Rock Art New Mexico

The Archaeological Society of New Mexico (ASNM) began documenting
rock art in the 1960s to help protect and preserve New Mexico’s ancient
heritage. As its program evolved its procedures became increasingly
systematic and have the potential for creating objectively descriptive
inventories of all human-made marks at rock art sites. ASNM-RARP data
are given to ARMS, the archaeological archive for the State of New
Mexico in both paper and digital form. The goal is to provide
researchers with a comprehensive, flexible, user-friendly data base

ASNM’s Rock Art Recording Projects will give workshops and field
training to potential rock art recorders in New Mexico, especially those
belonging to ASNM and ASNM affiliated archaeological societies. Contact
ASNM-RARP at <jjbrody@unm.edu>.

During the last decade, ASNM-RARP has created a data base of about
10,000 petroglyphs from sites in the Galisteo Basin southeast of Santa
Fe. Most were made by Pueblo people between about 1200 and 1700 but
many others were made by Archaic, Plains, Athabaskan, Hispanic, Anglo
and (perhaps) PaleoIndian people who lived in, used, or passed through
the area during the last eight or ten thousand years. The Galisteo Basin
program is a cooperative one with (among others) the Friends of
Archaeology and the Albuquerque Archaeological Society.


Contact the Webmaster	The Archaeological Society of New Mexico (ASNM) began documenting rock art in the 1960s to help protect and preserve New Mexico’s ancient heritage. As its program evolved its procedures became increasingly systematic and have the potential for creating objectively descriptive inventories of all human-made marks at rock art sites. ASNM-RARP data are given to ARMS, the archaeological archive for the State of New Mexico in both paper and digital form. The goal is to provide researchers with a comprehensive, flexible, user-friendly data base ASNM’s Rock Art Recording Projects will give workshops and field training to potential rock art recorders in New Mexico, especially those belonging to ASNM and ASNM affiliated archaeological societies. Contact ASNM-RARP at <jjbrody@unm.edu>. During the last decade, ASNM-RARP has created a data base of about 10,000 petroglyphs from sites in the Galisteo Basin southeast of Santa Fe. Most were made by Pueblo people between about 1200 and 1700 but many others were made by Archaic, Plains, Athabaskan, Hispanic, Anglo and (perhaps) PaleoIndian people who lived in, used, or passed through the area during the last eight or ten thousand years. The Galisteo Basin program is a cooperative one with (among others) the Friends of Archaeology and the Albuquerque Archaeological Society.