Back to Evelyn and Bob Back to Rupestrian CyberServices home page Evelyn Billo (formerly Newman) Rupestrian CyberServices founder and CEO 3644 N. Stone Crest Street Flagstaff, AZ 86004-6811 520-526-3625 ebillo@infomagic.net
Founded Rupestrian CyberServices in 1997 to provide technical services to rock art site managers and others. Services include rock art site recording, digital image enhancement, linking maps to images, scanning and archiving research materials, database creation, and production of multimedia projects for education or management.
Recent major contracts and grants include photographing and assessing rock art condition at
• Sears Point in Arizona in progress through 2010
• Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico in progress through 2009
• Devils River State Natural Area, Texas in progress through 2009
• Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site in Texas,
• Lava Beds National Monument in California, and
• Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona.
Additional projects
• Assessed wildfire impacts to rock art sites in Nevada and Wyoming for the BLM.
• Innovative panoramic photography of Desert View Watchtower murals in Grand Canyon National Park as part of the Hopi Iconography Project with the Museum of Northern Arizona,
• Recorded rock art sites including creating maps and GIS databases with linked images of rock art at
• Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado
• Coconino National Forest, Arizona
• Hueco Tanks State Historic Site for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
• Wind River rock art for the DuBois, Wyoming museum
• Produced interactive educational CDs for
• Deer Valley Rock Art Center, Phoenix, Arizona
• Kaibab National Forest Keyhole Sink rock art site, Arizona
• Provided image enhancement assistance to:
• Jean Clottes, director of the Chauvet Cave research project in France
• Matthias Strecker, SIARB at sites in Bolivia
• Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona
Winner, with Robert Mark, of the American Rock Art Research Association's
• Oliver Award for Excellence in Rock Art Photography, 2002
• Conservation and Preservation Award, 1999.
• Research Associate in Anthropology, Museum of Northern Arizona, 2007 to present
• Member of team that recorded rock art at Picture Canyon, AZ in support of it’s nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Site placed on National Register, 2008
• Guest Curator (with others) of Stories on Stone Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau Exhibit at Museum of Northern Arizona from June 2005 through May 2006.
• Practitioner Associate for Northern Arizona University Anthropology Department (2002-present).
• Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department Permit to study rock art in the Chinle Wash watershed and provide photographic documentation.
• Rock art recorder with BLM in Paria Wilderness, (2000).
• Team leader with the Arizona Archaeological Society Field Schools at Anderson Pass (1999 & 1998), Dead Man Wash (1997), and Red Tank Draw (1996).
• Rock Art Foundation field school and site survey work, Pecos River area, Texas, 1997
• Multimedia CD completed in 1995 for the Archaeological Conservancy to assist them in mapping and managing their Rocky Hill rock art site in Tulare County, California.
• Helped record rock art of Chitactac-Adams Cultural Historic Park, Santa Clara County, California. Member Citizens Advisory Committee for Chitactac Adams from 1990-1995, working closely with Ohlone Tribal members and park planners.
• Member Citizens Advisory Committee for Henry W. Coe State Park from 1985-1995, helping with the archaeological resource inventory at the second largest state park in California.
Twenty-nine years experience recording rock art worldwide on 35-mm slide film and digitally. Concern with image-degradation in private research materials led to developments of image enhancement techniques that are now standards in the field. Concern for site conservation led to multimedia services that combine GPS, GIS, digital images, 360-degree panoramas, QuickTime Virtual Reality, and CD/DVD technology.
Archive activities
Scan research slide and photograph collections of individual rock art researchers, create image databases, and archive images and data to CDROM or DVDs as appropriate.
Rock art site protection and activism
• Current President and former Vice President & Board Member: American Rock Art Research Association 2003-present. Member ARARA Conservation and Preservation Committee for 24 years.
• Vice President: Arizona Archaeological Society, Northern Arizona Chapter 2002-present; Board member 1997-2002.
• Vice president: Santa Clara County Archaeological Society, 1993.
• Certified Rock Art Recorder: Arizona Archaeological Society.
• Member: SAA, URARA, ESRARA, AURA, SARARA, SIARB, INORA.
• Founding member: BARARA, RAF, and NRAF.
• Listed in Who's Who in Rock Art, 1996 edition.
Publications and Presentations
Rock art publication bibliography with Robert Mark is on our website. www.rupestrian.com
Employed
Twenty-six years with the US Geological Survey as a Digital Mapping Consultant and Computer Specialist.
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics: New Mexico State University, 1965.
Selected Publications
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