Rock art--prehistoric pictures--gives us lively and captivating images of animals and people painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces. It is all too easy to guess at the meanings the images carry. This pioneering set of essays instead explores how we can reliably learn from rock art as a material record of distant times by adapting the proven methods of archaeology to the special subject of rock art.
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Rock-art - prehistoric pictures - gives us lively and captivating images of animals and people painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces. It is all too easy to guess at the meanings the images carry. This pioneering set of sparkling essays instead explores how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times by adapting the proven methods of archaeology to the special subject of rock art.
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An excellent collage of research data on rock art,
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By taking a scientific approach, the text has succeeded in giving rock art research the kind of credibility and respectability that it needed for some time. It is well written and focuses on a broad spectrum of case studies from all over the world. A must read for both professional and popular audiences.
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As the millennium draws to a close, the world is undergoing unparalleled change, affecting virtually every living creature on Earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antlered anthropomorph, impaled deer, correspondence axis, weapon carvings, hiking function, beeswax figures, rock art research, internal marking, rock art studies, mythic women, iconic characteristics, motif association, landscape symbolism, parietal art, boat images, contact transition, hand stencils, informed methods, shield figures, war honours, phylogenetic model, supernatural potency, direct dating, megalithic art, domestic ungulates Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arnhem Land, Bronze Age, Great Basin, New York, New Zealand, South Africa, Cape Town, North America, Witwatersrand University Press, Northern Territory, Cambridge University Press, Late Neolithic, Australian National University, Current Anthropology, Glen Canyon, Pecos River Style, Middle Neolithic, Sydney Basin, Trondheim Fjord, American Anthropologist, Central Asia, Kakadu National Park, Upper Palaeolithic, Colorado River, Academic Press New!
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As the millennium draws to a close, the world is undergoing unparalleled change, affecting virtually every living creature on Earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antlered anthropomorph, impaled deer, correspondence axis, weapon carvings, hiking function, beeswax figures, rock art research, internal marking, rock art studies, mythic women, iconic characteristics, motif association, landscape symbolism, parietal art, boat images, contact transition, hand stencils, informed methods, shield figures, war honours, phylogenetic model, supernatural potency, direct dating, megalithic art, domestic ungulates Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arnhem Land, Bronze Age, Great Basin, New York, New Zealand, South Africa, Cape Town, North America, Witwatersrand University Press, Northern Territory, Cambridge University Press, Late Neolithic, Australian National University, Current Anthropology, Glen Canyon, Pecos River Style, Middle Neolithic, Sydney Basin, Trondheim Fjord, American Anthropologist, Central Asia, Kakadu National Park, Upper Palaeolithic, Colorado River, Academic Press New!
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- Chauvet Cave: The Art of Earliest Times by Jean Clottes on page 117, page 118, and page 120
- Images of the Ice Age by Paul G. Bahn on page 9, page 39, and page 127
- Papua New Guinea: The Struggle for Development (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia) by John Connell on page 9, and page 110
- Plains Indians (Small World) by Kate Petty on page 70, and page 72
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- Aesthetics and Rock Art by Thomas Heyd on 5 pages
- Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives (Social Archaeology) by Wendy Ashmore on page 54, and page 55
- The Lesser Gods of the Sahara: Social Change and Indigenous Rights (Cass Series--History and Society in the Islamic World) by Jeremy Keenan on page 223, and Back Matter
- New Perspectives on Prehistoric Art by Gunter Berghaus in Back Matter
- The Lesser Gods of the Sahara: Social Change and Contested Terrain Indigenous Rights (Cass Series: History and Society in the Islamic World) by Jeremy Keenan in Back Matter
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