Between a Rock and an Art Place

Do you like art? Do you like rocks? Well have we got the show for you! This fortnight your hosts Ken and Gabe are joined by Bryn Tapper (Memorial University) to discuss Indigenous pictographs and petroglyphs from Maine and the Maritimes. Bryn also discusses the importance of rock art sites for understanding Indigenous landscapes, ontologies, and shamanistic practices.

Show Notes

Bragdon, K. J. (2002). The interstices of literacy: Books and writings and their use in Native American southern New England. In W. L. Merrill and I. Goddard (Eds.). Anthropology, History, and American History: Essays in Honor of William Curtis Sturtevant (pp. 121–130). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Hedden, Mark H. (2004) Passamaquoddy Shamanism and Rock Art in Machias Bay, Maine. In Rock Art of Eastern North America, edited by C. Diaz-Grandos, and J.R. Duncan, pp. 319-343. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Mallory, Garrick (1894) Picture Writing of the American Indian. Smithsonian Institution–Bureau of Ethnology, Washington.

Molyneaux, Brian L. (1989) Concepts of humans and animals in Post-Contact Micmac rock art. In Animals into Art, edited by H. Morphy, pp. 193-214. One World Archaeology, Vol. 7. Unwin Hyman, Ltd., London.

Robinson, Brian S., and A. Sky Heller (2017) Maritime Culture Patterns and Animal Symbolism in Eastern Maine. Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 10:90-104.

Tapper, Bryn (2020) Exploring Relationality: Perspectives on the Research Narratives of the Rock Art of the Algonquian-Speaking Peoples of Central and Eastern Canada. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 27(3):723-744.

Tapper, Bryn, Oscar Moro Abadía, and Dagmara Zawadzka (2020) Representation and meaning in rock art: the case of Algonquian rock images. World Archaeology 52(3):449-462.

Hit Pieces

Newfoundland and Labrador “Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 2023” volume 22, https://www.gov.nl.ca/tcar/files/PAO-Review-Vol-22-2023.pdf

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Credits

Sponsors: APANB and ULeth SSHRC Exchange

Producer: Emanuel Akel