We bid best wishes to Mary Gorden who has decided to retire from the CRAF Board in order to devote more time to other areas of her life. Mary is one of the few original founders of CRAF and was instrumental in making CRAF's launch a success. We are extremely thankful for her countless contributions to CRAF and to the field of rock art studies. We are sad to have her leave our Board, but we hope we'll see her around. 
We wish Mary good luck in all her endeavors.    ​

Happy Holidays from CRAF!

It is time to renew your CRAF membership for 2017.
CRAF memberships and donations also make a great gift.

And don't forget you can shop through the links on our store page and a percentage of your purchases will benefit CRAF.

Just click a merchant link to be redirected to that online store and make your purchases as you normally would. The indicated percentage of the purchase price will be forwarded to CRAF. It doesn't cost you anything extra, and every little bit helps! Participating merchants include Amazon, Kohls, Nordstrom, Starbucks, Target, Fandango, and several more
http://www.carockart.org/store.html

Thank you for your continued support!

Rock Art 101
October 22-23, 2016

Field Trip to Little Petroglyph Canyon
November 12, 2016
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Click on our events page for more info or to register.
             

​Garfinkel, Alan P., Donald Austin, Paul Goldsmith, Adella Schroth and Ernest Siva
2016   Newberry Cave:  Ritual, Ceremony and Symbolism of the Mojave Desert Bighorn Hunters.  Rock Art Research, in press. 

Schwed, Alex and Alan P. Garfinkel
2016   Berlin’s Ethnological Museum:  The California Indian Collection.  Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, in press.
 
Mukhopadhyay, Tirtha Prasad, Alan P. Garfinkel
2016    Patterned Body Anthropomorphs of the Cosos:  How Might Concentric Circle Psychograms Function in Ethnographic Schemes?  Expression Number 13.  Quarterly e-journal of Atelier in cooperation with UISPP-CISNEP, international scientific commission on the intellectual and spiritual expressions of non-literate people.

Myth, Ritual and Rock Art: Decorated Animal People
and Animal Masters of the Coso Range
by Dr. Alan Garfinkel Gold

Sunday, October 2, 8:10 a.m.

Utah Rock Art Research Association, Annual Symposium
Delta, Utah
Civic Center, 305 W Main St
September 30 - October 3, 2016

CRAF is seeking new Board members for positions as Treasurer and for someone who specializes in grants.

We are developing a business plan for our department on Cultural Resource Management of rock art and Traditional Cultural Properties. Open to new members with Alta or Baja California rock art interests. We are especially interested in developing stronger ties to Baja California studies.  

Contact Christine Grimaldi Clarkson or Dr. Alan Garfinkel Gold if you would like to help with these or other CRAF efforts.

​Had a nice board meeting last night. Congratulations to Christine Grimaldi Clarkson who was elected to the CRAF Board. We are also seeking new Board members for positions as Treasurer and for someone who specializes in grants. We are developing a business plan for our department on Cultural Resource Management of rock art and Traditional Cultural Properties. Open to new members with Alta or Baja California rock art interests. We are especially interested in developing stronger ties to Baja California studies.  Contact Christine Grimaldi Clarkson if you would like to help with these or other CRAF efforts.

We hope you enjoy our new and improved web site.  Now you can pay your membership dues, make one-time, monthly, quarterly and annual donations, and register for upcoming events online.  You can also support CRAF by shopping in our new store.  We plan to have additional CRAF items for sale soon,  In the mean time, you can use the links on our store page to shop at any of the participating merchants and a percentage of your total sales will be donated to CRAF.  You can also follow CRAF on facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/279304198923416/

Talking Stone: Rock Art of the Cosos is a motion picture portrait of rock art in the California desert. It is produced by Paul Goldsmith, ASC cinematographer. Goldsmith is an Emmy and Oscar award winning film producer who is known for his keen eye and uncanny talent for weaving a captivating story line through words and pictures. CRAF is handling the California distribution of this exciting film.
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What is Talking Stone?

Hidden away in the canyons of a top-secret military base on the edge of the Mojave Desert is the largest concentration of rock art in North America. Created over thousands of years by a now vanished culture, it represents the oldest art in California. TALKING STONE, the film, explores the remote canyons and the mysteries surrounding these amazing images.

Watch the trailer:

Enjoy the trailer for the wonderful documentary Talking Stone. CRAF is honored to be facilitating the distribution of the film throughout the Californias (Alta and Baja). 

Excellent story from Bonnie Stevens:
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“A Northern Arizona University professor emeritus says he’s never seen anything like a recent find in the Utah desert. This, despite 25 years spent studying rock art at thousands of sites. Retired ethnolinguist Ekkehart Malotki is researching what could be the oldest known realistic engravings of Columbian mammoths in the Western Hemisphere: petroglyphs from the Ice Age near the San Juan River….”
You can read the full story here.