Museum are identified as the work of John Crazy Mule, a northern Cheyenne scout who served at Fort Keogh, Montana Territory, from 1877 to about 1891. The maps were drawn in pencil and ink on ledger paper between 1877 and 1880. The first shows the Yellowstone and Milk drainages and is a record of Crazy Mule's accomplishments as a government scout. These include the Lame Deer fight and the capture of Chief Joseph's Nez …
Mirror of heaven
The Black Hills are a mountain group on the northern plains of North America considered sacred by several Native American groups. Several groups shared a conceptual association between Black Hills landscape features, constellations, seasonal movements and mythology. These groups include the Lakotas, Cheyennes, Kiowas and Kiowa‐Apaches. Beliefs about the sacred geography of the area were transferred from group to group as new peoples entered the a…
A Simple Mathematical Procedure for Estimating the Adequacy of Site Survey Strategies
A set of easily calculated formulas estimate the probability that archaeological sites of a given size and shape were intersected by survey transects. Estimates derived from the formulas can be used by archaeologists in planning surveys and by cultural resource management personnel in evaluating survey proposals and results
Archaic Hunting Practices Depicted In A Northwestern Plains Rock Art Style
A collection of about 75 panels of pecked rock art from the southern Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming, includes detailed depictions of Archaic period communal game hunts. The rock art illustrates use of artificial enclosures, atlatls, and other hunting paraphernalia. Humans in costumes or disguises are also included in the scenes. The communal hunting techniques detailed in the rock art imply a social organization capable of maintaining a hi…
Steel Awls for Stone Age Plainswomen
Archaeological, ethnographic, and historic data suggest the presence in Protohistoric times of a women s ceremonial tradition among Dakota and Lakota groups. The tradition involved creation of distinctive rock art, including deeply ground ungulate tracks, vulvas, and hand-and footprints, along with numerous abraded grooves commonly referred to as tool-sharpening grooves. Production of this rock art was related to vision experiences involving Doub…
Mirror of heaven
The Black Hills are a mountain group on the northern plains of North America considered sacred by several Native American groups. Several groups shared a conceptual association between Black Hills landscape features, constellations, seasonal movements and mythology. These groups include the Lakotas, Cheyennes, Kiowas and Kiowa‐Apaches. Beliefs about the sacred geography of the area were transferred from group to group as new peoples entered the a…
Smallpox Used Them up
Northern Plains Indian winter counts (chronologies) provide a record of epidemic disease in the area from 1682 to 1920. These indicate that epidemics occurred on average every 5.7 years for the area and every 9.7-15.8 years for individual groups. Disease outbreaks tended to follow episodes of famine or disease and tended to be followed by episodes of abundance of game when human mortality had been high. Epidemics preceded sustained contact with n…
Women in War
Women are not commonly drawn in northern Plains rock art, but they do occur in both the Ceremonial and Biographic traditions. When shown in Ceremonial rock art they appear in structure and content roles equivalent to those of males. In contrast, in later Biographic art they appear in various roles—from vanquished enemy to kidnapped wife—but these are nearly always subordinate to the male actors in these scenes. The newly recorded La Barge Bluffs …
Cheyenne Pronghorn Procurement and Ceremony
Ethnographic literature shows that historic Cheyenne pronghorn trapping was closely intertwined with ceremonial activity. These procurement and ceremonial activities left behind distinctive archaeological remains, including hunting camps, drive lines, pits, stone and bone alignments, and possibly rock art. The ceremonies are linked through oral tradition to specific landscape features
Tribal Affiliation of Shield Petroglyphs from the Black Hills and Cave Hills
This study compares 22 shield designs from Black Hills and Cave Hills rock art with 314 ethnographically recorded shield designs. Based on these comparisons, 11 of the petroglyphs were identified as Cheyenne, two as possibly Cheyenne, one as Lakota or Cheyenne, and one as either Cheyenne or Crow. The seven remaining designs could not be assigned a cultural affiliation
Digital infra-red photography for recording painted rock art
Here is a new application of infra-red photography with a digital camera to record rock art. The need to make full and accurate records of the images, without touching (and thus degrading) the rock, requires a method of remote mapping. Trials with digital IR reported here are very promising and especially useful for painted rock art
Crazy Mule’S Maps Of The Upper Missouri, 1877-1880
Two maps from the Joslyn Art Museum are identified as the work of John Crazy Mule, a northern Cheyenne scout who served at Fort Keogh, Montana Territory, from 1877 to about 1891. The maps were drawn in pencil and ink on ledger paper between 1877 and 1880. The first shows the Yellowstone and Milk drainages and is a record of Crazy Mule's accomplishments as a government scout. These include the Lame Deer fight and the capture of Chief Joseph's Nez …
