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STONEHENGE FOR THE ANCESTORS Role 1: Mural AND MONUMENTS Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Chris Tilley and Kate Welham , 2020

This details our excavations forth the Stonehenge Avenue Bend every bit part of the Stonehenge Riverside... more This details our excavations along the Stonehenge Avenue Bend as office of the Stonehenge Riverside Project in the first volume of Stonehenge for the Ancestors, which can be purchased or read on line for free at https://world wide web.sidestone.com/books/stonehenge-for-the-ancestors-office-1.

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Proceedings of the National University of the Sciences , 2020

While debates accept raged over the relationship between trance and rock art, unambiguous evidence ... more than While debates accept raged over the human relationship between trance and rock art, unambiguous evidence of the consumption of hallucinogens has not been reported from any rock fine art site in the globe. A painting possibly representing the flowers of Datura on the ceiling of a Californian stone art site called Pinwheel Cavern was discovered aslope fibrous quids in the aforementioned ceiling. Even though Native Californians are historically documented to have used Datura to enter trance states, little evidence exists to associate it with stone art. A multianalytical approach to the rock art, the quids, and the archaeological context of this site was undertaken. Liquid chromatography−mass spectrometry (LC-MS) results constitute hallucinogenic alkaloids scopolamine and atropine in the quids, while scanning electron microscope analysis confirms most to be Datura wrightii. Three-dimensional (3D) analyses of the quids indicate the quids were likely masticated and thus consumed in the cavern under the paintings. Archaeological evidence and chronological dating shows the site was well utilized every bit a temporary residence for a range of activities from Late Prehistory through Colonial Periods. This indicates that Datura was ingested in the cave and that the rock painting represents the plant itself, serving to codify communal rituals involving this powerful entheogen. These results confirm the apply of hallucinogens at a stone art site while calling into question previous assumptions concerning trance and stone art imagery.

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SCA Proceedings, Vol. 33 , 2019

This Gordian Knot Project utilizes portable X-ray fluorescence, portable Raman spectroscopy, port... more This Gordian Knot Project utilizes portable X-ray fluorescence, portable Raman spectroscopy, portable Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and various imaging on-site techniques such as photogrammetry, dStretch, reflectance transformation imaging, and laser scanning at the California stone art site known as Pleito. While these techniques have great worth, each technique has its own drawbacks and limitations. Laser scanner has shown to be a highly accurate, only cumbersome data set for geographic data science analyses. In this article, a simple but constructive technique is presented showing how using standard portable total station equipment remains effective to create micro-viewsheds of stone fine art in relation to other archaeological features and its natural setting.

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Advances in Archaeological Practice , 2019

Advanced ii-D and 3-D computer visualizations are increasingly existence used for recording and docume... more Advanced 2-D and 3-D computer visualizations are increasingly existence used for recording and documentation, analysis, dissemination, and public date purposes. Recent technological advances not only considerably improve data acquisition, processing, and analysis but also enable easy and efficient online presentation. This commodity evaluates the contributions of advanced 2-D and 3-D estimator visualization and discusses the potential of 3-D modeling for recording basketry applied science and documenting the land of preservation of baskets. It explores the available analysis, integration, and online dissemination tools, using as case studies recently excavated baskets from Enshroud Cave in southern California. Results indicate that the proposed methodology, which incorporates reflectance transformation imaging visualizations and photogrammetric three-D models, which are further processed using 3-D modeling software and integrated analysis tools and so transformed to a Web-based format, is a useful improver to the basketry analysis toolkit.

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Interaction with Computers , 2019

This newspaper describes a Virtual Reality (VR) prototype adult to help archaeologists and other ... more This paper describes a Virtual Reality (VR) prototype adult to assist archaeologists and other stakeholders explore and analyse archaeological data in a more immersive context. Nosotros describe a VR reconstruction of Pleito Cavern, a fragile globe form rock-art site with accessibility limitation. Key stakeholders are identified and a prototype is described that provides a VR platform for visualizing and interacting with complex archaeological data (gathered from techniques such every bit decorrelation stretch and Ten-ray fluorescence) virtually 'in situ', in a style that would not be possible at the real site. The prototype allows multiple remote users to collaborate with the cave together remotely providing opportunities for collaborative interpretation and analysis of archaeological data. We also nowadays a survey-based evaluation in which both archaeologists and Native American stakeholders indicate positive responses for measures of both appointment and value.
Open access available at: https://academic.oup.com/iwc/accelerate-article/doi/ten.1093/iwc/iwz011/5470140

