Keeler quarry
A view from a site
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2163021 |
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| Authors | Marjorie Akin (University of California, Riverside, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 331-350 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08949468.1995.9966659 |
| OpenAlex | W2087215454 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The examination of a well‐documented petroglyph site, located near the northeastern shoreline of now‐dry Owens Lake, California, is used as a springboard for a review of explanatory models for the interpretation of rock art sites in California and the Great Basin. Interpretive models and methods of analysis used by Julian Steward, Robert Heizer, and others who have visited or reported on this site are reviewed. The persistence of Heizer's “hunting‐magic” explanation for the creation of the rock art is used as one of several examples of how preconceived notions can affect interpretations of ancient art
Archaeology · Geomorphology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · MAGIC (telescope · Rock art · Shore · Structural basin · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology
| Highly cited | No |
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