Heritage resources, non-renewable and culturally significant materials and places, provide a foun... more Heritage resources, non-renewable and culturally significant materials and places, provide a foundation for our collective past, present, and future. This heritage sustains both the spirit and direction for the nation as a whole and helps to maintain cultural continuity specifically for indigenous peoples. Federal heritage resources managers, primarily archaeologists, preserve and interpret these links to the past in the interest of the public and for the benefit of future generations. The in-place preservation of archaeological sites is vital to ensuring future access to culturally-significant places. The preservation process also involves protecting critical documentation about these resources.
Rock art sites, which must remain in situ (in place) due to their very nature, are especially susceptible to deterioration, damage, and destruction caused by both humans and natural processes. In addition to threats to the rock art itself, the existing documentation or legacy data about these fragile resources often remains vulnerable to neglect or disregard. Federal land-managing agencies, in particular, have large amounts of legacy data about heritage resources. These data are just as valuable as the materials and places they document.
I suggest that heritage resources managers use legacy data to enhance knowledge about archaeological materials and sites. This thesis outlines a preservation and analytic process applicable to all types of archaeological legacy data. The process standardizes and digitizes data for formal analysis, helps heritage resources managers to identify data gaps, and improves the management of known heritage resources.
A case study of the rock art of the Kaibab Plateau, which lies on the north rim of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, demonstrates this methodology. This thesis examines the 261 known rock art sites of the North Kaibab Ranger District (NKRD), a management area of the Kaibab National Forest, through statistical and spatial analyses. I use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to evaluate the rock art from a landscape-based perspective. These quantitative analyses comprise both research and management variables that evaluate rock art morphology, rock art style, panel and element frequency, landscape factors, and management attributes. This analysis provides the first comprehensive investigation of a specific archaeological phenomenon across the entire Kaibab Plateau region.
Heritage resources, non-renewable and culturally significant materials and places, provide a foun... more Heritage resources, non-renewable and culturally significant materials and places, provide a foundation for our collective past, present, and future. This heritage sustains both the spirit and direction for the nation as a whole and helps to maintain cultural continuity specifically for indigenous peoples. Federal heritage resources managers, primarily archaeologists, preserve and interpret these links to the past in the interest of the public and for the benefit of future generations. The in-place preservation of archaeological sites is vital to ensuring future access to culturally-significant places. The preservation process also involves protecting critical documentation about these resources. Rock art sites, which must remain in situ (in place) due to their very nature, are especially susceptible to deterioration, damage, and destruction caused by both humans and natural processes. In addition to threats to the rock art itself, the existing documentation or legacy data about these fragile resources often remains vulnerable to neglect or disregard. Federal land-managing agencies, in particular, have large amounts of legacy data about heritage resources. These data are just as valuable as the materials and places they document. I suggest that heritage resources managers use legacy data to enhance knowledge about archaeological materials and sites. This thesis outlines a preservation and analytic process applicable to all types of archaeological legacy data. The process standardizes and digitizes data for formal analysis, helps heritage resources managers to identify data gaps, and improves the management of known heritage resources. A case study of the rock art of the Kaibab Plateau, which lies on the north rim of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, demonstrates this methodology. This thesis examines the 261 known rock art sites of the North Kaibab Ranger District (NKRD), a management area of the Kaibab National Forest, through statistical and spatial analyses. I use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to evaluate the rock art from a landscape-based perspective. These quantitative analyses comprise both research and management variables that evaluate rock art morphology, rock art style, panel and element frequency, landscape factors, and management attributes. This analysis provides the first comprehensive investigation of a specific archaeological phenomenon across the entire Kaibab Plateau region.
Heritage resources, non-renewable and culturally significant materials and places, provide a foun... more Heritage resources, non-renewable and culturally significant materials and places, provide a foundation for our collective past, present, and future. This heritage sustains both the spirit and direction for the nation as a whole and helps to maintain cultural continuity specifically for indigenous peoples. Federal heritage resources managers, primarily archaeologists, preserve and interpret these links to the past in the interest of the public and for the benefit of future generations. The in-place preservation of archaeological sites is vital to ensuring future access to culturally-significant places. The preservation process also involves protecting critical documentation about these resources.
Rock art sites, which must remain in situ (in place) due to their very nature, are especially susceptible to deterioration, damage, and destruction caused by both humans and natural processes. In addition to threats to the rock art itself, the existing documentation or legacy data about these fragile resources often remains vulnerable to neglect or disregard. Federal land-managing agencies, in particular, have large amounts of legacy data about heritage resources. These data are just as valuable as the materials and places they document.
I suggest that heritage resources managers use legacy data to enhance knowledge about archaeological materials and sites. This thesis outlines a preservation and analytic process applicable to all types of archaeological legacy data. The process standardizes and digitizes data for formal analysis, helps heritage resources managers to identify data gaps, and improves the management of known heritage resources.
