Networking for Rock Art: Global Challenges, Local Solutions

This third volume by the Rock Art Network (RAN) presents the successes and challenges faced by rock art managers, researchers, conservators, and caretaker communities from around the globe, and describes how they are addressed through local action. A principal tenet of RAN is the potential for improved collaboration between professionals and communication with the public to positively affect the preservation of the world’s rock art. Over 50 entries detail how RAN members have engaged each other, the public, and the heritage to pursue this vision. Organized within a framework of its last two colloquia held in 2018 and 2019, this is the third in a series of GCI-organized rock art publications presenting the work of RAN. In 2018, RAN members visited rock art sites in California and Texas and organized a series of presentations at the Getty Conservation Institute. In 2019 the colloquium was held in France and Spain, visiting subterranean sites and their replicas, which are world-renowned and draw significant numbers of tourists. During these two meetings, RAN cemented its vision for the future of rock art preservation and charted a course for the organization’s future sustainability and contributions to the field.