Rock Art Papers, Volume 3

Description

Editor: Hedges, Ken

Publisher: San Diego Museum of Man

Pub Date: 1986

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  One small chip on lower rear cover edge, looks like a very small punch.  Extends through last 15 pages.  One stain on lower rear cover corner near spine foot.  Includes one fold-out.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes: San Diego Museum Papers No. 20.  Includes papers on a Chaco Canyon site, two sites in southern Arizona, 4 sites in Baja California, Mexico, and five sites in California.  “As long as we recognize the environmentally imposed limitations on the creators of rock graphics and the probability that what we are seeing may have multiple meanings at different levels of communication, we are justified in taking on the challenge to totally record rock graphics and their sites and to hypothesize the purposes, functions, and meanings which the depictions are trying to communicate.”  (pp. 225-226)