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Beyond Stones and More than Stones: Vol. 2. Edited by Ravi Korisettar. The Mythic Society: Bengaluru. , 2018

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Abstract: The Native inhabitants of South Central California produced rock art containing red, o... more Abstract:
The Native inhabitants of Due south Primal California produced rock art containing cherry-red, orange, black,
white, dark-green and blueish colours using a range of mineral and organic materials. Many of these same colours
were used on fabric culture and body painting. This paper focuses on a sub-grouping of the Chumash, chosen
the Emigdiano, who produced an enigmatic blueish colour used in the cosmos of rock art. Here, nosotros focus
on the bluish pigment at the rock shelter site of Iii Springs in the Wind Wolves Preserve in Due south Key
California. The composition of blueish pigments has previously been the focus of discussion with suggestions
that they were produced either using European pigments taken from Spanish missions, or that azurite from
a local quarry was the source. Previous experimental work had demonstrated that it was possible for the
blue to be produced from locally available azurite. Hither we present the in situ analyses of these enigmatic
blue pigments using handheld X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF). Results from pXRF analysis of rock fine art, quarried
azurite samples and experimental rock art reconstructions showed that the Emigdiano Blue at Three Springs
were non azurite based and was composed of optical blue (a mixture of blackness and white or grey materials
which mimic the appearance of blue). This paper discusses the surprising implications of the use, given the
availability of a 'true' blue pigment, and the wider ontological importance of combining multiple colours to
produce the effect of blue in a rock art panel.

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The Native inhabitants of South Central California produced rock fine art containing ruby-red, orangish, blac... more The Native inhabitants of S Fundamental California produced stone fine art containing ruby, orange, black, white, dark-green and blue colours using a range of mineral and organic materials. Many of these same colours were used on material culture and body painting. This paper focuses on a sub-group of the Chumash, chosen the Emigdiano, who produced an enigmatic bluish color used in the creation of stone art. Here, we focus on the bluish pigment at the rock shelter site of 3 Springs in the Wind Wolves Preserve in Southward Central California. The composition of blue pigments has previously been the focus of discussion with suggestions that they were produced either using European pigments taken from Spanish missions, or that azurite from a local quarry was the source. Previous experimental piece of work had demonstrated that information technology was possible for the blueish to be produced from locally available azurite. Hither we present the in situ analyses of these enigmatic blue pigments using handheld Ten-ray Fluorescence (pXRF). Results from pXRF analysis of rock fine art, quarried azurite samples and experimental rock fine art reconstructions showed that the Emigdiano Bluish at Three Springs were not azurite based and was composed of optical blue (a mixture of black and white or grey materials which mimic the advent of blue). This newspaper discusses the surprising implications of the use, given the availability of a 'true' blue paint, and the wider ontological importance of combining multiple colours to produce the effect of blue in a rock art panel.

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Journal of Archaeological Science , 2018

This newspaper deals with the documentation, and virtual visual assay of pictographs using interac... more than This paper deals with the documentation, and virtual visual assay of pictographs using interactive relighting, digital image enhancement techniques and diagrammatic representations. It discusses areas of interest for the assay of low surface detail, large and geometrically circuitous superimposed pictographs. The synergy of reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) and decorrelation stretch (DS) aimed to improve the written report of superimposition via the enhanced visualization of the surface morphology, dominant features, pigment characteristics and layering. Additionally, diagrammatic representations of the results of the paradigm-based analysis provided a valuable tool for interpretation and integration of the diverse dataset from the ongoing research in the Pleito Cave in California. This method allows revisiting unresolved hypotheses concerning the site by unpacking chemic and visual data in superimposed sequences.

