Acknowledgements PROLOGUE: Is it possible to 'interpret' rock art? CHAPTER 1: Setting the scene: the historiography of rock art research in North America CHAPTER 2: Archaeology and people of the Texas Trans-Pecos CHAPTER 3: Trans-Pecos rock art: developing an interpretive framework CHAPTER 4: Rock art regions in theory and in practice: a comparative case study from Mpumalanga Province, South Africa CHAPTER 5: Regions, rituals, and altered states: an ethnographic approach to Trans-Pecos rock art CHAPTER 6: The Trans-Pecos rock art corpus: six diagnostic motifs CHAPTER 7: Process, transformation, and embodiment in the Trans-Pecos CHAPTER 8: Presenting rock art in the past, present, and future APPENDIX: Peyote use in the Greater Southwest References Index About the Author.