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Rock Art Exhibit for Public Archaeology Week
Welcome Shumla blog readers. A special welcome to those joining us for the SAA online Public Archaeology Week! If this is your first time to learn about Shumla, we are a non-profit archaeological center conducting rigorous rock art documentation along the United...
Summer in the Lower Pecos: A Tale of Three Interns
By Megan Blackburn, Kasia Cross, and Dee Morris Welcome back to the Shumla blog! We’re the 2019 Shumla Summer Interns: Megan Blackburn, Deianira Morris, and Kasia Cross. We have organized our learning experience as interns at Shumla Archaeological Research and...
10 Days in Fate Bell Shelter
By Jerod Roberts and Vicky Roberts We knew from the beginning of The Alexandria Project that documenting Fate Bell Shelter was going to be a monumental task. A typical rock art site may take us only a few hours to complete our baseline level of documentation, while a...
Time Does Not Heal All: Observable Deterioration in the Rock Art of Seminole Watering Hole (41VV72)
**This blog is based on the poster presented by Hailey LaRock and Caitlin Houle at the 2018 Texas Archeological Society Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, titled: “Time Does Not Heal All: Observable Deterioration in the Rock Art of Seminole Watering Hole.” A...
Atlatls in Lower Pecos Rock Art
By Charles Koenig One of humanity’s oldest weapon systems is the atlatl, or spear thrower. The atlatl functions as a lever to throw a dart (or spear) with greater speed, distance, and accuracy than a hand-thrown spear. Atlatls were used by humans as early as 20,000...
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