Author Description

AIRA is an annualized publication that accepts manuscripts throughout the year. This year's publication offers the usual eclectic mix of papers covering a geographical range from Alaska to Kansas and dealing with topics such as archaeoastronomy, cupules, the Ghost Dance, graffiti as an expression of dialogue, symbolism and mythology, stylistic distinctions, and the impact of warfare. Preface / Don D. Christensen and Peggy Whitehead -- Kosciusko Island Alaska rock art / George Poetschat, James D. Keyser, and Terence E. Fifield -- Lava tube cave pictographs in the Great Rift of Southeastern Idaho / Carolynne L. Merrell -- The Indian Hill petroglyph site (14EW1), Ellsworth County, Kansas: new thoughts about some old questions / Timothy E. Roberts -- Overcoming the preservation paradigm: toward a dialogic approach to rock art and culture / Richard A. Rogers -- Mythology and symbols in North American rock art / Joe O'Connor -- Culture crisis and rock art intensification: Numic ghost dance paintings and Coso representational petroglyphs / Alan P. Garfinkel, Geron Marcom, and Robert A. Schiffman -- Atypical cupules at two rock art sites in southeastern Utah / Maarten van Hoek -- Rock art and settlement patterns in the Agua Fria National Monument / Pamela Kalish and William Nightwine -- Petroglyph calendar panel at Chavez Pass, Arizona / Gerald E. Snow -- Preformative and early formative rock art of the Kanab Creek Wilderness Area, Arizona / Don D. Christensen.