Zion Canyon Arts and Humanities Council is sponsoring Ancient Painters of the Colorado Plateau, a Utah Arts and Museums traveling exhibition that features 24 photographs by Utah State University professor Craig Law. The photos chronicle Utah’s prehistoric rock art. Located at the Canyon Community Center through May, these photographs are a small selection of images included in a greater documentary project called the Barrier Canyon Style Rock Art Project run by Law and project director David Sucec.
Utah is home to numerous world-class prehistoric rock art sites. This artwork provides a critical record of Utah’s and North America’s cultural history, yet these sites are virtually unprotected. To date, many sites have been seriously compromised by vandalism or accelerated aging and weathering.
In 1991, the Barrier Canyon Style Rock Art Project was started by Law and Sucec in response to growing alarm over this deterioration. Since incorporation, the BCS Project has sought to document any and all known sites of prehistoric Barrier Canyon rock art in Utah before it is lost. As of 2001, the project has photographed 212 sites. The complete documentation (without specific locations of sites) will be housed in the Special Collections Division of the Marriott Library at the University of Utah as a record and resource for anyone interested in the study of the Barrier Canyon style or Utah prehistoric rock art.
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…don’t understand why you didn’t use an image of Barrier Canyon style, instead of a mostly Ute style panel (just a matter of a thousand of years apart)?