S11D 



S11D

Room 2.102

The invisible in the visible: identifying potency and power in rock art imagery / L’invisible dans le visible : identifier la puissance et le pouvoir dans l’imagerie rupestre

Session organizers: Andrzej Rozwadowski, David Witelson

S11D , Wed Sep 2 2026, 9:00 - 13:30, Room 2.102

9:00-9:20 - Concepts of Potency in Eastern Cape Drakensberg Rock Paintings / David G. Pearce

9:20-9:40 - Weather-influencing forces and human–animal–spirit interactions in southern African San (Bushman) hunter-gatherer ethnography: some implications for rock art research / David Witelson

9:40-10:00 - Expressions of Power in Tanzanian Rock Art: Case Studies from the Usandawe area / Maciej Grzelczyk

10:00-10:20 - Similarity and Difference: Relational Aesthetics and Potency in the Rock Art of Serranía La Lindosa, Colombia / Yoanna I. Dimitrova

10:20-10:40 - How to Represent the Invisible, or What Can We Learn From Contemporary Indigenous Art? / Andrzej Rozwadowski

10:40-11:00 - Notes on North American Nagualism: Musicality and Power Acquisition from the Pacific Coast to the Pueblo Southwest / Chester R. Liwosz

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Animals and beyond: Ute petroglyphs in the Mesa Verde region, Colorado, USA / Radosław Palonka and Polly Schaafsma

11:50-12:10 - Power of the Sun: Hidden in Bronze Age Rock Art / Emilia Pasztor

12:10-12:30 - Tracing Ancient Paints: Results From the First In-Situ Examination of Rock Art in Alta, Norway / Elizabeth C. Velliky, Jan Magne Gjerde, Karin Tansem, Ingrid Sommerseth, Heidi Gustafson and Brandi L. MacDonald

12:30-12:50 - Rocks Pregnant with Meaning: Anthropomorphs and Animals in the Rock Art of Egypt’s Western Desert / Paweł L. Polkowski

12:50-13:10 - What Can Rock Art Tell Us About Early Egyptian Ontologies? / Sebastián F. Maydana

13:10-13:30 - Discussion

13:30-14:30 - Lunch