As part of the third 'Art on the Rocks' colloquium organized by Neville Agnew, senior principal project specialist of the Getty Conservation Institute of Los Angeles, a group of rock art experts recently visited the Little Lake rock art complex in eastern California.

Atlatl petroglyph.

The group were guests of Jo Anne Van Tilburg, and assisted by Wendy All plus other members of the interdisciplinary research team of the UCLA Rock Art Archive, along with archaeologist and rock art expert David Whitley.

Little Lake rock art. #petroglyph loci in the cultural Great Basin in eastern California https://t.co/DYH5ZgGApn #archaeology pic.twitter.com/c5fRzJim1c

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Zoomorphic petroglyphs including the paw motif.

Zoomorphic petroglyphs, including the snake motif.

Little Lake is an interrelated complex of rock art loci in the cultural Great Basin. The scratched, pecked, and painted motifs can be found throughout the landscape. Little Lake is related to 3 settlement sites dating back to 6000 BP.

Research in the area has been presented in the publication:

'Rock Art at Little Lake: An Ancient Crossroads in the California Desert'

by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Gordon Hull, and John C. Bretney

The product of ten years of fieldwork at Little Lake Ranch in the Rose Valley, the southern gateway to the Owens Valley, this book presents the results of intensive rock art analyses carried out by the interdisciplinary research team of the UCLA Rock Art Archive.

To purchase the book:

http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/press/rock-art-little-lake

https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Art-Little-Lake-Crossroads/dp/1931745935