Signifying place and space : world perspectives of rock art and landscape /
: "This book is the product of a number of conference sessions run between 1997 and 1999 ; the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference at Bournemouth and Birmingham and the IRAC (International Rock Art Congress) held in Vila Real, Portugal in 1998" -- page vii. : vii, 171 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 1841710989
Ritual landscapes and borders within rock art research : papers in honour of Professor Kalle Sognnes /
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Ritual landscapes and borders are recurring themes running through Professor Kalle Sognnes' long research career. This anthology contains 13 articles written by colleagues from his broad network in appreciation of his many contributions to the field of rock art research.
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1 online resource : illustrations (colour) :
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9781784911591 (PDF ebook) :
The enigmatic world of ancient graffiti : rock art in Chukotka : the Chaunskaya Region, Russia /
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This monograph is devoted to small forms of engraving on stone. It summarizes the archaeological material obtained during the course of excavations at the Rauchuvagytgyn I site (dated to 2500 years ago) in northern Chukotka. The book analyzes the content and semantics of the pictorial resources, and ethnic identification is made.
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Translated from the Russian. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784911898 (PDF ebook) :
Rock art of the Vindhyas : an archaeological survey : documentation and analysis of the rock art of Mirzapur District, Uttar Pradesh /
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How does rock art as an object fashioned by human hands then differ from tools? What utility does it have beyond its symbolic value? The Vindhyan corpus of rock paintings has provided us with a very valuable opportunity to be answering such questions.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (colour) :
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9781784912468 (ebook) :
Public images, private readings : multi-perspective approaches to the Post-Palaeolithic rock art : proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1-7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain).
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A significant number of Holocene societies throughout the world have resorted at one time or another to the making of paints or carvings on different places. The aim of the session A11e, held within the XVII World UISPP Congress, was to put together the experiences of specialists from different areas of the Iberian Peninsula and the World.
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Selected conference papers.
Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
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9781784912901 (ebook) :
Rock art studies : news of the world V /
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This is the fifth volume in the series. Like the previous volumes, it covers rock art research and management across the globe over a five-year period, in this case the years 2010 to 2014 inclusive.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (colour) :
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9781784913540 (ebook) :
Archival theory, chronology and interpretation of rock art in the Western Cape, South Africa /
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This work advocates the archival capacity of rock art and uses archival perspectives to analyse the chronology of paintings in order to formulate a framework for their historicised interpretations.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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9781784914479 (ebook) :
Myths about rock art /
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Rather than considering the myths supposedly depicted in the world's rock art, this work examines the myths archaeologists and others have created about the meanings and significance of rock art.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784914752 (ebook) :
Narratives and journeys in rock art : a reader /
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Why publish a reader? Today, it is relatively easy and convenient to switch on your computer and download an academic paper. However, as many scholars have experienced, historic references are difficult to access. Moreover, some are now lost and are merely references in later papers. This can be frustrating. This text provides a series of papers from all over the world that extend as far back as the 1970s when rock art research was in its infancy. The papers presented in the reader reflect the development in the various approaches that have influenced advancing scholarly research.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xiv, 686 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784915612 (ebook) :
Le massif de Lovo, sur les traces du royaume de Kongo.
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Unlike the Sahara or Southern Africa, the rock art of Central Africa is still largely unknown today. Crossing ethnological, historical, archaeological and mythological points of view, this book illustrates that rock art played an important part in Kongo culture.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784916350 (ebook) :
Aesthetics, applications, artistry and anarchy : essays in prehistoric and contemporary art : a festschrift in honour of John Kay Clegg, 11 January 1935 - 1 March 2015 /
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This volume, in honour of John Kay Clegg, consists of papers by rock art researchers from around the world on topics such as aesthetics, the application of statistical analyses, frontier conflict and layered symbolic meanings, the deliberate use of optical illusion, and the contemporary significance of ancient and street art.
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Festschrift for John Kay Clegg.
Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (viii, 170 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784919993 (ebook) :
Art of the ancestors : spatial and temporal patterning in the ceiling rock art of Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land, Australia /
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Focusing on the ceiling art at Nawarla Gabarnmang, one of the richest rock art sites in Arnhem Land (in Australia's Northern Territory), this work presents a new systematic approach to the archaeological recording and documentation of rock art developed to analyse the spatial and temporal structure of complex rock art panels.
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1 online resource (x, 902 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781789690712 (ebook) :
A painted ridge : rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa /
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The San (Bushmen) practice of rock painting is examined in this text. David Witelson explores a suite of spatially close San rock painting sites in the Maclear District of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province. As a suite, the sites are remarkable because, despite their proximity to each other, they share patterns of similarity and simultaneous difference. They are a microcosm that reflects, in a broad sense, a trend found at other painted sites in South Africa. The bygone and almost unrecorded practice of San rock art is considered relative to ethnographically well-documented and observed forms of San expressive culture. The approach in the book draws on concepts and terminology from the discipline of performance studies to characterise the San practice of image-making as well as to coordinate otherwise disparate ideas about that practice.
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1 online resource (x, 148 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789692457 (PDF ebook) :
Messages from the past : rock art of Al-Hajar Mountains /
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Angelo E. Fossati takes the reader on an in-depth journey into the various themes present in the rock art of Oman, offering theories on the chronology and interpretation, while exploring the landscape setting of the decorated. Highly illustrated throughout, beautiful photographs and scientific tracings of the rock art accompany the text.
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Published in association with the Sultanate of Oman, Ministry of Heritage and Culture. :
1 online resource (xxx, 304 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps. :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789692877 (PDF ebook) :