P Schaafsma
Biographic Data
| ID | 70638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Schaafsma |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaafsma |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAAFSMA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2488-3795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ancestral Pueblo and Historic Ute Rock Art, and Euro-American Inscriptions in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado, USA
In the central Mesa Verde region, rock art occurs on canyon walls and on boulders that are frequently associated with other archaeological remains. Moreover, rock art, together with architecture and pottery, is actually a primary source of archaeological information about the presence of various cultures in the area. It includes paintings and petroglyphs of Ancestral Pueblo farming communities, images and inscriptions made by post-contact Ute and…
Ducks and the Basketmakers in the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest
Rock art may provide insights into the fluid cosmological relationships between people and other living beings. Described here is an iconographic cluster of Basketmaker II-III figures referred to as the “duck complex” with its geographic focus in the central San Juan region of Utah and Arizona. It consists of images of ducks themselves, as well as depictions of anthropomorphs with ducks on their heads that are often associated with fluteplayers, …
Digital documentation and analysis of Native American rock art and Euro-American historical inscriptions from the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado
Detailed photogrammetry and 3D laser scanning of rock art, geophysics research and sondage excavations conducted at the Painted Hand Petroglyph Panel, a large rock art site in south-western Colorado, USA, has revealed new information about the cultural situation in the pre-Columbian and historic North American Southwest
Human Images and Blurring Boundaries. The Pueblo Body in Cosmological Context
Images of the human form can be analysed for what they reveal about social roles, hierarchy, and other identities, as well as culturally determined perceptions about humanity's relationships to the natural environment and supernatural realm. It is proposed that the portrayal of the multitudinous human subjects related to religious ideology and practice in Rio Grande Tradition and Navajo rock art focuses on the interconnectedness of all things, de…
Religion on the Rocks
Wright's volume is the most recent in a laudable series of studies of Hohokam rock art, but it differs significantly in its approach. The focus on the Hohokam petroglyphs and the associated archaeo
Landscapes of Origin in the Americas
The Cave in the Kiva
The elaborate symbolism painted around wall niches in Rio Grande Pueblo IV kivas ca. A.D. 1370-1600 at Pottery Mound and Kuaua describe a cosmological paradigm of layered worlds accessed by supernatural passageways. This paper examines the niche iconography at these sites and the associated metaphors represented in the surrounding murals. Equivalent to the sípàapuni and symbolic of the landscape cave, the niche as a portal to the watery and fecun…
Signs of Casas Grandes Shamans . Christine S. VanPool , Todd L. VanPool
Documenting Conflict in the Prehistoric Pueblo Southwest
A New Look at Tie-Dye and the Dot-in-a-Square Motif Ih the Prehispanic Southwest
Tie-dyed fabrics patterned with a dot-in-a-square motif appear in the archaeological textile record ofthe U.S.Southwest by the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. Mural images from Arizona and New Mexico suggest that tie-dye was one of the primary means of decorating ritual clothing by Pueblo N. Using evidence from textiles, ceramics, rock art, linguistics, and other media from the U.S. Southwest, Mesoamerica, and Peru, we explore the histo…
Out of the underworld
Tied as it is to landscape, rock-art is a powerful vehicle for identifying and reconstructing past ideological systems regarding human relationships to natural environments. Rock-art can be used to help rediscover and define past cultural landscapes that have been rewritten by highways, cities, and other artefacts of the technological ideology of western culture. This study aims to show how rock-art – framed within its locational and graphic symb…
Handbook of Rock Art Research . David S. Whitley
Kachinas in the Pueblo World
Daniel Wolfman 1939-1994
A merican archaeologists lost a respected colleague when Daniel Wolfman passed away unexpectedly in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on November 25, 1994, due to heart complications. A pioneer in the field of chronometrics, his contributions to dating methods in archaeology in general and archaeomagnetism in particular have substantially advanced this specialized field, so basic to reconstructing the past
Rock Art in New Mexico
They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever
Shamans' Gallery
The Barrier Canyon style is a rock art style occurring in the Colorado River drainage in Utah and northwestern Colorado. An estimated time frame for the style is the late Western Archaic era with suggestions for earlier dating. A major site with stylistically related paintings, Shamans' Gallery, was recently recorded in the western part of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. The imagery at this site consists of over 40 abstract, elongated anthro…
