The Rock Art Engravings of the Coso Range

Publications on the Rock Art of Coso

A resource list of publications on the Rock Art of Coso by Dr. Alan P. Garfinkel.

Garfinkel, Alan P.
2007 Archaeology and Rock Art of the Eastern Sierra and Great Basin Frontier. Maturango Museum Publication Number 22.  Maturango Museum, Ridgecrest, California.

2006 Paradigm Shifts, Rock Art Theory, and the Coso Sheep Cult of Eastern California.  North American Archaeologist 27(3):203-244.

2005 Comment on Clarus Backes’ “More Than Meets the Eye: Fluorescence Photography for Enhanced Analysis of Pictographs.”  Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 26(2):95-99.

2003 Dating “Classic” Coso Style Sheep Petroglyphs in the Coso Range and El Paso Mountains:  Implications for Regional Prehistory.  Society for California Archaeology Newsletter 37(4): 34-37.

Garfinkel, Alan P., Donald R. Austin, David Earle, and Harold Williams
2009 Myth, Ritual and Rock Art:  Coso Decorated Animal-Humans and the Animal Master.
Rock Art Research 26(2):179-197

Garfinkel, Alan P., Geron Marcom, and Robert A. Schiffman
2007 Culture Crisis and Rock Art Intensification:  Numic Ghost Dance Paintings and Coso Representational Petroglyphs.  American Indian Rock Art Volume 33, Don Christensen and Peggy Whitehead, editors, p. 83-103. American Rock Art Research Association, Tucson, Arizona.

Garfinkel, Alan P., David A. Young, and Robert M. Yohe, II
2010 Bighorn Hunting, Resource Depression, and Rock Art in the Coso Range of Eastern California:  A Computer Simulation Model.   Journal of Archaeological Science 37:42-51.


Bradshaw Foundation - Introduction to Coso Rock Art
Dr. Alan P. Garfinkel - About the Author
Dr. Alan P. Garfinkel - Introduction to the Research Paper
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The Coso Range Rock Art Gallery
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