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PEOPLE IN ROCK ART - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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LEIGH MARYMOR

Leigh Marymor is a Past President of the American Rock Art Research Association where he has been a member for 40 years and also served several terms during that time as Chairperson of the ARARA's Conservation Committee. Leigh has been awarded the following recognitions by the American Rock Art Research Association: Castleton Award for excellence in research (2002); Conservation and Preservation Award for the activities of the Bay Area Rock Art Research Association on behalf of cultural resource heritage protection (2008); and the Wellmann Award for lifetime achievement in the fields of rock art studies, documentation, education, conservation and outreach (2021). He co-founded the Bay Area Rock Art Research Association along with Dr. Paul Freeman in 1983, and continues in a leadership role in that organization today.

Leigh Marymor is the Compiler of Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic Database. The RASBdb project is a searchable bibliographic database of the World's rock art literature and contains more than 50,600 citations as of Summer 2023. The RASBdb was hosted as a joint project between the Bancroft Library (University of California - Berkeley) and the Bay Area Rock Art Research Association (BARARA) from 2003 - 2016.  In fall of 2016, BARARA affiliated with the Museum of Northern Arizona to continue the free and open access to the  RASBdb project. The Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database search engine at the Museum of Northern Arizona is located at:

https://musnaz.org/search_rock_art_studies_db/

Leigh Marymor is a Research Affiliate at the Museum of Northern Arizona. He holds a B.S. degree in Community Education, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, he is a trained textile artist, and retired in 2021 as President of The Lunt Marymor Company, a construction firm located in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in plumbing, radiant heating, and fire sprinkler design and installations.

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