Faculty Profiles

Steelman, K. L., Boyd, C. E., Radillo Rolon, D. P., & Keim, D. W. (2025). Radiocarbon Dating & Stratigraphic Analyses of the Rock Art Mural at Eagle Cave, Texas. In K. Hedges & A. Gilreath (Eds.), American Indian Rock Art (Vol. 51, pp. 117–127). Orem, UT: American Rock Art Research Association.

Steelman, K. L., Boyd, C. E., & Dering, J. P. (n.d.). Mapping the Chronology of an Ancient Cosmovision: 4000 years of continuity in Pecos River style mural painting and symbolism. Science Advances.

Boyd, C. E. (n.d.). El mural de White Shaman: El perdurable mito de la creación en el arte rupestre de los cañones del Bajo Pecos. (F. Marcos Marin & N. Membrez, Trans.). Valencia, Spain: Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca and Ultreia at Universidad Católica de Valencia.

Boyd, C. E. (2024). Color Engenders Life: Pigment and Process in Prehistoric Rock Art. In C. Fowler & I. Weinryb (Eds.), Art/Work (pp. 93–108). Princeton University Press.

Castaneda, A. M., Boyd, C. E., & Willis, M. D. (2024). Recording the Visual Record: Current Best Practices and Methods for Rock Art Documentation. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, 95, 127–147.

Boyd, C. E. (2024). Introduction: Through the Eyes of an Artist. In M. McDermott (Ed.), Mary Virginia Carson: Pioneer Artist Capturing Rock Art with Watercolors (p. 1372 words).

Boyd, C. E., Dering, J. P., Steelman, K. L., & Radillo-Rolon, D. P. (n.d.). El Proyecto Fogón Aplicación de Arqueología Científica, Análisis Formal y Saber Indígena en la Investigación del Arte Ruprestre. In Actas del Congresso VII El arte de las sociedades prehistóricas (p. 10,212 words).

Lindsay, A. K., Murphy, T. J., Steelman, K. L., Roberts, V. L., Castaneda, A. M., Koenig, C. W., … Boyd, C. E. (2024). The Skiles Family and Rock Art Research in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands. Journal of Texas Archeology and History, 6, 349–370.

Castaneda, A. M., Koenig, C. W., Roberts, V. L., Roberts, J. L., Lindsay, A. K., Boyd, C. E., … Steelman, K. L. (2024). Looking Inward, Outward, and Forward: The Rock Art of Eagle Nest Canyon in a Regional Context. Journal of Texas Archeology and History, 6, 371–390.

Boyd, C. E. (2024). The Hearthstone Project: Processing and Organizing the Ethnographic Data. Retrieved from https://shumla.org/mexicoexperience4/

Boyd, C. E. (2024). The Hearthstone Project: NEH Interviews with Huichol Elders. Retrieved from https://shumla.org/mexicoexperience4/

Boyd, C. E., Dering, J. P., & Steelman, K. L. (2023). The Hearthstone Project: Applying Archaeological Science, Formal Art Analysis, and Indigenous Knowledge to Rock Art Research. In A. Gilreath, K. Hedges, & A. McConnell (Eds.), American Indian Rock Art (Vol. 49, pp. 135–150). Orem, Utah: American Rock Art Research Association.

Dering, J. P., & Boyd, C. E. (2023). The Hearthstone Project: Ethnographic Fieldwork in San Andres Cohamita, Mexico: Part 1. Retrieved from https://shumla.org/mexicoexperience1/

Boyd, C. E. (2023). The Hearthstone Project: Ethnographic Fieldwork in San Andres Cohamiata, Mexico: Part 2. Retrieved from https://shumla.org/mexicoexperience2/

Boyd, C. E. (2023). The Hearthstone Project: Ethnographic Fieldwork in San Andres Cohamiata, Mexico: Part 3. Retrieved from https://shumla.org/mexicoexperience3/

Dering, J. P., & Boyd, C. E. (2022). The Hearthstone Project: In the Lab - Determining Paint Stratigraphy. Retrieved from https://shumla.org/determiningpaintstratigraphy/

Dering, J. P., & Boyd, C. E. (2022). The Hearthstone Project: Documenting Fate Bell Shelter. Retrieved from https://shumla.org/fatebell/

