Mountains figure prominently in Mesoamerican cosmogeny, and a deep history of pilgrimage and worship surrounds many, though few have been systematically investigated using modern archaeological methods. Here, the authors present results from the lidar mapping and surface survey of a plateau at the summit of Cerro Patlachique, located at the southern limit of the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico. While ceramic typology establishes Cerro Patlachique as a site of pilgrimage before, during and after the occupation of Teotihuacan, the documentation of 34 carved monuments substantially expands the existing corpus and identifies the summit as a place of convocation with water deities.

A petroglyph showing a human face found in East Timor is dated to the late Pleistocene. It recalls ancient Australian forms and raises the possibility of connecting early cave art with the better known painted figures of Lapita/Austronesian art ten millennia later. This new discovery at a known cave shows what precious evidence still lies in store even in well-trodden places.

Various methods have been employed in the attempt to date rock-art. Here Robert Bednarik offers a critique of the cosmogenic radiation nuclides method, and its application to the Côa petroglyphs.