CRAF Talks

CRAF frequently provides talks on rock art related topics. Unless otherwise stated below, these educational opportunities are free and open to the public. CRAF typically has books, t-shirts and other CRAF items available for purchase at most events, and donations are always accepted and appreciated. Talks can be scheduled at any time and locations vary; we offer as much notice as possible. Please check here often for updated information.

If you would like to arrange a CRAF Talk or for a CRAF speaker to come to your area, event, school or university:
email Christine or (209) 201-8051.

Friday, February 21, 2020
6:00 pm

Hunting Desert Bighorn and the Study of Ancient Petroglyphs
Carlos Gallinger

Carlos Gallinger has been working in the Newberry Mountains for decades. This area has been the place of bighorn sheep religious rites and prehistoric desert bighorn hunters for over 4,000 years. Carlos will share his exciting and wondrous tale of tracking the sheep and his intensive effort to bring back a vibrant herd of sheep into this eastern Mojave landscape. After successfully accomplishing this effort over many decades he was honored to act as a hunting guide for two approved bighorn sheep hunts in the very mountains of his childhood and to acknowledge the intensive conservation efforts that made this possible. This is the first time in nearly 100 years that anyone has legally hunted bighorn in the Newberry Mountains.

Carlos will also share his deep and abiding love and study of these magnificent animals and his efforts at conservation and how this relates to the habits and habitat of the desert bighorn. His insights will
help us understand how rock art centrally showcases bighorn images and what they tell us about the past Native perspective.

*Free and open to the public
Donations are accepted

Hosted by the Merced College Anthropology Club
Merced College
3600 M Street
Merced, CA
Interdisciplinary Academic Center, IAC-110
Campus Map / Building Map
*Parking $1.00