Shield Bearing Warriors of Bear Gulch: NorthernPlains Rock Art

What can rock art tell us about prehistoric warrioridentity and places of power? By using the shieldbearing warriors of Bear Gulch, Montana, I seek theunderlying relationships inherent in the elementsthat make the warrior. The sheer number of shieldbearing warriors (759+) at Bear Gulch suggests it isa place of power on the Northern Plains. Throughcontextualizing the rock art with the ethnographicrecord and utilizing statistical methods, thesewarriors can hint at identity and what roleBear Gulch played on the cultural landscape.This book is about rock art, identity, and a mentallandscape. It contains the framework for theCeremonial Rock Art Tradition through dreams,visions, religious structures, and culturalworldviews in a pans-Plains Indian sense. This isrelated to warrior and social identities and to theconcept of a prehistoric cultural landscape. Thisbook takes processual and post-processual steps for atruly scientific, anthropological look at the shieldbearing warrior. This book is ideal for the rock art lover,archaeology and anthropology students, those curiousabout prehistoric military identity, and those whowant to mingle statistics with rock art.... Mehr