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。它将法国研究人员和美国科学家聚集在一起，分享岩石艺术的记录、存档、保存和解释方面的新方法。岩石艺术是指在岩壁、岩洞、岩洞内或建筑结构上制作的图像。它在全球范围内被发现，集中在北美、非洲、澳大利亚、欧洲、中国和许多其他可以发现岩石表面的地方。这种岩石上的标记已经成为人类文化遗产的一部分，至少已有3万年的历史，其形式多种多样，包括雕刻和使用颜料绘画。近几十年来，随着摄影、数字和GIS记录以及基于网络的文献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。考虑到许多图像和岩石艺术表现形式的脆弱性，考虑到人们越来越关注从岩石艺术中可以推断出人类文化生活，这是一个理想的时刻，汇集了一些最活跃的研究人员，他们正在开发复杂和创新的方法和技术。该合作项目将包括来自美国和法国机构的研究人员，以允许跨几种研究传统共享方法和方法。美国和法国是岩石艺术研究的两个世界中心，迄今为止，它们之间的互动相对较少。这次会议将明确地为研究人员提供更多接触多种科学方法和方法的机会，这些方法和方法可以被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。会议本身是在一个非营利性教育研究中心（SHUMLA）举行的，会议的结果将被纳入新闻通讯和教育活动。这包括K-12的活动和观众。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主任，该公司通过电影和其他媒体向非专业公众介绍考古学。会议的参与者包括来自各种机构的研究人员（例如，一半是女性，其中一名美国研究人员是美洲土著部落的活跃成员），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。会议的材料，如关于新方法及其应用的ppt演示，将提供给业余团体和专业团体。

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.