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In February 2015, a cache cave was discovered in the remote backcountry of Santa Barbara County. ... more In February 2015, a enshroud cave was discovered in the remote backcountry of Santa Barbara County. An investigation of the cache was carried out by the authors. Three baskets, a cave stick, and cordage were identified from the cache, which was mapped using 3D scanning and photogrammetry. A decorated storage handbasket appears to be the largest known from the Chumash area. The implications of this cache, and its relationship to other nearby caches and rock art sites, are discussed.

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In recent years, geographic information system (GIS) and spatial analysis in rock fine art studies has... more In recent years, geographic information system (GIS) and spatial analysis in stone art studies has become a more prominent means of studying stone art and its association with the Ethnic landscape. Contempo approaches integrate theoretical dimensions of GIS analysis with a various range of methods, each of which requires comprehensive consideration of its strengths and limitations. Insight into Indigenous peoples' landscape perceptions through multiscalar, theoretical analyses can exist gleaned through the application of GIS within rock art research. A holistic review is presented here to empathise the methodologies that accept been utilized in rock fine art research, non only for conservation and preservation, only as well to further understand the integration of rock fine art within the landscape through statistical and spatial interrogation.

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New discoveries from a Californian cave have found a remarkable assemblage of cached perishable a... more New discoveries from a Californian cave take found a remarkable assemblage of buried perishable and other artefacts. Comprised of baskets, cordage, bone, antler, leather, food residues and other materials, the assemblages are dispersed through four caves in the largest ever cache discovered in the borderland region attributable to the native Californian linguistic group known as the Chumash. This paper develops a methodology based upon DeLanda's philosophy of assemblages and Graeber'south anthropological theory of value. Chiefly, following Normark, information technology is argued that assemblage theory needs to be operationalized into a methodological approach in club to apply information technology archaeologically. This methodology illustrate how a chapters assay of the Cache Cavern assemblage relates to values inside the social club which cached it past revealing the relational capacities within assemblages and relative capacities between them. Importantly, equally a scalable approach, capacity analysis allows the investigation of the heterogeneous dynamics within circuitous societies.

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G.J. Allen , B. Chan , R. Cleal , C. French , P. Marshall , J. Pollard , R. Pullen , C. Richards , C. Ruggles , D. Robinson , J. Rylatt , J. Thomas, K. Welham & 1000. Parker Pearson. 2016. Stonehenge's Artery and 'Bluestonehenge'. Antiquity 90(352):991-1008

Stonehenge is a site that continues to yield surprises. Excavation in 2009 added a new and unexpe... more Stonehenge is a site that continues to yield surprises. Excavation in 2009 added a new and unexpected characteristic: a smaller, dismantled stone circumvolve on the banks of the River Avon, connected to Stonehenge itself by the Avenue. This new structure has been labelled 'Bluestonehenge' from the testify that it one time held a circumvolve of bluestones that were subsequently removed to Stonehenge. Investigation of the Artery closer to Stonehenge revealed deep periglacial fissures within information technology. Their alignment on Stonehenge's solstitial centrality (midwinter sunset–midsummer sunrise) raises questions about the early origins of this ritual mural.

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Elite households of the Californian Chumash have been studied in order to understand the developm... more Elite households of the Californian Chumash have been studied in order to understand the development of Late Holocene hunter-gatherer alliance net- works. Equally, models of what has been termed 'tribelet territories' have been used to describe land ownership inside larger
Californian concepts. Surprisingly piddling research has explicitly addressed issues of how such territories may accept adult. In this commodity, we turn to DeLanda'southward philosophy of social complexity to consider how Chumash households may have under- pinned the development of tribelet territories and the political implications for their articulation with wider alliances. Chiefly, utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we analyse potential mobility patterns
in relation to households, villages and rock-art locales in a case from the Emigdiano Chumash. The results suggest that the painting of stone art was imbricated within processes of territorialization, and that the local placement of art reflects which villages were home to particularly high-status households.

