Table of Contents

Contents

Authors' Note

Preface

Part I. Introduction and Background

1. Introduction to Rock Art

2. Dating Rock Art

3. Interpreting Rock Art

4. The Area and Its History

5. Native Cultures of the Northwestern Plains

Part II. Rock Art Traditions of the Northwestern Plains

6. Early Hunting Tradition

7. Columbia Plateau Tradition

8. Dinwoody Tradition

9. En Toto Pecked Tradition

10. Pecked Abstract Tradition

11. Foothills Abstract Tradition

12. Hoofprint Tradition

13. Ceremonial Tradition

14. Biographic Tradition

15. Robe and Ledger Art Tradition

16. Vertical Series Tradition

Summary and Conclusions

Appendix. Sites Developed for the Public

Bibliography

Index

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The ultimate guide to the rock art of the Plains region that stretches from the Rockies to the western Dakotas

About the Author

James D. Keyser conducts research for the Indigenous Cultures Preservation Society. He has taught anthropology at SUNY Buffalo and the University of Tulsa, and served as Northwest Regional Archaeologist for the USDA Forest Service. He is the author of Clan Crests and Shamans' Masks: Petroglyphs in Southeast Alaska (Indigenous Cultures Preservation society, 2012), Rock Art of the Oregon Country (Oregon Archaeological Society Press, 2010), Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau (University of Washington Press, 1992); and coauthor of Plains Indian Rock Art (University of Washington Press, 2001).

Reviews

"In the empire of rock art (at least on the northwestern plains), Keyser and Klassen reign supreme."
*European Review of Native American Studies*

"An outstanding study of the rock art of the northern Great Plains from Colorado to Alberta. This area contains some of the earliest evidence of human occupation in the Americas, and there is rock art covering thousands of years."
*American Archaeology*