A Bazillion Sherds: COMPARING MIMBRES CERAMICS AND JORNADA STYLE ROCK ART by MARGARET BERRIER
May 19 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Margaret Berrier is a Jornada Research Institute Research Associate who focuses on the study of Indigenous expressionism through examples in ceramic designs and petroglyph and pictograph images.
Abstract:
The Jornada Mogollon and the Mimbres cultures both use stunning similar imagery and share iconography, and many researchers have compared examples of the distinctive black and white 
Mimbres ceramics from southwestern New Mexico to the imagery of Jornada Mogollon rock art. Most of these comparisons were done without the benefit of the entire Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database (MimPIDD) and depended on images of ceramics from publications and by viewing some collections. The researchers that did comparisons mainly used the well-known Three Rivers Petroglyph site. This is an excellent place to start these comparisons! Using over eighty trips to Three Rivers as well as comparison to photos and visits for almost four hundred other sites throughout the Jornada along with access to the entire Mimbres database (over 20,000 vessels) provides a more detailed look at the iconic similarities and hints at much more.
Mimbres ceramics from southwestern New Mexico to the imagery of Jornada Mogollon rock art. Most of these comparisons were done without the benefit of the entire Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database (MimPIDD) and depended on images of ceramics from publications and by viewing some collections. The researchers that did comparisons mainly used the well-known Three Rivers Petroglyph site. This is an excellent place to start these comparisons! Using over eighty trips to Three Rivers as well as comparison to photos and visits for almost four hundred other sites throughout the Jornada along with access to the entire Mimbres database (over 20,000 vessels) provides a more detailed look at the iconic similarities and hints at much more.Bio:
Margaret Berrier received a BA in Art from Indiana University. She has been fascinated by archaeology and nature and has studied the ancient cultures of Central America and the Southwest for over forty years. Native American rock art caught her interest when she participated in a field trip in 1986 to sites in Utah. Since then, she has continued to research, record, and photograph other rock art sites in Utah as well as Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. She also visited sites in Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Baja in Mexico. Her interest has grew to include rock art of the world, and she visited rock art sites in the Kimberley and Arnhemland in Northern Australia, the Paleolithic caves in Spain and Egypt, Algeria in the Sahara Desert as well as much farther north in Scandinavia. She has also published numerous papers and done presentations at the Society of American Archaeology as well as 12 Zoom presentations during the pandemic. She uses her artist skills to illustrate her talks, help other researchers illustrate their presentations and papers, and document imagery for petroglyph and pictograph projects for various agencies.
