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

该奖项为将在德克萨斯州下佩科斯岩石艺术研究中心举行的为期3天的会议提供支持。它将法国研究人员和美国科学家聚集在一起，分享记录、存档、保存和解释岩石艺术的新方法。岩石艺术是指在岩壁、岩石掩体、洞穴内或建筑结构上制作的图像。它在全球发现，集中在北美、非洲、澳大利亚、欧洲、中国和许多其他发现岩石表面的地方。岩石上的这种标记至少在3万年前就已经成为人类文化的一部分，并采取了多种形式，包括雕刻和绘画和素描中颜料的使用。近几十年来，随着摄影、数字和地理信息系统记录以及基于网络的文档和档案等多种方法的迅速发展，对岩石艺术的研究受到了越来越多的关注。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可以推断出人类文化生活的东西，现在是将一些最活跃的研究人员聚集在一起的理想时刻，他们正在开发复杂和创新的方法和技术。这个合作项目将包括来自美国和法国机构的研究人员，以允许跨几个研究传统分享方法和途径。美国和法国是岩石艺术研究的两个世界中心，到目前为止，它们之间的互动相对较少。这次会议将明确地让研究人员更多地接触到多种科学途径和方法，这些途径和方法可以追溯到法国、美国以及澳大利亚的各种学术和普通公共社区。会议本身是在一个非营利性教育研究中心(SHUMLA)举行的，会议成果将纳入时事通讯和教育活动。这包括K-12活动和观众。会议将由一名与会者拍摄，他也是法国一家面向公众的制作公司的董事，该公司通过电影和其他媒体向普通公众展示考古。这次会议的参与者包括来自不同机构的广泛的研究人员(例如，一半是女性，其中一名美国研究人员是美洲原住民部落的活跃成员)，包括美国的一所小型文科公立学院、私人研究咨询公司、SHUMLA教育中心和欧洲博物馆。来自会议的材料，如关于新方法及其应用的PowerPoint演示文稿，将向业余团体和专业团体提供。

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.