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Morales, Reinaldo Jr., and Howard Risatti. “Pre-Columbian Rock Art and Sensitive Cognition.” In Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art. A Festschrift in honour of John Kay Clegg 11 January 1935 – 1 March 2015, edited by Jillian Huntley and George Nash, 9–24. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2019. {see the Archaeopress open access page here}

Morales, Reinaldo, Jr. “North American Rock Art Research 2010–2014.” In Rock Art Studies: News of the World V, edited by Paul Bahn, Natalie Franklin, Matthias Strecker, and Ekaterina Devlet, 225–243. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2016. {see the Archaeopress open access page here}

Farmer, James D., and Reinaldo Morales Jr., eds. “Great Mural Traditions of the American Southwest.” In Ancient Hands Around the World: International Federation of Rock Art Organizations 2013 Abstracts, 36–41. Glendale, AZ: American Rock Art Research Association, 2013. {including: Morales, Reinaldo, Jr. “1492 BC: The Golden Age of American Anthropomorphism.”}

Morales, Reinaldo, Jr. “Considerations on the Art and Aesthetics of Rock Art.” In Aesthetics and Rock Art, edited by Thomas Heyd and John Clegg, 61-74. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2005.

Morales, Reinaldo, Jr., and Melisa Quesenberry. “A Niche in Time: JD-5, Caribbean Cave Art, and the Fourth Dimension.” American Indian Rock Art, 31 (2005): 34–56.

Morales, Reinaldo, Jr. “The Angelim Style and Northeast Brazilian Rock Art.” In Making Marks: Graduate Studies in Rock Art Research at the New Millennium, edited by Jennifer K. K. Huang and Elisabeth V. Culley, 27–39. Tucson AZ: American Rock Art Research Association, 2005.

Morales, Reinaldo, Jr. “Masked Rites and Rock Art: Presenting the Past in Indigenous Brazilian Art.” In New Scholars/New Ideas 2003-2004. Compiled by James Farmer, Timothy Andrus and Michael Schreffler. Vols 9 and 10. Richmond, VA: VCU Arts, Department of Art History, 2005.

Morales, Reinaldo, Jr., and Claudia Cunha. “Chapada Diamantina Rock Art: New Evidence of Nordeste Tradition Rock Art in Bahia, Brazil.” American Indian Rock Art, 30 (2004): 137–148.

Morales, Reinaldo, Jr. “Art and Rock Art: Clarifying the Misconceptions.” Utah Rock Art 20 (2000): 49–62.

Morales, Reinaldo, Jr. “A Style Analysis of Prehistoric Miniature Paintings in Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico.” Lincoln National Forest Cultural Resources Report 2011-08-011. Alamogordo, NM, 2010.

Morales, Reinaldo, Jr. “The Nordeste Tradition: Innovation and Continuity in Brazilian Rock Art.” Virginia Commonwealth University, 2002. Director: James Farmer, Reader: Howard Risatti, Outside Reader: Terence Grieder.

Abstract, chapter excerpts, sample illustrations, and bibliography

Morales, Reinaldo, Jr. “Nordeste Paintings: The Case for a Pan-Archaic American Aesthetic.” Virginia Commonwealth University, 1998.

Abstract, sample illustrations and bibliography

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"Professor discovers Mesoamerican cave art," by Sophia Ordaz, The Echo at UCA, October 5, 2016 {issuu}

"Arkansas Vets Rediscover the Art of War," by Malcolm Glover, KUAR Public Radio from UA Little Rock, June 14, 2010 {download mp3}

New Rock Art at Old Machu Picchu: UCA professor discovers ancient rock painting, UCA News, April 14, 2009

"UCA professor discovers ancient rock painting," by By Miranda Grubbs, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, April 16, 2009

Some Readings on Style:

Irene Winter, "The Affective Properties of Styles: An Inquiry into Analytical Process and the Inscription of Meaning in Art History," in Picturing Science Producing Art, ed. Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison (New York: Routledge, 1998), 55-73. [brief excerpt]

Terence Grieder, Artist and Audience, 2nd ed. (Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark, 1996), 140. [brief excerpt]

Greg Urban on Style: "Style means a form of language use characterizable independently of the content or semantic meaning that is communicated, which constitutes a sign vehicle that contrasts with others in a culture" (Greg Urban, A Discourse Centered Approach to Culture: Native South American Myths and Rituals [Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991], 106).

Heinrich Wölfflin, Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art, trans. Marie Donald Mackie Hottinger (1932; New York: Dover, 1950).

Meyer Schapiro, "Style," in Anthropology Today: An Encyclopedic Inventory, ed. A. L. Kroeber (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953).

Berel Lang, ed., The Concept of Style, revised and expanded (1979; Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987).

Polly Schaafsma, "Form, Content and Function: Theory and Method in North American Rock Art Studies," in Advances of Archaeological Method and Theory, ed. by M. Schiffer, vol. 8, pp. 237-277 (New York: Academic Press, 1985).

Margaret W. Conkey and Christine Hastorf, eds. The Uses of Style in Archaeology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

DitoMorales.com Archives

Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil [archive]
Information on visiting the park (travel details, contacts, comments, and links).

Pedra Furada Complete [archive]
A series of photographs showing the entire rock art site.

U.S. Dollar Coin Design Candidate [archive]
Design #36 by Thomas D. Rogers Sr. featuring rock art (posted with permission in 1999).

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