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Abstract
Throughout human global history, people have purposely altered natural rock surfaces by drilling, drawing, painting, incising, pecking, abrading and chiseling images into stone. Some rock types that present suitable media surfaces for these activities are fine-grained sandstones and granites, basalts, volcanic tuff, dolomites, and limestones. Commonly called rock "art," depiction of patterns, images, inscriptions, or graphic representations might be considered today as 'artistic' as is Old World Paleolithic “cave art” for example, but most of those early originators attached different cultural values to these expressions. Historic rock inscriptions made by literate persons are also of high value as "documents."
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Keywords
cultural resources,
heritage resources,
archaeology,
fire regime,
fire environment,
fuels management,
fire management,
fire planning,
wildfire,
prescribed fire,
First-Order fire effects,
Second-Order fire effects,
Third-Order fire effects,
Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER),
fire severity,
traditional cultural knowledge (TKE),
cultural landscapes
Citation
Kelly, Roger E.; McCarthy, Daniel F. 2012. Fire effects on rock images and similar cultural resources [Chapter 5]. In: Ryan, Kevin C.; Jones, Ann Trinkle; Koerner, Cassandra L.; Lee, Kristine M., tech. eds. Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on cultural resources and archaeology. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 3. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 113-130.