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Robinson, DW, MJ Baker, C Bedford, J Perry, M Wienhold, J Bernard, D Reeves, Due east Kotoula, D Gandy, J Miles. 2015. Methodological Considerations of Integrating Portable Digital Technologies in the Analysis and Direction of Complex Superimposed Californian Pictographs. DAACH

How can the utilization of newly developed advanced portable technologies requite us greater underst... more than How tin can the utilization of newly adult advanced portable technologies requite us greater understandings of the most circuitous of prehistoric rock art? This is the questions driving The Gordian Knot project analysing the polychrome Californian site known every bit Pleito. New pocket-sized transportable devices allow detailed on-site analyses of stone fine art. These non-destructive portable technologies can use X-ray and Raman technology to determine the chemical elements used to make the paint that makes the painting; they can use imaging techniques such equally Highlight Reflective Transformation Imaging and dStretch© to enhance their visibility; they can utilize digital imagery to disentangle complex superimposed paintings; and they tin use portable light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation instruments to analyse the micro-topography of the rock surface and integrate these technologies into a 3-D surroundings. This newspaper outlines a robust methodology and preliminary results to show how an integration of different portable technologies can serve rock art research and management.

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Five Chumash rock art sites in the Current of air Wolves Preserve, California, were examined using portable... more than Five Chumash rock art sites in the Wind Wolves Preserve, California, were examined using portable Xray
fluorescence analysis in order to compare cerise pigments used, differentiate betwixt pigments and
painting events, and talk over the implications of this information. The results showed that the technique
was successful in identifying different pigments and that multiple pigments were used within each rock art
panel and inside individual elements. These results signal the presence of multiple artists or episodes of
retouching over time, and potentially a less sectional function for rock fine art than some have suggested
previously.

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Comparing the hunter-gatherers of California and the Cracking Basin illustrates enormous differences... more Comparing the hunter-gatherers of California and the Swell Bowl illustrates enormous differences between the two regions in terms of indigenous club and the types of issues anthropologists have traditionally addressed. Nonetheless, the anthropological study of these neighbouring regions shares common roots. This article details a historiography of anthropological research of these two vast areas, focusing on the transition from early ethnohistorical sources to the current focus on bug of ethnogenesis. Understandings of the hunter-gatherers of the American Far West accept gone hand-in-hand with the changing relationships betwixt Europeans/Americans and native groups. This includes piece of work by the Bureau of American Ethnology, the important piece of work past Kroeberian anthropologists, and the mail-Kroeberian period of collating and interpreting the ethnographic and ethnohistoric records. This article highlights recent critiques of previous anthropological work such as revisionists' views of early twentieth-century memory anthropology, Steward's view of Peachy Basin organization, the Ghost Dance movement, and neo-tribalism

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This is what Kent Lightfoot says nearly this chapter in his summary chapter from the same volume: ... more than This is what Kent Lightfoot says nearly this chapter in his summary chapter from the same book:

"The almost sophisticated and systematic study of the outlying indigenous mural is the Enculturating Environments Project in Southern California as presented by Bernard, Robinson, and Sturt in Chapter 9. This impressive project is undertaking regional survey and selected excavations of sites in the territory of the Emigdiano Chumash, who inhabited the interior foothills and mountains a little distance east of the coastal Franciscan missions. In featuring the Tashlipun/Runnaway Army camp, Pinwheel, and Santiago locales, they show how detailed investigations of outlying sties can provide incredible information about the political economies, social relationships, and cultural practices of hinterland peoples before, during, and after the mission period... "

Lightfoot (2014: 203)
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This chapter examines the ontology of Indigenous South-Central California with a focus on the col... more This chapter examines the ontology of Indigenous South-Central California with a focus on the colorful pictographs of the Chumash. I argue that interpretations of rock fine art from shamanic perspectives has dehistoricized the art and cast imagery within essentialist cognitive terms, effectively curtailing the possibility of interpreting the images as something more than the standard outward expression of a universal neuropsychological function. By dissimilarity, considering Indigenous ontologies affords a much better understanding of both stone art and Native perceptions of their surroundings, allowing u.s. to move closer to an emic perspective and to capeesh Indigenous social dynamics and stone art in social rather than cerebral terms.

