Kansas Rock Art Analysis

In the state of Kansas there are 29 petrographic, and 1 pictographic sites. These sites have seen the movement and occupation of at least 10 tribal identities, not including Paleo-Indian, and Archaic traditions (O’Neill 1980, 19). As represented on the map of rock art sites, the majority of the works can be found in north central Kansas in the Smoky Hills region. In his work, Kansas Rock Art, Brian O’Neill describes the Smoky Hills region as a stretch of Dakota sandstone that separates the High Plains to the west and the Flint Hills to the east (O'Neill 1980, 3). This is the region where the site focused on is located. Territorially this region is part of the Kiowa, with the Pawnee to the north, and Arapaho/Cheyenne to the