Abstract
Investigation of prehistoric and post-contact art of native North America presents new challenges to art history. Current theory and method in the discipline are inadequate to the task of reconstructing both the chronology and cultural meanings of especially prehistoric art. Although other circumstances have their role to play in the neglect of native art history by the discipline, it is largely the lack of written documents which poses the greatest difficulty. The methodological position that an authentic and valid art “history” requires the support of written records, however, is no longer tenable.
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