The Sheep Mountain Animal Net Revisited
A juniper fiber net discovered in a cave near Cody, Wyoming, had been radiocarbon dated at 8860 BP (6910 ± 170 BC; RL-396) in 1986. Reanalysis and four additional AMS radiocarbon dates indicate an age younger than 1300 cal BP. Net metrics are consistent with archaeological and ethnographic examples identified as rabbit nets
A Simple Mathematical Procedure for Estimating the Adequacy of Site Survey Strategies
A set of easily calculated formulas estimate the probability that archaeological sites of a given size and shape were intersected by survey transects. Estimates derived from the formulas can be used by archaeologists in planning surveys and by cultural resource management personnel in evaluating survey proposals and results
Rock Art and Native Americans
As highly visible features of the archaeological landscape, rock art sites require special management aconsiderations. Native Americans contacted as part of a state-wide rock art survey in 1992-93 had firm, and sometimes surprising, views regarding such issues as opening sites for public visitation, interpretive materials, and site preservation. Public education, site protection, and studies of oral traditions concerning rock art sites were viewe…
Archaic Hunting Practices Depicted In A Northwestern Plains Rock Art Style
A collection of about 75 panels of pecked rock art from the southern Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming, includes detailed depictions of Archaic period communal game hunts. The rock art illustrates use of artificial enclosures, atlatls, and other hunting paraphernalia. Humans in costumes or disguises are also included in the scenes. The communal hunting techniques detailed in the rock art imply a social organization capable of maintaining a hi…
Archaic Hunting Practices Depicted In A Northwestern Plains Rock Art Style
A collection of about 75 panels of pecked rock art from the southern Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming, includes detailed depictions of Archaic period communal game hunts. The rock art illustrates use of artificial enclosures, atlatls, and other hunting paraphernalia. Humans in costumes or disguises are also included in the scenes. The communal hunting techniques detailed in the rock art imply a social organization capable of maintaining a hi…
A Simple Mathematical Procedure for Estimating the Adequacy of Site Survey Strategies
A set of easily calculated formulas estimate the probability that archaeological sites of a given size and shape were intersected by survey transects. Estimates derived from the formulas can be used by archaeologists in planning surveys and by cultural resource management personnel in evaluating survey proposals and results
Crazy Mule’S Maps Of The Upper Missouri, 1877-1880
Two maps from the Joslyn Art Museum are identified as the work of John Crazy Mule, a northern Cheyenne scout who served at Fort Keogh, Montana Territory, from 1877 to about 1891. The maps were drawn in pencil and ink on ledger paper between 1877 and 1880. The first shows the Yellowstone and Milk drainages and is a record of Crazy Mule's accomplishments as a government scout. These include the Lame Deer fight and the capture of Chief Joseph's Nez …
Mirror of heaven
The Black Hills are a mountain group on the northern plains of North America considered sacred by several Native American groups. Several groups shared a conceptual association between Black Hills landscape features, constellations, seasonal movements and mythology. These groups include the Lakotas, Cheyennes, Kiowas and Kiowa‐Apaches. Beliefs about the sacred geography of the area were transferred from group to group as new peoples entered the a…
Smallpox Used Them up
Northern Plains Indian winter counts (chronologies) provide a record of epidemic disease in the area from 1682 to 1920. These indicate that epidemics occurred on average every 5.7 years for the area and every 9.7-15.8 years for individual groups. Disease outbreaks tended to follow episodes of famine or disease and tended to be followed by episodes of abundance of game when human mortality had been high. Epidemics preceded sustained contact with n…
Attention
Tribal Affiliation of Shield Petroglyphs from the Black Hills and Cave Hills
This study compares 22 shield designs from Black Hills and Cave Hills rock art with 314 ethnographically recorded shield designs. Based on these comparisons, 11 of the petroglyphs were identified as Cheyenne, two as possibly Cheyenne, one as Lakota or Cheyenne, and one as either Cheyenne or Crow. The seven remaining designs could not be assigned a cultural affiliation
Plains Anthropological Society Student Paper Competition
"Plains Anthropological Society Student Paper Competition." Plains Anthropologist, 44(168), p. 208
Rock Art and Native Americans
As highly visible features of the archaeological landscape, rock art sites require special management aconsiderations. Native Americans contacted as part of a state-wide rock art survey in 1992-93 had firm, and sometimes surprising, views regarding such issues as opening sites for public visitation, interpretive materials, and site preservation. Public education, site protection, and studies of oral traditions concerning rock art sites were viewe…
International Rock Art Congress
Cheyenne Pronghorn Procurement and Ceremony
