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- Title
'Big Bend Bold' Pictographs: Defining a New Rock Imagery Style in the Big Bend Region of Texas.
- Authors
Roberts, Timothy E.
- Abstract
Polly Schaafsma (1980:6) suggested that "recognition of rock art styles is basic to the ordering of data concerning rock art." While considerable progress has been made in the identification of rock imagery styles in the Lower Pecos and western Trans-Pecos regions of West Texas, the complexity of the rock imagery in the Big Bend region and decades of archeological neglect has, until recently, delayed the progress of such research in the Big Bend. However, recent reviews of the known rock imagery sites on Big Bend Ranch State Park, Presidio and Brewster counties, and the surrounding area have prompted the author to propose a new pictograph style—'Big Bend Bold'—for some of the rock paintings in this region. This proposed style is characterized by generally large-scale anthropomorphic figures, zoomorphs, geometrics, and abstract images, all of which are painted in black or greenish black. Big Bend Bold figures are further described as bold-lined or solid. This pictograph style may date as early as the Late Prehistoric period and continued into the early Historic period. These paintings are perhaps directly associated with early agriculturalists who were residing at La Junta de los Rios at the time.
- Subjects
BIG Bend Ranch State Park (Tex.); BIG Bend Region (Tex.); LA Junta de los Rios (Tex.); TEXAS; ROCK paintings; ROCK art (Archaeology); PREHISTORIC art; PREHISTORIC painting; PICTURE-writing
- Publication
Journal of Big Bend Studies, 2010, Vol 22, p81
- ISSN
1058-4617
- Publication type
Article