China Rock Art Recording and Digital Resource Management project 2009-2010
(Arizona State University)
This project was not the normal field project but one to visit cultural resource sites (primarily rock art sites) with Chinese cultural resource managers to demonstrate digital recording and management methods. Supported by the CCK Foundation, it also included presentations, a workshop, and many many official dinners.
In 2009, we went on a whirlwind odyssey from Beijing through Inner Mongolia by plane, train, bus, and SUV (but not camels). We touched down in Baotau, Wuhai, Bayan Nur, Alxa Zouqi, Alxa Youqi, and the remote dunes of the Badain Jaran Desert. The landscape that we call the Gobi Desert was wild, forbidding, and beautiful (if you like geological formations like I do). The rock art was equally diverse and exotic.
In 2010, we went to a very different environment of far southern China and the small town of Ningming. Here we organized a workshop–with presentations on spatial technologies, databases and museums (by Margaret, my wife), and on digital rock art recording (by Spanish colleague Ines Domingo Sanz). We also visited the amazing Huashan pictograph site along the Ming River, with thousands of anthropoid and animal images on cliffs above the river. It was tropical, lush, and very steamy.
2009: NW China and Inner Mongolia
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2010: Guangxi Province, S China
Image Captions and Locations
| Image# | Caption | Coordinates | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Train from Baotou to Wuhai (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 02 | Su Sheng, co-PI (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 03 | Lu YuanCao, photographer who accompanied us (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 04 | From Wuhai to rock art museum (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 05 | Wuhai rock art museum (2009) | 39.59397˚ N, 106.91489˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 06 | Amazing petroglyphs, forbidding landscape (2009) | 39.593884˚ N, 106.91491˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 07 | One of the petroglyphs (2009) | 39.593329˚ N, 106.91339˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 08 | Lu and rock art (2009) | 39.743819˚ N, 106.89872˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 09 | Like travelers from another century (2009) | 39.729541˚ N, 106.90162˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 10 | More petroglyphs near Wuhai (2009) | 39.729706˚ N, 106.90298˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 11 | Wuhai museum - a world away from the canyons (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 12 | Gengis Khan is revered. Mongolian furniture museum (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 13 | A Mongolian breakfast: salted milk tea and mutton (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 14 | Meeting and presentation in Bayan Nur (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 15 | Meeting and presentation in Bayan Nur (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 16 | I had to toast with the Mayor of Bayan Nur (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 17 | And then toast with the regional Party leader (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 18 | In the desert beyond Bayan Nur (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 19 | Gobi (=stoney desert) near Bayan Nur (2009) | 40.753265˚ N, 106.36483˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 20 | The Gobi seems barren of all life. Then we encountered camels (2009) | 40.753183˚ N, 106.36487˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 21 | Further into the desert (2009) | 40.759949˚ N, 106.36132˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 22 | A different kind of petroglyph (2009) | 40.764457˚ N, 106.35861˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 23 | Elaborate petroglyphs near Bayan Nur (2009) | 40.765405˚ N, 106.3601˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 24 | An ancient camel rider (2009) | 40.765386˚ N, 106.36018˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 25 | A path to…? Near Bayan Nur (2009) | 40.76441˚ N, 106.36386˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 26 | A Han Dynasty fort along a former course of the Yellow River. Now Gobi (2009) | 40.774457˚ N, 106.50096˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 27 | Our lunch stop. Haute Not cuisine! I got sick the next day (2009) | 40.760238˚ N, 106.49321˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 28 | Aobao (memorial) to Wulan (woman general in Genghis Khan’s army) (2009) | 40.75484˚ N, 106.48974˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 29 | The road to a Buddist shrine (2009) | 40.647654˚ N, 106.3909˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 30 | The long climb to a holy place (2009) | 40.580692˚ N, 106.30998˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 31 | And here it is… Completely natural… (2009) | 40.577809˚ N, 106.30847˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 32 | Aobao’s near the shrine (2009) | 40.579355˚ N, 106.30968˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 33 | Canal from the Huang He (Yellow River) transforms the landscape near Bayan Nur (2009) | 41.270467˚ N, 108.16695˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 34 | Mongolian “horsemen” and sheep near Bayan Nur (2009) | 41.354013˚ N, 107.94533˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 35 | A different landscape for rock art near Bayan Nur (2009) | 41.366883˚ N, 108.00668˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 36 | Can you see the tiger? (2009) | 41.366803˚ N, 108.0069˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 37 | More animal motifs (2009) | 41.375915˚ N, 108.01397˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 38 | Even lithics (2009) | 41.366718˚ N, 108.00701˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 39 | Recording rock art (2009) | 41.375968˚ N, 108.0141˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 40 | An early section of the “great wall” near Bayan Nur (2009) | 41.367668˚ N, 108.09284˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 41 | A row of standing stones. Associated with…? (2009) | 41.363224˚ N, 108.1596˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 42 | Down another non-road (2009) | 41.348575˚ N, 108.16309˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 43 | ‘Welcoming committee’ in Alxa Zouq (2009)/title> | ||
| 44 | A Mondolian supper. Alxa Zouq (2009)/title> | ||