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STONEHENGE FOR THE ANCESTORS Role 1: LANDSCAPE AND MONUMENTS Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Chris Tilley and Kate Welham , 2020

This details our excavations along the Stonehenge Avenue Bend equally office of the Stonehenge Riverside... more This details our excavations forth the Stonehenge Avenue Curve equally function of the Stonehenge Riverside Project in the start volume of Stonehenge for the Ancestors, which can exist purchased or read on line for free at https://www.sidestone.com/books/stonehenge-for-the-ancestors-role-1.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences , 2020

While debates accept raged over the relationship between trance and rock art, unambiguous prove ... more While debates have raged over the human relationship between trance and rock art, unambiguous testify of the consumption of hallucinogens has non been reported from any rock art site in the earth. A painting maybe representing the flowers of Datura on the ceiling of a Californian rock art site called Pinwheel Cave was discovered alongside fibrous quids in the same ceiling. Even though Native Californians are historically documented to have used Datura to enter trance states, little evidence exists to associate it with rock art. A multianalytical approach to the rock art, the quids, and the archaeological context of this site was undertaken. Liquid chromatography−mass spectrometry (LC-MS) results establish hallucinogenic alkaloids scopolamine and atropine in the quids, while scanning electron microscope assay confirms virtually to be Datura wrightii. Three-dimensional (3D) analyses of the quids signal the quids were likely masticated and thus consumed in the cave under the paintings. Archaeological bear witness and chronological dating shows the site was well utilized as a temporary residence for a range of activities from Late Prehistory through Colonial Periods. This indicates that Datura was ingested in the cavern and that the stone painting represents the plant itself, serving to codify communal rituals involving this powerful entheogen. These results confirm the use of hallucinogens at a rock art site while calling into question previous assumptions concerning trance and rock art imagery.

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SCA Proceedings, Vol. 33 , 2019

This Gordian Knot Project utilizes portable 10-ray fluorescence, portable Raman spectroscopy, port... more This Gordian Knot Project utilizes portable Ten-ray fluorescence, portable Raman spectroscopy, portable Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and various imaging on-site techniques such as photogrammetry, dStretch, reflectance transformation imaging, and laser scanning at the California rock art site known equally Pleito. While these techniques have corking worth, each technique has its own drawbacks and limitations. Laser scanner has shown to exist a highly accurate, but cumbersome data set for geographic information scientific discipline analyses. In this article, a simple simply effective technique is presented showing how using standard portable total station equipment remains constructive to create micro-viewsheds of rock fine art in relation to other archaeological features and its natural setting.

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Advances in Archaeological Practice , 2019

Advanced 2-D and 3-D calculator visualizations are increasingly beingness used for recording and docume... more Advanced ii-D and 3-D figurer visualizations are increasingly being used for recording and documentation, analysis, broadcasting, and public date purposes. Recent technological advances not simply considerably amend data acquisition, processing, and assay simply also enable piece of cake and efficient online presentation. This commodity evaluates the contributions of advanced 2-D and iii-D calculator visualization and discusses the potential of three-D modeling for recording basketry technology and documenting the state of preservation of baskets. It explores the available assay, integration, and online dissemination tools, using every bit case studies recently excavated baskets from Cache Cave in southern California. Results betoken that the proposed methodology, which incorporates reflectance transformation imaging visualizations and photogrammetric 3-D models, which are further processed using 3-D modeling software and integrated assay tools and and then transformed to a Web-based format, is a useful addition to the basketry analysis toolkit.

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Interaction with Computers , 2019

This newspaper describes a Virtual Reality (VR) image developed to aid archaeologists and other ... more This paper describes a Virtual Reality (VR) prototype developed to assist archaeologists and other stakeholders explore and analyse archaeological data in a more than immersive context. We describe a VR reconstruction of Pleito Cavern, a fragile world course stone-fine art site with accessibility limitation. Key stakeholders are identified and a prototype is described that provides a VR platform for visualizing and interacting with circuitous archaeological data (gathered from techniques such as decorrelation stretch and X-ray fluorescence) virtually 'in situ', in a way that would not be possible at the real site. The prototype allows multiple remote users to interact with the cave together remotely providing opportunities for collaborative interpretation and analysis of archaeological data. We also present a survey-based evaluation in which both archaeologists and Native American stakeholders indicate positive responses for measures of both engagement and value.
Open up access bachelor at: https://academic.oup.com/iwc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/iwc/iwz011/5470140

