Abstract

ABSTRACTThe Barrier Canyon style is a rock art style occurring in the Colorado River drainage in Utah and northwestern Colorado. An estimated time frame for the style is the late Western Archaic era with suggestions for earlier dating. A major site with stylistically related paintings, Shamans' Gallery, was recently recorded in the western part of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. The imagery at this site consists of over 40 abstract, elongated anthropomorphic figures in several colors elaborated with intricate designs. Animals, circular elements, and linear patterns occur in association. Many episodes of overpainting and renewal are evident, and the site is believed to have been a focus of prehistoric ritual activity. The paintings suggest a complex ideological cultural dimension during the Archaic period in the Grand Canyon and also indicate interaction with hunter-gatherers on the Colorado Plateau to the northeast.

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