After thirteen years of collaboration the project found a new home and collaborator at the Anthropology Department at the Museum of Northern Arizona.
The RAS database first launched online as a joint project of the Bay Area Rock Art Research Association and University of California’s Bancroft Library. Over 37,000 citations are currently contained in the database.
The data compilation has been undertaken by Leigh Marymor with the year 2018 marking the 25th year of continuous revision and expansion of the data. An ever increasing number of citations within the database include web links to online versions of the reference cited and many citations include full author’s abstracts. The results of a data search can further be sorted by any of the data fields including: authors’ names date title and so forth. Geared to the broadest interests of rock art researchers students cultural resource managers and the general public the RAS database makes rock art literature accessible through a simple search interface that facilitates inquiries into multiple data fields including authors’ names title and publication place-name keyword subject keyword ISBN/ISSN number and abstract. The photographic archive constitutes a particularly valuable record of life in Ireland in the twentieth century.The Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database is an open access online resource that fulfills the need for a searchable portal into the world’s rock art literature. An extremely significant photographic archive (including many rare images of key figures and events in the Irish Revolution) is also listed in the catalogue. A very large assemblage of ephemera in the form of photoengraving plates and stereotype printing blocks is also extant. The collection also includes volumes containing copies of the editors’ correspondence along with financial records dating from the 1950s until the closure of the publication in 1977. Many renowned artists, writers and public figures contributed to the periodical. Many of the records in the collection are literary drafts submitted to the editors with a view to publication. Francis and the wolf was designed by Seán O’Sullivan RHA (1906-1964). The distinctive cover illustration of St. It was a journal unique in Irish publishing containing many literary, historical, topographical, photographic, biographical, and artistic articles. From its inception, the ‘Annual’ attracted a very high quality of contributing authors. Published from 1930 to 1977, ‘The Capuchin Annual’ was one of the most widely read Irish literary publications of the twentieth century. A collection of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and other records relating to ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office.
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