Ethnographic literature shows that historic Cheyenne pronghorn trapping was closely intertwined with ceremonial activity. These procurement and ceremonial activities left behind distinctive archaeological remains, including hunting camps, drive lines, pits, stone and bone alignments, and possibly rock art. The ceremonies are linked through oral tradition to specific landscape features
Steel Awls for Stone Age Plainswomen
Archaeological, ethnographic, and historic data suggest the presence in Protohistoric times of a women s ceremonial tradition among Dakota and Lakota groups. The tradition involved creation of distinctive rock art, including deeply ground ungulate tracks, vulvas, and hand-and footprints, along with numerous abraded grooves commonly referred to as tool-sharpening grooves. Production of this rock art was related to vision experiences involving Doub…
Women in War
Women are not commonly drawn in northern Plains rock art, but they do occur in both the Ceremonial and Biographic traditions. When shown in Ceremonial rock art they appear in structure and content roles equivalent to those of males. In contrast, in later Biographic art they appear in various roles—from vanquished enemy to kidnapped wife—but these are nearly always subordinate to the male actors in these scenes. The newly recorded La Barge Bluffs …
Digital infra-red photography for recording painted rock art
Here is a new application of infra-red photography with a digital camera to record rock art. The need to make full and accurate records of the images, without touching (and thus degrading) the rock, requires a method of remote mapping. Trials with digital IR reported here are very promising and especially useful for painted rock art
Rock Art in Situ
Un-Tranced
Despite its current popularity, the neuroscience model of rock art interpretation reveals little of the ancient artists' motivations and messages. Defining all non-bureaucratized religions as shamanism and then linking all hunter-gatherer art to this poorly defined überreligion leaves one to conclude that the art is shamanic because it was produced in a culture different from our own, albeit using universal images. This article argues for a style…
The Great Plains and Mississippi Valley
Environment The Great Plains and Mississippi Valley encompass most of eastern North America, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, including the Ohio River drainage, the Appalachians, and the Missouri River Basin. This vast area encompasses significant geomorphological, biotic and climatic diversity. Much of the midcontinent had been glaciated, characterised today by level to gently rolling topography. Uplifts and more heavily dissected regions make…
Crow Indian Rock Art
Ambrose Bierce’s Indian inscriptions
Western History is often understood primarily from the perspective of the United States westward expansion as reflected in the concept of manifest destiny. Rarely do we have the opportunity to view this period through the eyes of native artists who were fighting to maintain ownership of their ancestral lands. These two historical currents came together in 1866 with the Hazen Expedition, when the expedition’s cartographer, Ambrose Bierce, recorded…
The Sheep Mountain Animal Net Revisited
A juniper fiber net discovered in a cave near Cody, Wyoming, had been radiocarbon dated at 8860 BP (6910 ± 170 BC; RL-396) in 1986. Reanalysis and four additional AMS radiocarbon dates indicate an age younger than 1300 cal BP. Net metrics are consistent with archaeological and ethnographic examples identified as rabbit nets
Don’t fence them in
Riding to the rescue
Depictions of two riders mounted on a single horse appear in Plains Biographic rock art at five sites. Comparison of these images with late nineteenth century Plains Indian drawings on hide and paper indicates that the pictographs and petroglyphs commemorate instances in which mounted warriors rescued comrades who had been unhorsed in battle. Ethnographic material confirms that several Plains Indian societies held this deed in high esteem. These …
Where's the Mutton
Francis et alia (2022) propose that the Sheep Mountain net (48PA1022) was used for large game; however, they present no data to support this proposed function. The size and configuration of the net fall within the range for rabbit nets recorded elsewhere
When Charcoal Was Hung”
A petroglyph showing a hanging scene is incised at DgOv-2 at Writing-on-Stone in southern Alberta. Photographed in 1897 and recorded in 1976 as part of a wider documentation of rock art in the provincial park, the subject of the image remained unknown. Recent research and a better understanding of the Biographic art lexicon suggests this image documents the execution of the Blood (Káínawa) warrior Charcoal (Si’k-okskitsis) following a prolonged m…
Toward decolonizing rock art research
Biases in North American rock art research have privileged Western data, approaches, and values. These biases include the concept of unilinear cultural evolution, untested assumptions about division of labour by sex, amplifying archaeological data over ethnography and Indigenous knowledge, focusing on the visual aspects of rock art rather than associated behaviours, equating Native American rock art to fine art in Western cultures, and assumption…
Archaeology (22 obras) · Geography (18 obras) · History (17 obras) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (13 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (12 obras) · Rock art (11 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 obras) · Art (8 obras) · Geology (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras)