A group of volunteers and students from the Rock Art Archive will be doing fieldwork at Little Lake (between Bishop and Mojave on US 395) for the seventh time since 1993. According to Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Archive Director, the four square mile area shows evidence of being a “crossroads of culture,” an efflorescence of rock art styles made over at least ten thousand years by different culture groups. Some were likely made by the Coso Shoshone and the Owens Valley Paiute. Documentation of the petroglyphs and pictographs involves searching rocky outcroppings, rock walls along the lake shores, and on a slope of volcanic boulders. Photographs are taken, location is ascertained, and tracings or sketches are made. Using the data collected, researchers plot the locations of the rock art on maps. Motif analyses may ultimately answer the question of whether the site is an example of a “hunting magic” location or one of more individualized shamanic activities. The goal is to conserve the site through documentation and “to produce a standardized data set that all rock art researchers can use,” adds Van Tilburg