Form, Content, and Function
Evidence for the Origins of the Pueblo Katchina Cult as Suggested by Southwestern Rock Art
Rock art studies have indicated that the katchina cult and associated religious sodalities arrived in the Pueblo Southwest in the early 14th century from the Jornada region of the Mogollon. Recent studies of prehistoric Pueblo social organization suggest that population aggregation after A.D. 1150 led to the need for means of intravillage social integration. It is proposed that the arrival of the katchina cult and its widespread acceptance occurr…
The Rock Art of Texas Indians. W. W. N ewcomb , J r
Navaho Folk Tales
Rock Art in the Navajo Reservoir District
Evidence for the Origins of the Pueblo Katchina Cult as Suggested by Southwestern Rock Art
Rock art studies have indicated that the katchina cult and associated religious sodalities arrived in the Pueblo Southwest in the early 14th century from the Jornada region of the Mogollon. Recent studies of prehistoric Pueblo social organization suggest that population aggregation after A.D. 1150 led to the need for means of intravillage social integration. It is proposed that the arrival of the katchina cult and its widespread acceptance occurr…
The Cave in the Kiva
The elaborate symbolism painted around wall niches in Rio Grande Pueblo IV kivas ca. A.D. 1370-1600 at Pottery Mound and Kuaua describe a cosmological paradigm of layered worlds accessed by supernatural passageways. This paper examines the niche iconography at these sites and the associated metaphors represented in the surrounding murals. Equivalent to the sípàapuni and symbolic of the landscape cave, the niche as a portal to the watery and fecun…
Landscapes of Origin in the Americas
Human Images and Blurring Boundaries. The Pueblo Body in Cosmological Context
Images of the human form can be analysed for what they reveal about social roles, hierarchy, and other identities, as well as culturally determined perceptions about humanity's relationships to the natural environment and supernatural realm. It is proposed that the portrayal of the multitudinous human subjects related to religious ideology and practice in Rio Grande Tradition and Navajo rock art focuses on the interconnectedness of all things, de…
Shamans' Gallery
The Barrier Canyon style is a rock art style occurring in the Colorado River drainage in Utah and northwestern Colorado. An estimated time frame for the style is the late Western Archaic era with suggestions for earlier dating. A major site with stylistically related paintings, Shamans' Gallery, was recently recorded in the western part of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. The imagery at this site consists of over 40 abstract, elongated anthro…
Digital documentation and analysis of Native American rock art and Euro-American historical inscriptions from the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado
Detailed photogrammetry and 3D laser scanning of rock art, geophysics research and sondage excavations conducted at the Painted Hand Petroglyph Panel, a large rock art site in south-western Colorado, USA, has revealed new information about the cultural situation in the pre-Columbian and historic North American Southwest
A New Look at Tie-Dye and the Dot-in-a-Square Motif Ih the Prehispanic Southwest
Tie-dyed fabrics patterned with a dot-in-a-square motif appear in the archaeological textile record ofthe U.S.Southwest by the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. Mural images from Arizona and New Mexico suggest that tie-dye was one of the primary means of decorating ritual clothing by Pueblo N. Using evidence from textiles, ceramics, rock art, linguistics, and other media from the U.S. Southwest, Mesoamerica, and Peru, we explore the histo…
Out of the underworld
Tied as it is to landscape, rock-art is a powerful vehicle for identifying and reconstructing past ideological systems regarding human relationships to natural environments. Rock-art can be used to help rediscover and define past cultural landscapes that have been rewritten by highways, cities, and other artefacts of the technological ideology of western culture. This study aims to show how rock-art – framed within its locational and graphic symb…
Rock Art in the Navajo Reservoir District
Rock Art in the Navajo Reservoir District
The Rock Art of Texas Indians. W. W. N ewcomb , J r
Navaho Folk Tales
Evidence for the Origins of the Pueblo Katchina Cult as Suggested by Southwestern Rock Art
Rock art studies have indicated that the katchina cult and associated religious sodalities arrived in the Pueblo Southwest in the early 14th century from the Jornada region of the Mogollon. Recent studies of prehistoric Pueblo social organization suggest that population aggregation after A.D. 1150 led to the need for means of intravillage social integration. It is proposed that the arrival of the katchina cult and its widespread acceptance occurr…
Form, Content, and Function
Shamans' Gallery
