Over the course of four millennia, Native American rock artists in southern Texas followed an unchanged set of conventions in order to portray a cosmovision that continues to be acknowledged by Indigenous groups across the Americas. Drawing upon an “established iconographic vocabulary”, the ancient artists in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands adhered to a particular set of motifs in order to create enormous murals depicting metaphysical concepts such as circular time and the separation of the universe into multiple layers. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

“These paintings may be the oldest surviving visual record of the same core cosmology that later shaped Mesoamerican civilizations and is manifested today throughout Indigeno

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