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Beyond Stones and More Stones: Vol. 2. Edited by Ravi Korisettar. The Mythic Guild: Bengaluru. , 2018

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Abstract: The Native inhabitants of South Central California produced rock fine art containing scarlet, o... more Abstruse:
The Native inhabitants of South Central California produced rock art containing cerise, orangish, black,
white, green and blue colours using a range of mineral and organic materials. Many of these same colours
were used on material culture and torso painting. This paper focuses on a sub-group of the Chumash, called
the Emigdiano, who produced an enigmatic bluish color used in the creation of rock art. Here, we focus
on the blue pigment at the rock shelter site of Three Springs in the Current of air Wolves Preserve in Southward Cardinal
California. The composition of blue pigments has previously been the focus of word with suggestions
that they were produced either using European pigments taken from Spanish missions, or that azurite from
a local quarry was the source. Previous experimental work had demonstrated that it was possible for the
bluish to be produced from locally available azurite. Here nosotros present the in situ analyses of these enigmatic
blue pigments using handheld X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF). Results from pXRF analysis of rock fine art, quarried
azurite samples and experimental rock art reconstructions showed that the Emigdiano Blueish at Three Springs
were not azurite based and was composed of optical blue (a mixture of black and white or grey materials
which mimic the appearance of blue). This paper discusses the surprising implications of the apply, given the
availability of a 'truthful' blue pigment, and the wider ontological importance of combining multiple colours to
produce the upshot of blueish in a rock fine art panel.

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The Native inhabitants of South Cardinal California produced rock art containing ruddy, orange, blac... more The Native inhabitants of S Central California produced rock art containing red, orange, blackness, white, green and bluish colours using a range of mineral and organic materials. Many of these same colours were used on material civilisation and body painting. This paper focuses on a sub-grouping of the Chumash, chosen the Emigdiano, who produced an enigmatic blueish colour used in the creation of stone art. Here, we focus on the bluish pigment at the rock shelter site of Iii Springs in the Wind Wolves Preserve in Due south Key California. The limerick of blue pigments has previously been the focus of give-and-take with suggestions that they were produced either using European pigments taken from Spanish missions, or that azurite from a local quarry was the source. Previous experimental work had demonstrated that it was possible for the blue to be produced from locally available azurite. Here we present the in situ analyses of these enigmatic blueish pigments using handheld X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF). Results from pXRF analysis of rock fine art, quarried azurite samples and experimental stone art reconstructions showed that the Emigdiano Blue at Three Springs were not azurite based and was composed of optical blue (a mixture of black and white or grayness materials which mimic the appearance of blue). This paper discusses the surprising implications of the apply, given the availability of a 'true' blue pigment, and the wider ontological importance of combining multiple colours to produce the effect of blue in a rock art panel.

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Journal of Archaeological Scientific discipline , 2018

This newspaper deals with the documentation, and virtual visual assay of pictographs using interac... more This newspaper deals with the documentation, and virtual visual analysis of pictographs using interactive relighting, digital image enhancement techniques and diagrammatic representations. It discusses areas of interest for the analysis of low surface detail, large and geometrically circuitous superimposed pictographs. The synergy of reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) and decorrelation stretch (DS) aimed to meliorate the study of superimposition via the enhanced visualization of the surface morphology, ascendant features, paint characteristics and layering. Additionally, diagrammatic representations of the results of the image-based analysis provided a valuable tool for interpretation and integration of the various dataset from the ongoing research in the Pleito Cavern in California. This method allows revisiting unresolved hypotheses apropos the site by unpacking chemic and visual information in superimposed sequences.

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In February 2015, a cache cave was discovered in the remote backcountry of Santa Barbara County. ... more In Feb 2015, a cache cave was discovered in the remote backcountry of Santa Barbara County. An investigation of the cache was carried out by the authors. Iii baskets, a cave stick, and cordage were identified from the cache, which was mapped using 3D scanning and photogrammetry. A decorated storage basket appears to be the largest known from the Chumash surface area. The implications of this enshroud, and its relationship to other nearby caches and stone fine art sites, are discussed.

