Meeting Time and Place
Fourth Monday of each month from 6:45 - 8:30 P.M.
REI store in Boca Park
710 S. Rampart Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV 89145
REI website: http://www.rei.com/bocapark
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Upcoming Events
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Dennis DeVore
“The Strange Case of the Invisible Panel”
A new Barrier Canyon rock art panel in southeast Utah
Speaker for November 25, 2019
Dennis DeVore
“The Strange Case of the Invisible Panel”
2019
Jan. 28 Dave Manley “Photo Tour of Southwest Petroglyphs”
Feb. 25 Richard Jenkinson “Rock Art of the Dinetah: Stories of Heroes & Healing”
Mar. 25 Scott Seibel “Rock Art of the Phoenix Area”
Apr. 22 Carol Patterson “Form Follows Function: Western Basketmaker II”
May 27 Kish LaPierre “Well Protected Rock Art that most of us will Never See”
June 24 Darwin Johnson “Rock Art from the Vernal, Utah Area”
July 22 Edna Clem “Adventure to the Rock Paintings of Baja California”
Aug. 26 Ken Hedges “Petroglyphs in Hawaii”
Sept. 23 Jeanne Howerton “The Astonishing History of Primula nevadensis”
Oct. 28 Larry Loendorf “Coso and Dinwoody Petroglyphs”
Nov. 25 Dennis DeVore “The Curious Case of the Invisible Panel
In October 2017, a previously unknown Barrier Canyon Style pictograph panel was discovered in the Robbers Roost area of southeast Utah. (People have been hiking past it for many years without noticing anything on the canyon walls there.) The panel is billboard size -- 70 feet long x 15 feet high in places -- making it one of the largest BCS panels known to exist. On the other hand, the archaic images are faint and barely visible to the human eye. Fortunately, the panel responds quite well to Photoshop and Dstretch — revealing, for the first time, dozens of new and detailed BCS figures.
This presentation will look at the background and discovery of the panel; then demonstrate the near magical capabilities of our modern photo-editing software. And lastly, the presentation will include a photo round-robin, comparing elements of the new panel with other well-known BCS panels, and hopefully conclude with a “best fit” in terms of age, motif, and artistic style.
Dennis is a Colorado native who explores the Four Corners area for rock art as a post-retirement hobby. He graduated from Colorado State University in 1976 with a BS in Economics, followed by a career in real estate appraisal and right-of-way acquisition. He is a longtime member of the Chipeta Chapter of CAS, and a current board member of URARA, the Utah Rock Art Research Association. Dennis and his wife Judi have lived in Grand Junction since 2000.
The Panel
(Of course you can’t see it — it’s invisible!)
But I know it’s great, so come see what Dennis DeVore has discovered.
Examples of Barrier Canyon pictographs
