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- Title
THREE HUNDRED PICTOGRAPHS: DR. HARDISON AND A CENTURY OF PETIT JEAN MOUNTAIN ROCK ART DISCOVERY.
- Authors
Higgins Jr., Donald P.
- Abstract
In 1914, the wife and son of Dr . T. W. Hardison, a physician living on Petit Jean Mountain, reported finding red ocher pictographs in a cave on the southern bluff. Hardison's subsequent explorations as he visited patients in the rugged hill country led him to discover more. Following his successful effort to establish Petit Jean State Park in 1923, he realized that the rich cultural resource represented by the rock art might supplement the scenic beauty of the area as an attraction for visitors. With encouragement from the National Conference on State Parks, he and others explored the bluffs and canyons of the Mountain in the late 1920s specifically for rock art, and by the time he formally published his thoughts on the subject in 1955, he claimed to have found hundreds of pictographs. His detailed personal records, however, disappeared following his death in 1957, and most of the locations of these paintings were lost to science. It has remained for others to retrace Hardison's footsteps and scientifically document the amazing concentration of aboriginal art. Now 100 years after the Hardisons' first discoveries, the late doctor's statements regarding the profusion of rock art on Petit Jean Mountain are confirmed by recent site documentation.
- Subjects
PETIT Jean Mountain (Ark.); UNITED States; PICTURE-writing; HARDISON, Thomas William; ROCK art (Archaeology); HEMATITE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL expeditions; MAYAN hieroglyphics; PARKS; CONFERENCES &; conventions; HISTORY
- Publication
Arkansas Archeologist, 2014, Vol 53, p1
- ISSN
0004-1718
- Publication type
Article