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In recent years, geographic information system (GIS) and spatial assay in rock art studies has... more In recent years, geographic information system (GIS) and spatial analysis in rock art studies has become a more prominent means of studying rock art and its association with the Indigenous landscape. Recent approaches integrate theoretical dimensions of GIS assay with a diverse range of methods, each of which requires comprehensive consideration of its strengths and limitations. Insight into Ethnic peoples' landscape perceptions through multiscalar, theoretical analyses tin can be gleaned through the application of GIS within rock art research. A holistic review is presented hither to empathize the methodologies that have been utilized in rock art research, not only for conservation and preservation, but as well to further understand the integration of rock art within the mural through statistical and spatial interrogation.

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New discoveries from a Californian cave have found a remarkable assemblage of cached perishable a... more New discoveries from a Californian cave take found a remarkable assemblage of cached perishable and other artefacts. Comprised of baskets, cordage, bone, antler, leather, nutrient residues and other materials, the assemblages are dispersed through four caves in the largest ever cache discovered in the frontier region attributable to the native Californian linguistic grouping known as the Chumash. This paper develops a methodology based upon DeLanda's philosophy of assemblages and Graeber's anthropological theory of value. Importantly, following Normark, information technology is argued that aggregation theory needs to exist operationalized into a methodological approach in order to utilize it archaeologically. This methodology illustrate how a capacity assay of the Cache Cave assemblage relates to values within the society which cached it by revealing the relational capacities within assemblages and relative capacities between them. Importantly, as a scalable approach, capacity assay allows the investigation of the heterogeneous dynamics within complex societies.

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M.J. Allen , B. Chan , R. Cleal , C. French , P. Marshall , J. Pollard , R. Pullen , C. Richards , C. Ruggles , D. Robinson , J. Rylatt , J. Thomas, K. Welham & M. Parker Pearson. 2016. Stonehenge'southward Avenue and 'Bluestonehenge'. Antiquity 90(352):991-1008

Stonehenge is a site that continues to yield surprises. Digging in 2009 added a new and unexpe... more Stonehenge is a site that continues to yield surprises. Excavation in 2009 added a new and unexpected characteristic: a smaller, dismantled stone circle on the banks of the River Avon, connected to Stonehenge itself by the Avenue. This new structure has been labelled 'Bluestonehenge' from the testify that information technology in one case held a circle of bluestones that were subsequently removed to Stonehenge. Investigation of the Avenue closer to Stonehenge revealed deep periglacial fissures within it. Their alignment on Stonehenge's solstitial axis (midwinter sunset–midsummer sunrise) raises questions about the early origins of this ritual landscape.

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Elite households of the Californian Chumash have been studied in gild to understand the developm... more Elite households of the Californian Chumash accept been studied in gild to understand the development of Late Holocene hunter-gatherer brotherhood internet- works. As, models of what has been termed 'tribelet territories' have been used to describe land ownership within larger
Californian concepts. Surprisingly trivial enquiry has explicitly addressed issues of how such territories may have developed. In this commodity, nosotros plough to DeLanda's philosophy of social complexity to consider how Chumash households may have under- pinned the development of tribelet territories and the political implications for their articulation with wider alliances. Importantly, utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we analyse potential mobility patterns
in relation to households, villages and stone-art locales in a case from the Emigdiano Chumash. The results propose that the painting of stone art was imbricated within processes of territorialization, and that the local placement of art reflects which villages were dwelling house to peculiarly high-status households.

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Robinson, DW, MJ Bakery, C Bedford, J Perry, 1000 Wienhold, J Bernard, D Reeves, E Kotoula, D Gandy, J Miles. 2015. Methodological Considerations of Integrating Portable Digital Technologies in the Analysis and Management of Complex Superimposed Californian Pictographs. DAACH

How can the utilization of newly adult advanced portable technologies give us greater underst... more How can the utilization of newly developed advanced portable technologies give us greater understandings of the most complex of prehistoric rock art? This is the questions driving The Gordian Knot projection analysing the polychrome Californian site known as Pleito. New modest transportable devices allow detailed on-site analyses of stone art. These not-destructive portable technologies tin use 10-ray and Raman engineering to determine the chemical elements used to brand the paint that makes the painting; they can utilise imaging techniques such equally Highlight Cogitating Transformation Imaging and dStretch© to raise their visibility; they can utilise digital imagery to disentangle complex superimposed paintings; and they can use portable laser instruments to analyse the micro-topography of the rock surface and integrate these technologies into a iii-D surround. This paper outlines a robust methodology and preliminary results to testify how an integration of dissimilar portable technologies can serve stone fine art research and direction.

