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James Harrison is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at
Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He has traveled throughout
the American Southwest photographing and documenting rock art. In January
2003, thanks to funding provided by the Rock Art Foundation, the Clements
Foundation, and several individual donors, James launched his Pecos River
Style Iconography Project in the lower Pecos River region of Texas. Between
January and May of 2003, he visited forty-one rock shelters containing Pecos
River Style rock art, amassing 1680 slides and 2664 digital images. The data
collected will be presented and analyzed in his master's thesis entitled
Spatial Boundaries: Considering Spatial Markers within the Pecos River
Style.
Spatial Boundaries: Considering Spatial Markers within the Pecos River
Style
The objective of James Harrison's thesis research is to analyze the
spatial distribution of anthropomorphic attributes throughout the lower
Pecos River region. Variation in the spatial distribution of such attributes
may demonstrate meaningful discontinuity, territorial circumscription, or
disparate cultural traditions within the common social networks and belief
systems demonstrated by the Pecos River Style rock art. If anthropomorphic
attributes are found only within a limited geographic area, they may
represent some type of clan, territorial, or ethnic marker. They may also
represent markers of individual artists, temporal markers, or markers of
particular mythological beings or deities. Through the data collected during
the Pecos River Style Iconography Project, James will begin to shed light on
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