Blurb:

Many indigenous groups in North America had – and sometimes still have – ritual specialists who negotiated a tiered cosmos (in one form or another). An analysis of this provides an effective framework for addressing the meanings and motivations behind Trans-Pecos pictographs and petroglyphs. This chapter sheds light on this hermeneutic framework, but also considers the nuances within the Trans-Pecos rock art corpus, and what we mean when we talk about rock art ‘regions’.