Ellen Wade

Peter Pilles is the Coconino Forest Archaeologist. On October 17th, he will speak on the rock art of San Francisco Wash, which has one of the densest concentrations of rock art in the Flagstaff area. Although several rock art documentation projects have been conducted in this area, they have typically focused solely on the rock art, with little to no attention paid to other site types. How does the rock art fit into the overall land use and social organization of Sinagua society?

The San Francisco Wash Project seeks to address these questions with a long-term study of not only rock art within the canyon, but also the place rock art had in the larger Sinagua community of the San Francisco Wash locality.