Author: Kingsley Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Analysis of rock art on Fortescue River, Depunch Island and near Port Hedland; informants interpretations of art and associated myths; informants from Garadjari, Nyangamada, Nyamil, Indjiburndi, Ngarluma, Gariyara.
Myth, Ritual and Rock Art
Author: Kingsley Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Analysis of rock art on Fortescue River, Depunch Island and near Port Hedland; informants interpretations of art and associated myths; informants from Garadjari, Nyangamada, Nyamil, Indjiburndi, Ngarluma, Gariyara.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Analysis of rock art on Fortescue River, Depunch Island and near Port Hedland; informants interpretations of art and associated myths; informants from Garadjari, Nyangamada, Nyamil, Indjiburndi, Ngarluma, Gariyara.
Rock Art in Africa
Author: Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN:
Category : Art, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN:
Category : Art, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
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.
Myths about Rock Art
Author: Robert G. Bednarik
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784914754
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784914754
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
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.
Rock Art in the Americas
Author: Françoise Fauconnier
Publisher: BAR International Series
ISBN: 9781407310527
Category : Petroglyphs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book contains both Spanish and English papers.
Publisher: BAR International Series
ISBN: 9781407310527
Category : Petroglyphs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book contains both Spanish and English papers.
Rock Art and Sacred Landscapes
Author: Donna L. Gillette
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461484065
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Social and behavioral scientists study religion or spirituality in various ways and have defined and approached the subject from different perspectives. In cultural anthropology and archaeology the understanding of what constitutes religion involves beliefs, oral traditions, practices and rituals, as well as the related material culture including artifacts, landscapes, structural features and visual representations like rock art. Researchers work to understand religious thoughts and actions that prompted their creation distinct from those created for economic, political, or social purposes. Rock art landscapes convey knowledge about sacred and spiritual ecology from generation to generation. Contributors to this global view detail how rock art can be employed to address issues regarding past dynamic interplays of religions and spiritual elements. Studies from a number of different cultural areas and time periods explore how rock art engages the emotions, materializes thoughts and actions and reflects religious organization as it intersects with sociopolitical cultural systems.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461484065
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Social and behavioral scientists study religion or spirituality in various ways and have defined and approached the subject from different perspectives. In cultural anthropology and archaeology the understanding of what constitutes religion involves beliefs, oral traditions, practices and rituals, as well as the related material culture including artifacts, landscapes, structural features and visual representations like rock art. Researchers work to understand religious thoughts and actions that prompted their creation distinct from those created for economic, political, or social purposes. Rock art landscapes convey knowledge about sacred and spiritual ecology from generation to generation. Contributors to this global view detail how rock art can be employed to address issues regarding past dynamic interplays of religions and spiritual elements. Studies from a number of different cultural areas and time periods explore how rock art engages the emotions, materializes thoughts and actions and reflects religious organization as it intersects with sociopolitical cultural systems.
Australian Rock Art
Author: Robert Layton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521346665
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A survey of Australian rock art, presenting detailed case studies revealing the significance of both recent and ancient art for Australia's living indigenous communities.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521346665
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A survey of Australian rock art, presenting detailed case studies revealing the significance of both recent and ancient art for Australia's living indigenous communities.
A Companion to Rock Art
Author: Jo McDonald
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118253922
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This unique guide provides an artistic and archaeological journey deep into human history, exploring the petroglyphic and pictographic forms of rock art produced by the earliest humans to contemporary peoples around the world. Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars Includes new discoveries and research, illustrated with over 160 images (including 30 color plates) from major rock art sites around the world Examines key work of noted authorities (e.g. Lewis-Williams, Conkey, Whitley and Clottes), and outlines new directions for rock art research Is broadly international in scope, identifying rock art from North and South America, Australia, the Pacific, Africa, India, Siberia and Europe Represents new approaches in the archaeological study of rock art, exploring issues that include gender, shamanism, landscape, identity, indigeneity, heritage and tourism, as well as technological and methodological advances in rock art analyses
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118253922
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This unique guide provides an artistic and archaeological journey deep into human history, exploring the petroglyphic and pictographic forms of rock art produced by the earliest humans to contemporary peoples around the world. Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars Includes new discoveries and research, illustrated with over 160 images (including 30 color plates) from major rock art sites around the world Examines key work of noted authorities (e.g. Lewis-Williams, Conkey, Whitley and Clottes), and outlines new directions for rock art research Is broadly international in scope, identifying rock art from North and South America, Australia, the Pacific, Africa, India, Siberia and Europe Represents new approaches in the archaeological study of rock art, exploring issues that include gender, shamanism, landscape, identity, indigeneity, heritage and tourism, as well as technological and methodological advances in rock art analyses
Religion on the Rocks
Author: Aaron Michael Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781607813644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize We are nearly all intrigued by the petroglyphs and pictographs of the American Southwest, and we commonly ask what they "mean." Religion on the Rocks redirects our attention to the equally important matter of what compelled ancient peoples to craft rock art in the first place. To examine this question, Aaron Wright presents a case study from Arizona's South Mountains, an area once flanked by several densely populated Hohokam villages. Synthesizing results from recent archaeological surveys, he explores how the mountains' petroglyphs were woven into the broader cultural landscape and argues that the petroglyphs are relics of a bygone ritual system in which people vied for prestige and power by controlling religious knowledge. The features and strategic placement of the rock art suggest this dimension of Hohokam ritual was participatory and prominent in village life. Around AD 1100, however, petroglyph creation and other ritual practices began to wane, denoting a broad transformation of the Hohokam social world. Wright's examination of the South Mountains petroglyphs offers a novel narrative of how Hohokam villagers negotiated a concentration of politico-religious authority around platform mounds. Readers will come away with a better understanding of the Hohokam legacy and a greater appreciation for rock art's value to anthropology.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781607813644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize We are nearly all intrigued by the petroglyphs and pictographs of the American Southwest, and we commonly ask what they "mean." Religion on the Rocks redirects our attention to the equally important matter of what compelled ancient peoples to craft rock art in the first place. To examine this question, Aaron Wright presents a case study from Arizona's South Mountains, an area once flanked by several densely populated Hohokam villages. Synthesizing results from recent archaeological surveys, he explores how the mountains' petroglyphs were woven into the broader cultural landscape and argues that the petroglyphs are relics of a bygone ritual system in which people vied for prestige and power by controlling religious knowledge. The features and strategic placement of the rock art suggest this dimension of Hohokam ritual was participatory and prominent in village life. Around AD 1100, however, petroglyph creation and other ritual practices began to wane, denoting a broad transformation of the Hohokam social world. Wright's examination of the South Mountains petroglyphs offers a novel narrative of how Hohokam villagers negotiated a concentration of politico-religious authority around platform mounds. Readers will come away with a better understanding of the Hohokam legacy and a greater appreciation for rock art's value to anthropology.
Prehistoric Rock Art
Author: Paul G. Bahn (archaeologist)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521192781
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521192781
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
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.
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art
Author: Bruno David
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
ISBN: 0190607351
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1185
Book Description
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. For more information, please read the site FAQs.
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
ISBN: 0190607351
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1185
Book Description
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. For more information, please read the site FAQs.