| 45 | From Alxa Zouqi to Alxa Youqi | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 46 | Camels in the desert; we didn’t ride them (2009) | 40.251363˚ N, 104.54221˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 47 | Mandala Mt. rock art park, near Alxa Youqi (2009) | 39.895044˚ N, 103.76567˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 48 | The path to the top. Mandala Mt. rock art park, near Alxa Youqi (2009) | 39.896799˚ N, 103.77414˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 49 | Mandala Mt. rock art park, near Alxa Youqi (2009) | 39.900854˚ N, 103.77887˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 50 | Mandala Mt. rock art park, near Alxa Youqi (2009) | 39.900917˚ N, 103.77831˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 51 | Mandala Mt. rock art park, near Alxa Youqi (2009) | 39.900925˚ N, 103.77794˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 52 | Mandala Mt. rock art park, near Alxa Youqi (2009) | 39.900431˚ N, 103.7772˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 53 | The tribe. Mandala Mt. rock art park, near Alxa Youqi (2009) | 39.900996˚ N, 103.77774˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 54 | A great view. Mandala Mt. rock art park, near Alxa Youqi (2009) | 39.900899˚ N, 103.77902˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 55 | View from the top. Mandala Mt. rock art park, near Alxa Youqi (2009) | 39.900934˚ N, 103.77769˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 56 | Mongolian welcome song. Alxa Youqi (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 57 | Badain Lake, Badain Jaran Desert (2009) | 39.552009˚ N, 102.36476˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 58 | The intrepid travelers. Badain Jaran Desert (2009) | 39.55195˚ N, 102.36492˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 59 | The world’s highest dunes. Badain Jaran Desert (2009) | 39.511445˚ N, 102.38886˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 60 | Pictographs in a rock shelter near Alxa Youqi (2009) | 39.609811˚ N, 102.93729˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 61 | Pictographs in a rock shelter near Alxa Youqi (2009) | 39.60981˚ N, 102.9373˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 62 | Interviews for local media (2009) | 44.065498˚ N, 113.8637˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 63 | Leaving Inner Mongolia (2009) | 39.530884˚ N, 105.50744˚ E | Inner Mongolia, China |
| 64 | Ningming, southern China. A very different landscape from Inner Mongolia (2010) | 22.140692˚ N, 107.0586˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 65 | Ming Dynasty tower. Ningming (2010) | 22.14134˚ N, 107.05656˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 66 | Street scene in Ningming (2010) | 22.13388˚ N, 107.06509˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 67 | Irrigating fields. Ningming (2010) | 22.139088˚ N, 107.05708˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 68 | Children of Ningming (2010) | 22.137245˚ N, 107.05759˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 69 | Ming River (2010) | 22.188947˚ N, 107.03582˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 70 | Taro fields near Ningming (2010) | 22.239438˚ N, 107.05169˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 71 | Along the Ming River (2010) | 22.242128˚ N, 107.04808˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 72 | Along the Ming River (2010) | 22.243538˚ N, 107.04506˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 73 | Along the Ming River (2010) | 22.244052˚ N, 107.03315˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 74 | Along the Ming River (2010) | 22.254255˚ N, 107.03367˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 75 | Pictographs on cliffs along the Ming River (2010) | 22.256644˚ N, 107.03467˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 76 | Pictographs on cliffs along the Ming River (2010) | 22.258889˚ N, 107.0352˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 77 | Pictographs on cliffs along the Ming River (2010) | 22.260325˚ N, 107.03416˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 78 | Pictographs on cliffs along the Ming River (2010) | 22.260434˚ N, 107.03376˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 79 | Paleosols in terraces of the Ming River (2010) | 22.253607˚ N, 107.01034˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 80 | Huashan pictograph site on Ming River (2010) | 22.255826˚ N, 107.00953˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 81 | Huashan pictograph site on Ming River (2010) | 22.25893˚ N, 107.01147˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 82 | Huashan pictograph site on Ming River (2010) | 22.25913˚ N, 107.01237˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 83 | Huashan pictograph site on Ming River (2010) | 22.259126˚ N, 107.01235˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 84 | Path to Huashan pictograph site on Ming River (2010) | 22.25729˚ N, 107.01195˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 85 | Huashan pictograph site on Ming River (2010) | 22.257524˚ N, 107.01194˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 86 | View from Huashan pictograph site on Ming River (2010) | 22.257524˚ N, 107.01194˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 87 | View from Huashan pictograph site on Ming River (2010) | 22.257524˚ N, 107.01194˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 88 | Huashan pictograph site on Ming River (2010) | 22.257524˚ N, 107.01194˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 89 | At the Huashan pictograph site on Ming River. It was hot and humid (2010) | 22.257524˚ N, 107.01194˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 90 | Media interview at the Huashan pictograph site on Ming River (2010) | 22.258931˚ N, 107.01169˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 91 | Workshop on digitial tools for cultural and natural resource management. Ningming (2010) | 23.8253˚ N, 108.7899˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 92 | Workshop on digitial tools for cultural and natural resource management. Ningming (2010)/title> | ||
| 93 | Workshop on digitial tools for cultural and natural resource management. Ningming (2010)/title> | ||
| 94 | An unusual musical interlude at the workshop. Ningming (2010)/title> | ||
| 95 | One of many official dinners. Ningming (2010) | 22.143915˚ N, 107.07029˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 96 | When the mayor takes you to a Karaoki club, everybody has to sing. Ningming (2010) | 22.138082˚ N, 107.06958˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 97 | At the regional cultural museum in Naning (2010) | 22.774757˚ N, 108.39828˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 98 | When the mayor takes you to a Karaoki club, everybody has to sing. Ningming (2010) | 22.138082˚ N, 107.06958˚ E | Guangxi, China |
| 99 | At the regional cultural museum in Naning (2010) | 22.774757˚ N, 108.39828˚ E | Guangxi, China |