Shield Bearing Warriors of Bear Gulch: NorthernPlains Rock Art

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What can rock art tell us about prehistoric warrior identity and places of power? By using the shield bearing warriors of Bear Gulch, Montana, I seek the underlying relationships inherent in the elements that make the warrior. The sheer number of shield bearing warriors (759+) at Bear Gulch suggests it is a place of power on the Northern Plains. Through contextualizing the rock art with the ethnographic record and utilizing statistical methods, these warriors can hint at identity and what role Bear Gulch played on the cultural landscape. This book is about rock art, identity, and a mental landscape. It contains the framework for the Ceremonial Rock Art Tradition through dreams, visions, religious structures, and cultural worldviews in a pans-Plains Indian sense. This is related to warrior and social identities and to the concept of a prehistoric cultural landscape. This book takes processual and post-processual steps for a truly scientific, anthropological look at the shield bearing warrior. This book is ideal for the rock art lover, archaeology and anthropology students, those curious about prehistoric military identity, and those who want to mingle statistics with rock art.