Paul G. Bahn: Holding onto Smoke? Wishful Thinking vs Common Sense in Rock Art Interpretation Jean-Loïc Le Quellec: Can One ‘Read’ Rock Art? An Egyptian Example Robert Bagley: Interpreting Prehistoric Designs J. S. Cooper: Incongruent Corpora: Writing and Art in Ancient Iraq John Baines: On Functions of Writing in Ancient Egyptian Pictorial Representation Stephen Houston and Karl Taube: Meaning in Early Maya Imagery Paul Taylor: Moche Libation Bottles Jerome Feldman: Hawaiian Petroglyphs as Narratives Ivan Gaskell: Some Cherokee and Chitimacha Baskets: Problems of Interpretation