Author : Robert G. Bednarik
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784914754
Rather than considering the myths supposedly depicted in the world’s rock art, this book examines the myths archaeologists and others have created about the meanings and significance of rock art.
Author : Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN :
The only book of its kind to examine cave art throughout Africa. The paintings and engravings discovered in African caves are amazing works of art that hold clues to understanding the history of humankind.
Author : Robert G. Bednarik
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2016
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781784914745
Rather than considering the myths supposedly depicted in the world's rock art, this book examines the myths archaeologists and others have created about the meanings and significance of rock art. This vast body of opinions dominates our concepts of the principal surviving cultural manifestations of early worldviews. Here these constructs are subjected to detailed analysis and are found to consist largely of misinterpretations. From the misidentification of natural rock markings as rock art to mistaken interpretations, from sensationalist claims to pareidolic elucidations of iconographies, the book presents numerous examples of myths researchers have created about pre-Historic 'art'. The claims about a connection between rock art and the neuropathologies of its producers are assessed, and the neuroscience of rock art interpretation is reviewed. The book presents a comprehensive catalogue of falsities claimed about palaeoart, and it endeavours to explain how these arose, and how they can be guarded against by recourse to basic principles of science. It therefore represents a key resource in the scientific study of rock art.
Author : Polly Schaafsma
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN :
Over many centuries, the prehistoric Fremont and Anasazi peoples of present-day Utah left an artistic record in which distinctive styles are readily identifiable. From the Uinta Mountains through the central canyonlands to the Virgin River, Utah's abundant prehistoric rock art offers glimpses of a lost world. The Rock Art of Utah is a rich sample of the many varieties of rock art found in the state. Through nearly two hundred high-quality photographs and drawings from the Donald Scott Collection, all made during the 1920s and 1930s, rock art expert Polly Schaafsma provides a fascinating, comprehensive tour of this unique legacy. From the Uinta Mountains through the central canyonlands to the Virgin River, Utah's abundant prehistoric rock art offers glimpses of a lost world. Over many centuries, the Fremont and Anasazi peoples left an artistic record in which distinctive styles are readily identifiable. The Rock Art of Utah is a guide to the many varieties of rock art found in the state. Through dozens of high-quality photographs and drawings from the Donald Scott Collection, all made during the 1920s and 30s, author Polly Schaafsma provides a fascinating, comprehensive tour of this unique legacy. Now in an updated edition, it will engage anyone with an interest in the ancient peoples of the Colorado Plateau.
Author : Carolyn E. Boyd
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1477310304
Folded plate (1 leaf, 39 x 61 cm, folded to 19 x 16 cm) in pocket.
Author : J.D. Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0821444581
San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just as many still awaiting discovery. Taking as his starting point the magnificent Linton panel in the Iziko-South African Museum in Cape Town, J. D. Lewis-Williams examines the artistic and cultural significance of rock art and how this art sheds light on how San image-makers conceived their world. It also details the European encounter with rock art as well as the contentious European interaction with the artists’ descendants, the contemporary San people.
Author : Polly Schaafsma
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826309136
The comprehensive book on Indian petroglyphs in the Southwest.
Author : Yvette La Pierre
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 9781565660649
An introduction to native American art through petroglyphs and pictographs.
Author : Linea Sundstrom
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806135960
Provides a look at the history of the Black Hills country over the last ten thousand years through rock art, which illustrates the rich oral traditions, religious beliefs, and sacred places of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Mandan, and Hidatsa Indians who once lived there. Original
Author : Carol Patterson-Rudolph
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Indian mythology
ISBN : 9780941270984
Weaves together the stories of tiny elusive Spider Woman as she is mythologized by the Keresan Pueblo, Hopi and Navajo people. The myths in On the Trail of Spider Woman are those that were left in the petroglyphs and pictographs of the San Juan Basin, southeastern Utah, and northwestern New Mexico.
