Contents: Introduction (Francoise Fauconnier and Serge Lemaitre); 1) Rock art sites as spiritual places ? Canadian Shield rock art as part of the Algonquian sacred landscape (Daniel Arsenault); 2) Thunderbirds and Horned Snakes: Cosmogony at Canadian Rock Art Sites (Serge Lemaitre); 3) Cueva de la Serpiente: Interpretive Analysis of an Archaic Great Mural Rock Art Panel, Mulege, Baja California Sur, Mexico (Roberto Martinez, Larissa Mendoza and Ramon Vinas); 4) El Salto del Perro, Durango, Mexico: La construccion de un paisaje sagrado en los confines de Mesoamerica (Fernando Berrojalbiz y Marie-Areti Hers); 5)"