Lithic studies : Anatolia and beyond /
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This volume shows networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (vi, 278 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699272 (PDF ebook) :
Geological map of the basement rocks in the Eastern Desert of Egypt /
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An additional title in upper margin : A new geological map for the basement rocks in the eastern and south western deserts of Egypt.
Includes geological cross sections and source diagram.
Inset map: Sources of geological compilation. :
1 map on 1 sheet ; 79.5 x 53.5 cm.
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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Includes bibliographical references. :
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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Includes bibliographical references. :
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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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699630 (PDF ebook) :
From mine to user : production and procurement systems of Siliceous rocks in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, P...
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This title presents papers from parts 1 and 2 of session XXXIII of the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018). The first part, 'Siliceous rocks: procurement and distribution systems', looks at production systems and the diffusion of mining products, while the second, 'Flint mines and chipping floors', focuses on knapping activities.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (viii, 134 pages). : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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9781789697124 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
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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Includes bibliographical references. :
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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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789693584 (ebook) :