Rock Art in the Americas: Mythology Cosmogony and Rituals : Proceedings of the 2nd REEA Conference Ritual Americas: Configurations and Recombining of the Ritual Devices and Behaviors in the New World,

Contents: Introduction (Francoise Fauconnier and Serge Lemaitre); 1) Rock art sites as spiritual places ? Canadian Shield rock art as part of the Algonquian sacred landscape (Daniel Arsenault); 2) Thunderbirds and Horned Snakes: Cosmogony at Canadian Rock Art Sites (Serge Lemaitre); 3) Cueva de la Serpiente: Interpretive Analysis of an Archaic Great Mural Rock Art Panel, Mulege, Baja California Sur, Mexico (Roberto Martinez, Larissa Mendoza and Ramon Vinas); 4) El Salto del Perro, Durango, Mexico: La construccion de un paisaje sagrado en los confines de Mesoamerica (Fernando Berrojalbiz y Marie-Areti Hers); 5) Paisaje y petrograbados del sitio de la Ferreria, Durango, Mexico (Jose Luis Punzo Diaz); 6) Imagenes de guerreros en el arte rupestre del norte de Michoacan. Una aproximacion a los ritos de los cazadores recolectores del Posclasico (Brigitte Faugere); 7) The Cave of the Bat, a Primordial Cave of the Sun, Acapulco, Mexico (Martha Cabrera Guerrero); 8) Myths and Oral Tradition in the Study of Rock Art: High Plains of Cundinamarca-Boyaca, Past Ethnohistory and Country Folk Tradition (Guillermo Munoz C.); 9) The Rock Art of the Bochica Route. Possible Connections between Oral Tradition and Sense and Function of Rock Art (Judith Trujillo Tellez); 10) El arte rupestre del rio San Juan del Oro (Bolivia): Reflexiones sobre el simbolismo y la funcion de las imagenes (Francoise Fauconnier).