Sandals as Icons: Representations in Ancestral Pueblo Rock Art and Effigies in Stone and Wood

摘要: Dating the late 1000s to mid-1200s CE, petroglyphs of sandal images are among others that distinguish ancient Pueblo rock art in San Juan and Little Colorado River drainages on Plateau from Ancestral elsewhere across Southwest. The “track” also has counterparts as effigies stone wood often found ceremonial contexts sites. These representations reflect styles times, both plain contour jog-toed variety, latter characterized by a projection where little toe is positioned. patterned, their material counterparts. Their significance symbolic icons dominant aspect, ritual meaning implicit. As component symbol system was radically altered after 1300 however, there no ethnographic information provides clues icon’s meaning. While significant pattern its associations with other content petroglyph panels, some western sites cases relationship hunt can be inferred. It suggested track itself could refer deity, mythological hero, or carver ’s social identity. In conclusion, clear themselves forthcoming, further research beckons.