Join us as we discuss historic inscriptions, ghost signs, rock art, DStretch, petroglyphs and pictographs. During the 19th and 20th centuries, emigrants on the Northern Plains engaged in a communication behavior that left messages carved, incised, and painted onto the physical landscape. Often mingling with indigenous pictographs and petroglyphs, the emigrants' messages are called "historic inscriptions" and exist in the form of names, dates, text, and ideographs. Historic inscriptions relay information on identity and cultural value and are a new way of interpreting how people reacted to the landscape of the 18th, 19th, and 20th century west. Tim Urbaniak is a Professor Emeritus at Montana State University (MSU-Billings).  Join us for this fascinating conversation!  

 

To Learn More:

Historic Inscriptions https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/4410/

3D Scanning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e9ELzAWIII

Carbon County Historical Society presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7RRoNYb7J8