Access article for free until 5/11/15 at http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Rj7i7szebUCPe

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Five Chumash stone art sites in the Wind Wolves Preserve, California, were examined using portable... more Five Chumash rock fine art sites in the Air current Wolves Preserve, California, were examined using portable Xray
fluorescence analysis in order to compare red pigments used, differentiate between pigments and
painting events, and discuss the implications of this information. The results showed that the technique
was successful in identifying dissimilar pigments and that multiple pigments were used inside each rock art
panel and within individual elements. These results indicate the presence of multiple artists or episodes of
retouching over time, and potentially a less exclusive function for rock art than some have suggested
previously.

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Comparing the hunter-gatherers of California and the Great Basin illustrates enormous differences... more Comparing the hunter-gatherers of California and the Bang-up Basin illustrates enormous differences between the two regions in terms of ethnic gild and the types of problems anthropologists have traditionally addressed. Notwithstanding, the anthropological study of these neighbouring regions shares mutual roots. This article details a historiography of anthropological enquiry of these two vast areas, focusing on the transition from early ethnohistorical sources to the electric current focus on issues of ethnogenesis. Understandings of the hunter-gatherers of the American Far W have gone hand-in-hand with the irresolute relationships between Europeans/Americans and native groups. This includes work by the Bureau of American Ethnology, the important work by Kroeberian anthropologists, and the mail-Kroeberian menstruation of collating and interpreting the ethnographic and ethnohistoric records. This commodity highlights recent critiques of previous anthropological work such every bit revisionists' views of early twentieth-century retentiveness anthropology, Steward's view of Swell Basin system, the Ghost Dance movement, and neo-tribalism

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This is what Kent Lightfoot says about this chapter in his summary chapter from the aforementioned book: ... more This is what Kent Lightfoot says about this chapter in his summary chapter from the aforementioned book:

"The nearly sophisticated and systematic written report of the outlying indigenous landscape is the Enculturating Environments Project in Southern California as presented past Bernard, Robinson, and Sturt in Chapter ix. This impressive projection is undertaking regional survey and selected excavations of sites in the territory of the Emigdiano Chumash, who inhabited the interior foothills and mountains a little distance due east of the coastal Franciscan missions. In featuring the Tashlipun/Runnaway Camp, Pinwheel, and Santiago locales, they show how detailed investigations of outlying sties can provide incredible information about the political economies, social relationships, and cultural practices of hinterland peoples before, during, and later the mission period... "

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This chapter examines the ontology of Ethnic Due south-Cardinal California with a focus on the col... more This chapter examines the ontology of Indigenous S-Primal California with a focus on the colorful pictographs of the Chumash. I debate that interpretations of stone fine art from shamanic perspectives has dehistoricized the art and bandage imagery within essentialist cerebral terms, effectively curtailing the possibility of interpreting the images equally something more than the standard outward expression of a universal neuropsychological function. By contrast, considering Indigenous ontologies affords a much ameliorate understanding of both rock art and Native perceptions of their environment, allowing us to move closer to an emic perspective and to appreciate Indigenous social dynamics and rock art in social rather than cerebral terms.

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As some of yous already know, UCLAN archæology is teaming upward with Brendan Cassidy from UCLAN Comp... more than As some of you already know, UCLAN archæology is teaming up with Brendan Cassidy from UCLAN Computing in making amazing VR immersive models of our sites and finds. We showed this at our Open Day this weekend, and will be testing information technology out with the MSci'southward next week. We are collaborating with the Tejon Indians and other Native Californians along with the Wind Wolves Preserve on the VR content to provide educational material for local stakeholders. Very exciting stuff! Bank check out our video which shows some of the VR functions at Brendan'due south new Immersive Academy youtube aqueduct: https://www.youtube.com/lookout man?v=PJRHUcC0xa8&t=5s

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