Welcome to the Shumla Publications Page! On this page, we share our publications on various topics such as rock art research, radiocarbon dating, and much more. Please check back as we are always adding more presentations to this page. Happy reading!
Two independent methods for dating rock art: Age determination of paint and oxalate layers at Eagle Cave, TX.
Lost Canyon West Shelter: New Pictograph Radiocarbon Dates
Discovering Hidden Layers with X-ray Vision: New Applications of pXRF to Rock Art Studies
Portable X-ray Fluorescence Analyses at the Meyers Spring Pictograph Site
Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Red Linear Style Figures at 41VV1000
Around the Lower Pecos in 1,095 Days: The Alexandria Project
2019 American Indian Rock Art, Volume 45, edited by Ken Hedges and Anne McConnell, pp. 147-160. American Rock Art Research Association.
Charles W. Koenig, Amanda M. Castañeda, Victoria L. Roberts, Jerod L. Roberts, Carolyn E. Boyd, and Karen L. Steelman
Radiocarbon Dating the Guadalupe Red Linear Style in the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico
2019 American Indian Rock Art, Volume 45, edited by Ken Hedges and Anne McConnell, pp. 115-129. American Rock Art Research Association.
Karen L. Steelman, Eric Dillingham, Margaret Berrier, Lennon N. Bates, Robert Mark, and Evelyn Billo
Portable X-ray fluorescence of Lower Pecos painted pebbles: New insights regarding pigment choice and chronology
2019 Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25: 56-71.
Amanda M.Castañeda, Charles W.Koenig, Marvin W.Rowe, Karen L. Steelman
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Cova Eirós: An Integrated Approach to Dating the Earliest Known Cave Art in NW Iberia
Karen L Steelman, Arturo de Lombera-Hermida, Ramón Viñas-Vallverdú, Xosé Pedro Rodríguez-Álvarez, Fernando Carrera-Ramírez, Albert Rubio-Mora, Ramon Fábregas-Valcarce
Strategies for 14C Dating the Oxtotitlán Cave Paintings, Guerrero, Mexico
2017 Advances in Archaeological Practice 5: 170-183.
Jon Russ, Mary D. Pohl, Christopher L. von Nagy, Karen L. Steelman, Heather Hurst, Leonard Ashby, Paul Schmidt, Eliseo F. Padilla Gutiérrez, and Marvin W. Rowe
Old Painted Zigzags in the Jornada Mogollon Region
A Black Deer at Black Cave: New Pictograph Radiocarbon Date for the Lower Pecos, Texas
2015 Journal of Texas Archeology and History 2: 45-57.
Lennon N. Bates, Amanda M. Castañeda, Carolyn E. Boyd, and Karen L. Steelman
Results from the first intensive dating program for pigment art in the Australian arid zone: insights into recent social complexity
2014 Journal of Archaeological Science 46: 195-204.
Jo McDonald, Karen L. Steelman, Peter Veth, Jeremy Mackey, Josh Loewen, Casey R. Thurber, T.P. Guilderson
Revisiting the Stylistic Classification of a Charcoal Pictograph in the Lower Pecos
Portable X‐Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Pictographs: A Case Study From the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, Texas
2014 Archaeometry 56: 168-186.
C. W. Koenig, A. M. Castañeda, C. E. Boyd, M. W. Rowe, K. L. Steelman
La peinture rupestre du Chaman blanc: Un recit cosmogonique au Texas
2013 Les Dossiers d’Archéologie 358: 72-75
Carolyn E. Boyd and Kim Cox
A Reassessment of Red Linear Pictographs in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas
2013 American Antiquity 78(3): 456-482.
Carolyn E. Boyd, Amanda M. Castañeda and Charles W. Koenig
Digital Documentation and the Archaeology of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands
2012 Virtual Archaeology Review 3(5): 98-103.
Carolyn E. Boyd, Francisco Marcos Marin, Christopher Goodmaster, Angel Johnson, Amanda M. Castañeda and Benjamin Dwyer
Lower Pecos Rock Art Recording and Preservation Project.
2011 Archaeological Institute of America: Heritage, Conservation and Archaeology. pp. 1-7.
Angel Johnson, Carolyn Boyd, and Amanda Castaneda
Chemistry as a Criterion for Selecting Pictographs for Radiocarbon Dating: Lost Again Shelter in the Guadalupe Mountains of Southeastern New Mexico
Marvin W. Rowe, Robert Mark, Evelyn Billo, Margaret Berrier, Karen L. Steelman, Eric Dillingham
El Arte Rupestre de Tejas: Análosis Contextual de Motivos Recurrentes en el Area de la Desembocadura del Río Pecos
Carolyn E. Boyd and Francisco A. Marcos Marin
Lower Pecos and Coahuila peyote: new radiocarbon dates
2006 Journal of Archaeological Science 33: 1017-1021.
Martin Terry, Karen L. Steelman, Thomas P. Guilderson, J. Philip Dering, Marvin W. Rowe
First Radiocarbon Dating of Oxalate Crusts Over Spanish Prehistoric Rock Art
Juan F. Ruiz, Marti Mas, Antonio Hernanz, Marvin W. Rowe, Karen L. Steelman, Jacque DuPriest, Jose M. Gavira
Direct radiocarbon dating of megalithic paints from north-west Iberia
K. L. Steelman, F. Carrera Ramírez, R. Fábregas Valcarce, T. Guilderson, and M. W. Rowe
AMS Dates from Four Late Prehistoric Period Rock Art Sites in West Central Montana
Sara A. Scott, Carl M. Davis, Karen L. Steelman, Marvin W. Rowe, Tom Guilderson
Non-destructive radiocarbon dating: Naturally mummified infant bundle from SW Texas
K. L. Steelman, M. W. Rowe, S. A. Turpin, T. Guilderson, L. Nightengale
Non-destructive plasma-chemical extraction of carbon from organic artefacts
San Pedro Eye of the Cave: Painting of the past dated for the present
Karen L. Steelman, Jane P. Childress, Jane Kolber, Marvin W. Rowe, and Thomas P. Guilderson
Comment on “some evidence of a date of first humans to arrive in Brazil”
Stable Isotope and Radiocarbon Analyses of a Black Deposit Associated with Pictographs at Little Lost River, Cave, Idaho
Radiocarbon Dates for Rock Paintings in Ignatievskaya Cave, Russia: Holocene Age for Supposed Pleistocene Fauna
Little Lost River Cave, Idaho: Electron Probe Microanalysis of a Black Deposit Associated with Pictographs
Radiocarbon Age Determination of a Rock Painting at Arnold/Tainter Cave, Wisconsin
Medicinal and Hallucinogenic Plants Identified in the Sediments and the Pictographs of the Lower Pecos, Texas Archaic
Carolyn E. Boyd and J. Philip Dering