Dering, J. P., & Boyd, C. E. (2022). The Hearthstone Project: Fieldwork in Painted Canyon. Retrieved from https://shumla.org/paintedcanyon/

Dering, J. P., & Boyd, C. E. (2022). The Hearthstone Project: In the Field at Halo Shelter. Retrieved from https://shumla.org/inthefieldathaloshelter/

Boyd, C. E., & Busby, A. (2021). Speech-Breath: Mapping the Multisensory Experience in Pecos River Style Pictography. Latin American Antiquity, 33(1), 20–40. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2021.47

Boyd, C. E. (2021). Images-in-the-Making: Process and Vivification in Pecos River Style Rock Art. In O. Moro-Abadia & M. Porr (Eds.), Ontologies of Rock Art: Images, Relational Approaches and Indigenous Knowledge (pp. 245–263). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429321863-10

Steelman, K. L., DeYoung, J., Frederick, C. D., Koenig, C. W., & Boyd, C. E. (2021). Geochemical Analyses at Eagle Cave, TX: Radiocarbon Dating Oxalate Accretions Associated with Rock Paintings. In D. A. Kaiser, M. Greer, & J. D. Keyser (Eds.), American Indian Rock Art (Vol. 47, pp. 227–240). Orem, Utah, USA: The American Rock Art Research Association.

Dering, J. P., & Boyd, C. E. (2021). The Hearthstone Project: Our Research Plans. Retrieved from https://shumla.org/ourresearchplans/

Dering, J. P., & Boyd, C. E. (2021). Introducing the Hearthstone Project. Retrieved from https://shumla.org/introducingthehearthstoneproject/

Steelman, K. L., Boyd, C. E., & Bates, L. N. (2021). Implications for Rock Art Dating from the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, Tx: A Review. Quaternary Geochronology, 63. https://doi.org/101167

Steelman, K. L., Boyd, C. E., & Allen, T. (2021). Two Independent Methods for Dating Rock Art: Age Determination of Paint and Oxalate Layers at Eagle Cave, TX. Journal of Archaeological Science, 126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105315

Steelman, K. L., Roberts, V. L., & Boyd, C. E. (2020). Discovering Hidden Layers with X-Ray Vision: New Applications of pXRF to Rock Art Studies. In M. V. Orna & S. C. Rasmussen (Eds.), Archaeological Chemistry: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Past (pp. 428–464). Washington D.C., USA: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Boyd, C. E. (2019). Lower Pecos Canyonlands Rock Art. In Prehistory of Texas. Austin, Texas, USA: Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/prehistory

Boyd, C. E. (2019). Preserving North America’s Oldest Known “Books”: The Shumla Archaeological Research and Education Center. Conservation Perspectives, The GCI Newsletter, 34, 13–15.

Castaneda, A. M., Koenig, C. W., Roberts, V. L., Roberts, J. L., Boyd, C. E., & Steelman, K. L. (2019). Portable X-Ray Fluoresence Analysis of Red Linear Style Figures at 41VV1000. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, 90, 19–34.

Koenig, C. W., Castaneda, A. M., Roberts, V. L., Roberts, J. L., Boyd, C. E., & Steelman, K. L. (2019). Around the Lower Pecos in 1,095 Days: The Alexandria Project. In K. Hedges & A. McConnell (Eds.), American Indian Rock Art (Vol. 45, pp. 147–160). San Jose, CA, USA: The American Rock Art Research Association.

Boyd, C. E. (2017). The White Shaman Mural and the Dawn of Time. International Newsletter on Rock Art, 78, 20–30.

Conkey, M. W., & Boyd, C. E. (2017). Amérique de Nord. In C. Fritz, M. Barbaza, G. Pincon, & G. Tosello (Eds.), L’art de la Préhistoire (pp. 239–273). Paris, France: Citadelles & Mazenod.

Boyd, C. E. (2017). Rock Art Documentation and Preservation. In Futuro sostenible de la vida en el desierto (pp. 103–111). Ciudad de Mexico, D.F., Mexico: UNESCO.

