Author : Ian Shaw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0470751967
This dictionary provides those studying or working in archaeology with a complete reference to the field.
Author : Antonio Beltrán Martínez
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 1982-07-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521245685
Studie over prehistorische rotsschilderingen in het Oosten van Spanje.
Author : Augustin F.C. Holl
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2004-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759115702
The Neolithic rock images of Iheren, Algeria are the starting point for Augustin Holl's careful analysis of the iconography of Saharan rock art. Created in the third millennium B.C., the Iheren murals are over 3 meters wide and contain multiple compositions that present an allegorical depiction of the lifeways of Tassilian pastoralists in the Sahara. Holl approaches his task as an archaeologist, examining the various strands of evidence—icons, ideas, motifs, colors, and sizes-and weaving them together into a story that offers a window on the pastoralist worldview through the semiotics of their art. His deconstruction and synthesis of this corpus of material should be of interest to African archaeologists, rock art specialists, art historians, and cultural anthropologists alike.
Author : Paul G. Bahn (archaeologist)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521192781
Prehistoric rock art is the markings - paintings, engravings, or pecked images - left on rocks or cave walls by ancient peoples. In this book, Paul G. Bahn provides a richly illustrated overview of prehistoric rock art and cave art from around the world. Summarizing the recent advances in our understanding of this extraordinary visual record, he discusses new discoveries, new approaches to recording and interpretation, and current problems in conservation. Bahn focuses in particular on current issues in the interpretation of rock art, notably the "shamanic" interpretation that has been influential in recent years and that he refutes. This book is based on the Rhind Lectures that the author delivered for the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 2006.
Author : George Nash
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2004-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521524247
A companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Cambridge 1998), this new collection edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash addresses the most important component around the rock-art panel - its landscape. The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art draws together the work of many well-known scholars from key regions of the world for rock-art and for rock-art research. It provides a unique, broad and varied insight into the arrangement, location, and structure of rock-art and its place within the landscapes of ancient worlds as ancient people experienced them. Packed with illustrations, as befits a book about images, The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art offers a visual as well as a literary key to the understanding of this most lovely and alluring of archaeological traces.
Author : Carole Charette
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 1789696909
Prof. Daniel Arsenault, a leading exponent of Canadian Shield rock art, sadly passed away in 2016. This book contains 14 thought-provoking chapters dealing with Daniel’s first love—the archaeology of artistic endeavour. It provides the reader with new ideas about the interpretation and dating of rock art, ethnography, heritage and material culture.
Author : María Mercedes Podestá
Publisher : Grupo Abierto Communicaciones
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789871121168
Author : Savino di Lernia
Publisher : All’Insegna del Giglio
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8892850911
The rock art sites of the Tadrart Acacus in southwestern Libya were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985, largely owing to the activities started in 1955 by Fabrizio Mori, founder of the Libyan-Italian Mission in the Tadrart Acacus and Messak. Since the beginning, the Department of Antiquities of Tripoli and Sebha, Libya, and Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, have worked in the region nearly without interruption until 2011. This book presents the archive of the rock art sites, identified and recorded by the Italian Mission and by independent scholars, as described and critically assessed by the authors within the framework of the ASArt-DATA project (the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme). The contributions introducing the catalogue contextualize the environmental, archaeological, and cultural aspects of the engravings and paintings. They include chapters addressing the historical, cultural, and diplomatic issues involved in the long-term bilateral scientific cooperation.
Author : Oscar Moro Abadía
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000339734
Ontologies of Rock Art is the first publication to explore a wide range of ontological approaches to rock art interpretation, constituting the basis for groundbreaking studies on Indigenous knowledges, relational metaphysics, and rock imageries. The book contributes to the growing body of research on the ontology of images by focusing on five main topics: ontology as a theoretical framework; the development of new concepts and methods for an ontological approach to rock art; the examination of the relationships between ontology, images, and Indigenous knowledges; the development of relational models for the analysis of rock images; and the impact of ontological approaches on different rock art traditions across the world. Generating new avenues of research in ontological theory, political ontology, and rock art research, this collection will be relevant to archaeologists, anthropologists, and philosophers. In the context of an increasing interest in Indigenous ontologies, the volume will also be of interest to scholars in Indigenous studies. Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780429321863/ontologies-rock-art-oscar-moro-abad%C3%ADa-martin-porr?context=ubx&refId=3766b051-4754-4339-925c-2a262a505074
Author : Rodney Moffett
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Reference
ISBN :
This bibliography includes scientific articles on the Drakensberg, Maloti and Adjacent Lowlands published between 1808 and 2019. Although focusing on material appearing in accredited journals, there is such a wealth of information in the form of unpublished, yet traceable, reports, documents, presentations and dissertations, these are also included. The bibliography has two parts – a complete list arranged alphabetically, and the same references arranged in 33 different disciplines. These range from Palaeobotany with 17 entries, to Rock Art with 502 entries.
