Lines on Stone : The Prehistoric Rock Art of India. Revised and Enlarged Edition including 2500 Illustrations from the Clayman Archive /
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Lines on Stone and the accompanying CD-Rom of the dayman Archive offer an encyclopaedic view of the pre- and protohistoric Rock Art of India. The 3,000 or so illustrations give a sweeping view of the aesthetic as well as thematic vastness of the earliest Indian art. We see people in their daily chores, women nursing babies, carrying baskets, catching rats, working grinders, emptying baskets, while men with their microlith tipped spears hunt animals, climb trees, shoot their arrows at birds or fish. But we also see many enigmatic sceneries, which we can not 'read' any more, but then we know that the people of long past must have had their own mythologies which we might not be able to disentangle any more. These rock pictures therefore are a treasure which has to be cherished and protected like the proverbial apple of the eye: it is our only possibility to look into our own past, a past of which we have little otherwise. Although rock pictures were noticed by antiquarians in the nineteenth century, the systematic study of these pictures started only after the discovery of Bhimbetka and the excavations which followed during the 1970s. Bhimbetka is by now a well known rock art site, a tourist site of the first order in Central India on which the prestigious UN world heritage status of cultural property of mankind was conferred. But it also should be remembered that many more such sites are threatened by the economic transformation of India.
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1 online resource (2492 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004753358
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) :
Powerful pictures : rock art research histories around the world /
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Focusing on stunning paintings and engravings from around the world, 16 papers interrogate the driving forces behind global rock art research. Many of the motifs featured were created by Indigenous hunter-gatherer groups; this book sheds new light on non-Western rituals and worldviews, many of which are threatened or on the point of extinction.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource : illustrations (colour) :
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9781803273891 (PDF 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) :
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) :
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) :
Rock art studies : news of the world.
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Like previous series entries, this volume covers rock art research and management all over the world over a 5-year period, in this case 2015-19. Contributions once again show the wide variety of approaches that have been taken in different parts of the world and reflect the expansion and diversification of perspectives and research questions.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations, maps :
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9781789699630 (PDF 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) :
Indigenous heritage and rock art : worldwide research in memory of Daniel Arsenault /
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Professor Daniel Arsenault, a leading exponent of Canadian Shield rock art, sadly passed away in 2016. This book contains 14 thought-provoking chapters dealing with Daniel's first love - the archaeology of artistic endeavour. It provides the reader with new ideas about the interpretation and dating of rock art, ethnography, heritage and material culture.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789696905 (PDF ebook) :
Anthropomorphic images in rock art paintings and rock carvings /
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In the realm of rock art, humanlike images appear widely through time and space from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, and for some continents to later, yet still prehistoric, times. The artworks discussed in 'Anthropomorphic Images in Rock Art Paintings and Rock Carvings' range from paintings, engravings or scratchings on cave walls and rock shelters, images pecked into rocky surfaces or upon standing stones, and major sacred sites (among them Gobekli Tepe, Avebury, Stonehenge, and the Palaeolithic Chauvet Cave) in which the possibility exists of recovery of the meanings intended by the artists and sculptors.
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1 online resource :
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9781789693584 (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) :
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) :
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) :
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) :
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
Carving interactions : rock art in the nomadic landscape of the Black Desert, north-eastern Jordan /
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The Safaitic rock art of the North Arabian basalt desert is one of the few surviving traces of the elusive herding societies that lived there in antiquity. This comprehensive study of over 4500 petroglyphs from the Jebel Qurma region of the Black Desert in North-Eastern Jordan is the first-ever systematic study of the Safaitic petroglyphs.
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"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789693126 (PDF ebook) :