The Barrier Canyon style is a rock art style occurring in the Colorado River drainage in Utah and northwestern Colorado. An estimated time frame for the style is the late Western Archaic era with suggestions for earlier dating. A major site with stylistically related paintings, Shamans' Gallery, was recently recorded in the western part of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. The imagery at this site consists of over 40 abstract, elongated anthro…
Rock Art in New Mexico
They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever
Kachinas in the Pueblo World
Daniel Wolfman 1939-1994
A merican archaeologists lost a respected colleague when Daniel Wolfman passed away unexpectedly in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on November 25, 1994, due to heart complications. A pioneer in the field of chronometrics, his contributions to dating methods in archaeology in general and archaeomagnetism in particular have substantially advanced this specialized field, so basic to reconstructing the past
Handbook of Rock Art Research . David S. Whitley
Out of the underworld
Tied as it is to landscape, rock-art is a powerful vehicle for identifying and reconstructing past ideological systems regarding human relationships to natural environments. Rock-art can be used to help rediscover and define past cultural landscapes that have been rewritten by highways, cities, and other artefacts of the technological ideology of western culture. This study aims to show how rock-art – framed within its locational and graphic symb…
A New Look at Tie-Dye and the Dot-in-a-Square Motif Ih the Prehispanic Southwest
Tie-dyed fabrics patterned with a dot-in-a-square motif appear in the archaeological textile record ofthe U.S.Southwest by the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. Mural images from Arizona and New Mexico suggest that tie-dye was one of the primary means of decorating ritual clothing by Pueblo N. Using evidence from textiles, ceramics, rock art, linguistics, and other media from the U.S. Southwest, Mesoamerica, and Peru, we explore the histo…
Documenting Conflict in the Prehistoric Pueblo Southwest
Signs of Casas Grandes Shamans . Christine S. VanPool , Todd L. VanPool
Landscapes of Origin in the Americas
The Cave in the Kiva
The elaborate symbolism painted around wall niches in Rio Grande Pueblo IV kivas ca. A.D. 1370-1600 at Pottery Mound and Kuaua describe a cosmological paradigm of layered worlds accessed by supernatural passageways. This paper examines the niche iconography at these sites and the associated metaphors represented in the surrounding murals. Equivalent to the sípàapuni and symbolic of the landscape cave, the niche as a portal to the watery and fecun…
Religion on the Rocks
Wright's volume is the most recent in a laudable series of studies of Hohokam rock art, but it differs significantly in its approach. The focus on the Hohokam petroglyphs and the associated archaeo
Human Images and Blurring Boundaries. The Pueblo Body in Cosmological Context
Images of the human form can be analysed for what they reveal about social roles, hierarchy, and other identities, as well as culturally determined perceptions about humanity's relationships to the natural environment and supernatural realm. It is proposed that the portrayal of the multitudinous human subjects related to religious ideology and practice in Rio Grande Tradition and Navajo rock art focuses on the interconnectedness of all things, de…
Digital documentation and analysis of Native American rock art and Euro-American historical inscriptions from the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado
Detailed photogrammetry and 3D laser scanning of rock art, geophysics research and sondage excavations conducted at the Painted Hand Petroglyph Panel, a large rock art site in south-western Colorado, USA, has revealed new information about the cultural situation in the pre-Columbian and historic North American Southwest
Ducks and the Basketmakers in the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest
Rock art may provide insights into the fluid cosmological relationships between people and other living beings. Described here is an iconographic cluster of Basketmaker II-III figures referred to as the “duck complex” with its geographic focus in the central San Juan region of Utah and Arizona. It consists of images of ducks themselves, as well as depictions of anthropomorphs with ducks on their heads that are often associated with fluteplayers, …
Ancestral Pueblo and Historic Ute Rock Art, and Euro-American Inscriptions in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado, USA
In the central Mesa Verde region, rock art occurs on canyon walls and on boulders that are frequently associated with other archaeological remains. Moreover, rock art, together with architecture and pottery, is actually a primary source of archaeological information about the presence of various cultures in the area. It includes paintings and petroglyphs of Ancestral Pueblo farming communities, images and inscriptions made by post-contact Ute and…
History (17 works) · Archaeology (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Art (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Rock art (11 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (10 works) · Art history (8 works) · History (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 works)