2011 Buffalo Rock (11Js49) Site Conservation

Mark J. Wagner and Mary R. McCorvie

The Buffalo Rock site is a historic period pictograph site in southern Illinois that contains the states’ only known bison painting as well as several smaller paintings of a crescent moon, star, and cross (Figures 1 and 2). These paintings are believed to have been created between [...]

Possible Historic Period Native American Petroglyph Site Discovered in Central Illinois

In May, 2011, Mark Wagner (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) and Heather Carey (Shawnee National Forest) traveled to central Illinois to meet Hal Hassen (Illinois Department of Natural Resource) and Dawn Cobb (Illinois Historic Preservation Agency) to inspect a possible rock art site located on state land near, Pekin, Illinois. The site had been reported [...]

ESRARA Group Meeting

2013 Biennial Meeting

The 2013 biennial ESRARA meeting is tentatively scheduled to be held at Natural Bridge State Park in southeastern Kentucky in April, 2013. This meeting will represent the 20th anniversary of the Eastern States Rock Art Conference (ESRAC) meeting held at this same park in 1993 that led to the founding of [...]