Over the past 25 years, major rock art research has been performed in the North American eastern woodlands - in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, and parts of Georgia and North Carolina.
Because of the enormity of the eastern landscape and the growing number of rock art sites, the editors of Transforming the Landscape decided to focus in on the topic of cultural landscapes and cosmology - that is, the graphic reflection of beliefs about the cosmos within rock art ima.