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Lainie Posecion has won numerous awards for her research. |
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A rock art painting from the Lower Pecos region. |
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In March of 2000, Lainie Posecion received a research grant from the Shumla
School to conduct rock art research in the lower Pecos under the tutelage of
Dr. Carolyn Boyd. Lainie was enrolled as a Junior in the Science Research
Program at Saint Francis Preparatory School in New York. In 2001, her
research findings were presented at the Third Annual Science Research
Symposium, the New York City Academy of Sciences Expo, and the Junior
Science and Humanities Symposium. She received numerous awards for her
research, including the New York Science Talent Search Award conducted by
the Intel Science Talent Search and Vassar College, the Kodak Award for
Scientific Achievement, and the Eastman Kodak Photographic Award. Lainie is
now enrolled at Boston University.
Bilateral Duplication in Rock Art as a Sign of Dialectic Ideology in the
Lower Pecos, Texas Archaic
An on-site and off-site analysis of Pecos River Style rock art from
sixteen sites in the Lower Pecos region show that bilateral duplication —
two identical counterposed figures ÷ is a common motif in Lower Pecos rock
art produced 4,000 years ago. Fifteen of the sites analyzed by Ms. Posecion
contained the motif. Using data from neuropsychology and ethnographic
resources, she hypothesized that bilateral duplication may indicate the
presence of a dialectic ideology within the belief systems of the people
that produced the art. A dialectic ideology, according to Ms. Posecion,
implies the belief in good and evil and the belief of the existence of two
total and direct opposite elements which complement each other and maintain
balance in the universe. Her findings broaden our understanding of the rock
art and the hunting and gathering peoples who produced it.
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