France-US Joint Conference on New Methods in Rock Art Research

该奖项为在德克萨斯州下佩科斯岩石艺术研究中心SHUMLA举行的为期3天的会议提供支持。它汇集了法国研究人员和美国的科学家，分享新的和新兴的方法，在记录，存档，保存和岩石艺术的解释。岩石艺术是指在岩壁上，岩石掩体，洞穴内或建筑结构的图像。它在全球范围内发现，集中在北美，非洲，澳大利亚，欧洲，中国和许多其他地方，人们发现岩石表面。岩石上的这种标记已经成为人类文化的一部分，至少有30，000年的历史，并采取多种形式，包括雕刻和绘画颜料的使用。近几十年来，随着摄影、数字和GIS记录以及基于网络的文档和存档等多种方法的快速发展，对岩石艺术的研究越来越受到关注。鉴于许多图像和岩石艺术表现形式的脆弱性，以及人们越来越关注从岩石艺术中推断出人类文化生活的内容，这是一个理想的时刻，可以将一些正在开发复杂和创新方法和技术的最活跃的研究人员聚集在一起。这个合作项目将包括来自美国和法国的机构的研究人员，以允许跨几个研究传统的方法和方法的共享。美国和法国是世界上两个岩石艺术研究中心，迄今为止，它们之间的互动相对较少。本次会议将明确为研究人员提供更多的科学方法和方法，这些方法和方法可以带回法国和美国以及澳大利亚的各种学术和非专业公共社区。会议本身将在一个非营利教育研究中心（SHUMLA）举行，会议的结果将被纳入通讯和教育活动。这些包括K-12活动和观众。会议将由一名与会者拍摄，他也是法国一家公众制作公司的董事，该公司通过电影和其他媒体向公众展示考古学。会议的与会者包括广泛的研究人员（例如，其中一半是女性，其中一名美国研究人员是美国土著部落的活跃成员），来自各种机构，包括美国的一所小型文科公立学院、私人研究咨询机构、SHUMLA教育中心和欧洲博物馆。会议材料，如关于新方法及其应用的powerpoint演示文稿，将提供给与会者和专业团体。

This award provides support for a 3 day conference to be held at the Lower Pecos Texas rock art research center, SHUMLA. It brings together French researchers and US-based scientists to share new and emerging methods in the documentation, archiving, preservation, and interpretation of rock art. Rock art refers to images made on rock walls, rock shelters, inside caves or architectural structures. It is found globally with concentrations in North America, Africa, Australia, Europe, China and many other locations where one finds rock surfaces. This marking on rock has been a part of the human cultural repertoire for at least 30,000 years and takes many forms, including engravings and use of pigments for paintings and drawings. In recent decades, research attention on rock art has been increasing with a correspondingly rapid development of multiple methods of photography, digital and GIS recording, and web-based documentation and archiving. Given the fragility of many images and rock art manifestations, and given the increasing attention to what one can infer about human cultural lives from rock art, this is an ideal moment to bring together some of the most active researchers who are developing sophisticated and innovative methods and techniques. This collaborative project will include researchers from both US and French based institutions to permit sharing of methods and approaches across several research traditions. The US and France are two world centers for rock art research and to date there has been relatively little interaction between them. This conference will explicitly provide researchers with increased exposure to a multiplicity of scientific approaches and methods that can be taken back to a variety of scholarly and lay public communities in both France and the United States, as well as Australia. The conference itself is being held at a non-profit educational research center (SHUMLA) where the results of the meeting will be integrated into the newsletters and educational activities. These include K-12 events and audiences. The conference will be filmed by one of the participants who is also the Director of a for-the-public production company in France that presents archaeology to the lay public through films and other media. The participants at the conference include a broad range of researchers (e.g., half are women and one of the U.S. researchers is an active member of a Native American tribe) from a variety of institutions including a small liberal arts public college in the US, private research consultancy, the SHUMLA educational center, and from European museums. Materials from the conference, such as powerpoint presentations on new methods and their applications, will be made available to avocational as well as professional groups.