Taking this Show on the Road

APRIL 2019

On the Road Again...

This month our office chairs and hiking boots were abandoned for podiums and dress shoes as Shumla team members presented in Orlando, Austin and Albuquerque.

ORLANDO

Dr. Karen Steelman presented at the American Chemical Society Meeting and was selected as a "Must See" Speaker among thousands of presenters.

AUSTIN

Executive Director Jessica Lee presented at the Bullock Texas State History Museum "High Noon Talk" in front of a packed house.

ALBUQUERQUE

Carolyn Boyd, Amanda Castaneda, Jay Franklin, Charles Koenig, Jerod Roberts and Vicky Roberts (shown above) presented at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Meeting.

NEW PUBLICATION

Portable X-ray fluorescence of Lower Pecos painted pebbles: New insights regarding pigment choice and chronology

By Amanda Castaneda, Charles Koenig, Marvin Rowe, and Karen Steelman

CLICK HERE to read the whole article, free for a few more days!

SAA PRESENTATIONS

The team did a fantastic job. You wouldn't expect anything less! Here are their presentation titles.

Charles Koenig - Assessing Earth Oven Intensification in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas

Carolyn Boyd - Images in the Making: Process and Vivification in Pecos River Style Rock Art

Jerod Roberts - Assessing the Patterns and Variation of a Common Pecos River Style Motif - "Power Bundles"

Vicky Roberts - Bold Line Geometric: Revisiting a Lesser Known Rock Art Style in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas

Amanda Castaneda and Charles Koenig - Petroglyphs of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands: Preliminary Analysis of Context, Style and Chronology

Jay Franklin - A Techno-Morphological Analysis of Gravettian Stone Tools from Four Sites, Dordogne, France

We are working toward posting our presentations with voice-over by the Shumla presenters on our website for your view soon. We'll keep you posted!

DON'T MISS OUT!

Dr. Carolyn Boyd will speak at UT Austin on April 22 and April 24.

APRIL 22 - 4:30 PM

Mesoamerica Center April Colloquium

"The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative"

- Free and open to the public -

E. William Doty Fine Arts Building (DFA), 2.204 at 2301 Trinity St., Austin, TX 78712

APRIL 24 - 6:00 PM

UT Dept. of Art and Art History: Wednesday Evening Color Salons

"The White Shaman Mural: Cracking the Color Code"

- Free and open to the public -

UT Art Building (ART), Auditorium 1102 at 2301 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, TX 78712

Love Motif Monday?

Try Gigapan Thursday!

Every Thursday on Facebook, we are posting one of our public gigapan full-panel images or one of our 3D models of rock art and talking a bit about it. It's just another way for us to share with you the complexity and beauty of this art that has captured our hearts and minds.