Rock Art and Ceramic Art in the Jornada Mogollon Region

ABSTRACT

Studies of rock art and painted ceramics largely have been separate domains of scholarship in the American Southwest, except in cases of rather obvious decorative overlap, such as Jornada Style rock art and Mimbres Black-on-white pottery. This paper calls attention to a small but important degree of parallel between Jornada Style rock art and painted ceramic designs in the Jornada Mogollon region. Researchers in the Southwest are urged to give more attention to similarities across these and other visual media.