Boyd, C. E. (2016). The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos. Austin, Texas, USA: University of Texas Press. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/310304

Bates, L., Castañeda, A. M., Boyd, C. E., & Steelman, K. (2015). A Black Deer at Black Cave: New Pictograph Radiocarbon Date for the Lower Pecos, Texas. Journal of Texas Archeology and History, 2, 45–57.

Boyd, C. E., Castañeda, A., & Koenig, C. (2015). Response to Comments by Harrison. American Antiquity, 80, 204–205. https://doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.79.4.204

Boyd, C. E. (2014). Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands. International Newsletter on Rock Art, 69, 1–13.

Boyd, C. E., Rowe, M., & Steelman, K. (2014). Revisiting the Stylistic Classification of a Charcoal Pictograph in the Lower Pecos. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, 85, 235–241.

Koenig, C. W., Castañeda, A. M., Boyd, C. E., Rowe, M. W., & Steelman, K. L. (2014). Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Pictographs: A Case Study from the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, Texas. Archaeometry, 56, 168–186. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12060

Boyd, C. E. (2014, March 1). Drawing from the Past. Popular Archaeology, 20. Retrieved from https://popular-archaeology.com/article/drawing-from-the-past/

Boyd, C. E. (2013). Drawing from the Past: Rock Art of the Lower Pecos. In H. Shafer (Ed.), Painters in Prehistory: Archaeology and Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonland (pp. 171–221). San Antonio, TX, USA: Trinity University Press.

Boyd, C. E., & Cox, K. (2013). La peinture rupestre du chaman blanc: Un récit cosmogonique au Texas. Dossiers d’Archéologie: Arts Rupestres Des Récits Millénaires, 358, 72–75.

Boyd, C. E., & Freeman, A. (2013). Le Centre Archéologique de Recherche et D’éducation SHUMLA. Dossiers d’Archéologie: Arts Rupestres Des Récits Millénaires, 358, 76–77.

Boyd, C. E., & Dering, J. P. (2013). Rediscovering Ingredients in Paintings of the Pecos River Style. In H. Shafer (Ed.), Painters in Prehistory: Archaeology and Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands (pp. 180–181). San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press.

Boyd, C. E., Castaneda, A. M., & Koenig, C. W. (2013). A Reassessment of Red Linear Pictographs in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas. American Antiquity, 78, 456–482. https://doi.org/10.7183

Boyd, C. E. (2012). Pictographs, Peyote, and Patterns in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas. In J. McDonald & P. Veth (Eds.), Companion to Rock Art (pp. 34–50). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1002

Boyd, C. E., Marcos-Marin, F., Goodmaster, C., Johnson, A., Castaneda, A., & Benjamin, D. (2012). Digital Documentation and the Archaeology of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands. Virtual Archaeology Review, 3, 98–103. https://doi.org/10.4995

Johnson, A., Boyd, C. E., & Castañeda, A. (2011). Lower Pecos Rock Art Recording and Preservation Project. HCA Articles - Online, 1–7.

Boyd, C. E. (2010). El Arte Rupestre de Tejas: Análisis Contextual de Motivos Recurrentes en el Área de la Desembocadura del Río Pecos. Revista Iberoamericana de Lingüística, 5, 5–42.

Boyd, C. E. (2008). Shamanic Journeys into the Otherworld of the Archaic Chichimec. In G. Rakita & J. Buikstra (Eds.), An Archaeological Perspective on Ritual, Religion, and Ideology from American Antiquity and Latin American Antiquity (pp. 161–173). The SAA Press.

Boyd, C. E. (2003). Rock Art of the Lower Pecos. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. Retrieved from https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781603449854/rock-art-of-the-lower-pecos/

Boyd, C. E. (1998). Pictographic Evidence of Peyotism in the Lower Pecos, Texas Archaic. In C. Chippindale & P. S. C. Taçon (Eds.), The Archaeology of Rock Art (pp. 229–244). Cambridge University Press, Oxford.

Boyd, C. E., & Dering, J. P. (1996). Medicinal and Hallucinogenic Plants Identified in the Sediments and the Pictographs of the Lower Pecos Texas Archaic. Antiquity, 70, 256–275. https://doi.org/10.1017

Boyd, C. E. (1996). Shamanic Journeys into the Otherworld of the Archaic Chichimec. Latin American Antiquity, 7, 152–164. https://doi.org/10.2307