A case study of the rock art of the Kaibab Plateau, which lies on the north rim of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, demonstrates this methodology. This thesis examines the 261 known rock art sites of the North Kaibab Ranger District (NKRD), a management area of the Kaibab National Forest, through statistical and spatial analyses. I use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to evaluate the rock art from a landscape-based perspective. These quantitative analyses comprise both research and management variables that evaluate rock art morphology, rock art style, panel and element frequency, landscape factors, and management attributes. This analysis provides the first comprehensive investigation of a specific archaeological phenomenon across the entire Kaibab Plateau region.
Heritage resources, non-renewable and culturally significant materials and places, provide a foun... more Heritage resources, non-renewable and culturally significant materials and places, provide a foundation for our collective past, present, and future. This heritage sustains both the spirit and direction for the nation as a whole and helps to maintain cultural continuity specifically for indigenous peoples. Federal heritage resources managers, primarily archaeologists, preserve and interpret these links to the past in the interest of the public and for the benefit of future generations. The in-place preservation of archaeological sites is vital to ensuring future access to culturally-significant places. The preservation process also involves protecting critical documentation about these resources. Rock art sites, which must remain in situ (in place) due to their very nature, are especially susceptible to deterioration, damage, and destruction caused by both humans and natural processes. In addition to threats to the rock art itself, the existing documentation or legacy data about these fragile resources often remains vulnerable to neglect or disregard. Federal land-managing agencies, in particular, have large amounts of legacy data about heritage resources. These data are just as valuable as the materials and places they document. I suggest that heritage resources managers use legacy data to enhance knowledge about archaeological materials and sites. This thesis outlines a preservation and analytic process applicable to all types of archaeological legacy data. The process standardizes and digitizes data for formal analysis, helps heritage resources managers to identify data gaps, and improves the management of known heritage resources. A case study of the rock art of the Kaibab Plateau, which lies on the north rim of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, demonstrates this methodology. This thesis examines the 261 known rock art sites of the North Kaibab Ranger District (NKRD), a management area of the Kaibab National Forest, through statistical and spatial analyses. I use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to evaluate the rock art from a landscape-based perspective. These quantitative analyses comprise both research and management variables that evaluate rock art morphology, rock art style, panel and element frequency, landscape factors, and management attributes. This analysis provides the first comprehensive investigation of a specific archaeological phenomenon across the entire Kaibab Plateau region.
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Rock art sites, which must remain in situ (in place) due to their very nature, are especially susceptible to deterioration, damage, and destruction caused by both humans and natural processes. In addition to threats to the rock art itself, the existing documentation or legacy data about these fragile resources often remains vulnerable to neglect or disregard. Federal land-managing agencies, in particular, have large amounts of legacy data about heritage resources. These data are just as valuable as the materials and places they document.
I suggest that heritage resources managers use legacy data to enhance knowledge about archaeological materials and sites. This thesis outlines a preservation and analytic process applicable to all types of archaeological legacy data. The process standardizes and digitizes data for formal analysis, helps heritage resources managers to identify data gaps, and improves the management of known heritage resources.
A case study of the rock art of the Kaibab Plateau, which lies on the north rim of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, demonstrates this methodology. This thesis examines the 261 known rock art sites of the North Kaibab Ranger District (NKRD), a management area of the Kaibab National Forest, through statistical and spatial analyses. I use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to evaluate the rock art from a landscape-based perspective. These quantitative analyses comprise both research and management variables that evaluate rock art morphology, rock art style, panel and element frequency, landscape factors, and management attributes. This analysis provides the first comprehensive investigation of a specific archaeological phenomenon across the entire Kaibab Plateau region.
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Rock art sites, which must remain in situ (in place) due to their very nature, are especially susceptible to deterioration, damage, and destruction caused by both humans and natural processes. In addition to threats to the rock art itself, the existing documentation or legacy data about these fragile resources often remains vulnerable to neglect or disregard. Federal land-managing agencies, in particular, have large amounts of legacy data about heritage resources. These data are just as valuable as the materials and places they document.
I suggest that heritage resources managers use legacy data to enhance knowledge about archaeological materials and sites. This thesis outlines a preservation and analytic process applicable to all types of archaeological legacy data. The process standardizes and digitizes data for formal analysis, helps heritage resources managers to identify data gaps, and improves the management of known heritage resources.
A case study of the rock art of the Kaibab Plateau, which lies on the north rim of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, demonstrates this methodology. This thesis examines the 261 known rock art sites of the North Kaibab Ranger District (NKRD), a management area of the Kaibab National Forest, through statistical and spatial analyses. I use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to evaluate the rock art from a landscape-based perspective. These quantitative analyses comprise both research and management variables that evaluate rock art morphology, rock art style, panel and element frequency, landscape factors, and management attributes. This analysis provides the first comprehensive investigation of a specific archaeological phenomenon across the entire Kaibab Plateau region.