26 - Rock art and food producing societies. A systematic association.

María Cruz Berrocal (UC Berkeley, USA & Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain)

Sidsel Millerstrom (UC Berkeley, USA & National University of Ho chi Minh, Vietnam)

Rock art tends to be implicitly linked to hunting-gathering societies and its ways of understanding the landscape. Nonetheless, the production of rock art by agricultural and, in general, food producing societies, has been showed in a number of cases, and the study of this association deserves some attention.
We seek to gather case studies from throughout the world that show the link between rock art and food producing economies and infrastructures, in order to highlight this association and to further study its implications, in terms of the significance of rock art in the context of ‘complex’ societies.

Invitation

Dear colleague,

as part of the meeting Global Rock Art, International Congress of Rock Art, IFRAO, National Park Serra da Capivara, Piauí, Brazil (June 29-July 3, 2009), we are organizing a session aiming to stress the fact that food producing societies consistently use rock art as a strategy of landscape construction, as much as hunting-gathering societies do.
We would like to invite you to take part in that session and present a case study that highlight this association, providing the necessary information to, eventually, construct a systematic corpora of data that will open new avenues for approaching this problem.
We would be very pleased to have you attending the session.
Thank you very much for your attention.
Best regards,

María Cruz Berrocal
Sidsel Millerstrom

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