Meeting Time and Place
SNRAA meetings are held the fourth Monday of each month from 7:00-9:00 P.M. at the REI store in Boca Park,
710 S. Rampart Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV 89145. (702) 951-4488.
REI website: http://www.rei.com/bocapark
Directions: http://www.rei.com/map/store/130
January Field Trip
No field trip
See MEMBERS’ PAGE for details
Featured Speaker
February 27, 2012
François Gohier
“A Photographic Overview of Fremont Rock Art”
What we call the Fremont Culture is found mostly in Utah north of the Colorado River, and in neighboring areas of Eastern Nevada, Southern Idaho and Wyoming, and Northwestern Colorado. Time frame is approximately AD 400 to AD 1300. The Fremont built pithouses, lived in hamlets and villages, grew maize and beans, and hunted wild game. By AD 1350, the Fremont way of life disappears from the archaeological record. They left a large corpus of rock art.
We’ll show images of Fremont rock art sites. We’ll examine the possible influence on the Fremont artists of images made by people who preceded them in the region (petroglyphs of the Glen Canyon Linear Style and Basketmaker, and paintings of the Barrier Canyon Style.) It is quite clear that the Fremont artists followed stylistic conventions of their own, best expressed in their distinctive representations of anthropomorphs.
We’ll end with a discussion of the possible significance of the spectacular images at McConkie Ranch and Dinosaur National Monument in northeastern Utah. In her landmark study of the Rock Art of Utah (1971), Polly Schaafsma based her definition of the “Classic Vernal Style” on panels found at these sites.
About the Speaker
François Gohier has been a full time nature photographer since 1973. He grew up in the Basque country of Southwest France, where he became familiar with the paintings left by our Paleolithic ancestors in the caves of the region. He has widely traveled in North and South America and other parts of the world.
Over the past 20 years François has photographed rock art sites in the western United States. His work on the Fremont Culture is featured in the recent book Traces of Fremont (The University of Utah Press, 2010)
Meeting Agenda for Monday, February 27
REI at 710 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89145
6:45 to 7:15 Set-up, Sign in, business report, announcements
Updating the Bylaws
7:15 to 8:30: Guest Speaker: François Gohier
8:30 to 8:45 Questions, wrap-up
February 16 Lecture at UNLV Barrick Museum on water and Pueblo cultures
June 15-20, Mimbres Ruins and Rock Art of New Mexico
The link below introduces a Hopi Petroglyph Sites Digital Preservation Project Website.
http://archive.cyark.org/hopi-petroglyph-sites-intro
SPEAKERs
February 27
François Gohier
A Photographic Overview of Fremont Rock Art
March 26
Courtney Smith
“An Introduction to the Patterned Body Rock Art of the Southwestern United States”
April 23
TBA
May 28
Chuck Williams
“Creating Layered Map Features Using Google Earth”
