ABSTRACT
Archaeologists might assume that rock art research, like other types of archaeological work, begins with fieldwork. In fact, this is not exactly correct. Any work we conduct is partly (if not largely) predetermined by the individual interests, theoretical concerns and biases, and methodological approaches we bring to our research. For example, someone interested in reconstructing prehistoric diet might choose to analyze only animal bones, consciously ignoring stone tool technology. This selectivity demonstrates that our explicit and implicit biases and interests determine what we record. Indeed, this fact is no better demonstrated than by rock art itself, which was too often ignored by previous generations of researchers.
