Author : David S. Whitley
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780878423323
This unique full-color field guide is essential for anyone who seeks to understand why shamans in the Far West created rock art and what they sought to depict. Whitley is on the cutting edge of dating and interpreting the images as well as describing the
Author : Robert Fleming Heizer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
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Author : Donald F. Liponi
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781618501561
A photographic and professional archaeologic survey of the La Rumorosa rock art style. Nearly all of the half, full page and double page photographs have never been published previously. The text is contributed by regional archaeologists who add context to the images.
Author : Diana Lindsay
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
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Author : Harry W. Crosby
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Robert Fleming Heizer
Publisher :
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 1973
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : William D. Hyder
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Cave paintings
ISBN :
"The subject matter of the San marcos Pass paintings is familiar. The simple geometrics--paralell lines, zigzaga, circles, dots, and grids--form the basis of art from the beginnings of human history. Some say these elements arise from experiences with altered states of consciousness. Deer, fish, birds, insects, amphibians, and humans appear in abstract and naturalistic forms. Others defy neat explanation." Description from the Introduction page 1.
Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2007-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759113742
Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory undertaken in the past 20 years. An essential resource for any scholar of California prehistory and archaeology!
Author : Susan Searight
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN :
This study analyses almost 300 known prehistoric rock art sites dating from c.2500 BC set within their environmental context. Susan Searight discusses the themes and motifs represented, comprising anthropomorphs, human hands and feet, weapons, agricultural tools, chariots and geometric forms, and their distribution.
Author : Robert Fleming Heizer
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780758127419
