OpportunityTitle: Rock Imagery Documentation and Virtual Tour
Description: Project Description: This project includes baseline documentation of rock art sites at Walnut Canyon National Monument (WACA, The Monument) and the production of a 3D virtual tour for the park&#226;&#191;&#191;s website. The Monument contains 20 rock imagery (petroglyphs and pictographs) sites associated with the late Archaic (2000 B.C. &#226;&#191;&#191; A.D. 500), northern Sinagua (A.D. 1100&#226;&#191;&#191;1250) and Yavapai/Apache (late 1800s &#226;&#191;&#191; mid-twentieth century). This project will complete baseline documentation at five sites. Tasks include archival research and completing scaled mapping, high-resolution digital photography, 3D imaging, and narrative and tabular data. The project also includes production of a virtual tour of Walnut Canyon rock imagery that will be published on the park&#226;&#191;&#191;s public website. This project will involve students from Northern Arizona University. At least one Anthropology / Archaeology Masters student and up to three undergraduate students will help with pre-field, fieldwork and post-field work tasks. These include archival research, preparing field equipment and learning the operation of technical gear, completing archaeology fieldwork (photography, GPS mapping, scaled drawings, data sheets) and post-field data entry and report writing. All phases of the project provide students with hands-on experience while learning from professional university and federal archaeologists.
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GrantorContactText: Grants Management Officer Kelly Adams &lt;br/&gt;Kelly_Adams@nps.gov&lt;br/&gt;