War Stories

James D. Keyser earned his PhD from the University of Oregon. He has conducted rock art research across western North America and has authored more than 200 rock art publications including seven books. Among these are Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau, The Five Crows Ledger: Warrior Art of the Flathead Indians, and Art of the Warriors: Rock Art of the American Plains. He taught anthropology at SUNY-Buffalo and the University of Tulsa before retiring from the U.S. Forest Service. He splits his time between homes in Oregon and Italy.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface



Introduction



Chapter 1. Biographic Art as Picture Writing

Chapter 2. The Biographic Art Lexicon

Chapter 3. The Pictographic Dictionary

Chapter 4. Conventions and Connotations

Chapter 5. Reading the Narratives



Glossary



Appendix I: Site Names and Numbers for number of Figure 1.1, North and South Halves

Appendix II: Source Materials and site index for illustrations



Bibliography

Index