The Archaeology of Rock-art /
Chippindale, christopher
The Archaeology of Rock-art / Rock-art edited by Christopher Chippindale and Paul S.C. Taçon. - Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1998. - xviii, 373 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. An archaeology of rock-art through informed methods and informal methods/Paul Tacon and Christopher Chippindale; 2. Finding rain in the desert: landscape, gender and far western North American rock-art / David S. Whitley 3. Towards a mindscape of landscape: rock-art as expression of world-understanding / Sven Ouzman 4. Icon and narrative in transition: contact-period rock-art at Writing-on-Stone, southern Alberta, Canada / Michael A. Klassen 5. Rain in Bushman belief, politics and history: the rock-art of rain-making in the south-eastern mountains, southern Africa / Thomas A. Dowson 6. The many ways of dating Arnhem Land rock-art, north Australia / Christopher Chippindale and Paul S.C. Tacon 7. The 'Three Cs': fresh avenues towards European Palaeolithic art Richard Bradley 8. Daggers drawn: depictions of Bronze Age weapons in Atlantic Europe Kalle Sognnes 9. Symbols in a changing world: rock-art and the transition from hunting to farming in mid Norway Meredith Wilson 10. Pacific rock-art and cultural genesis: a multivariate exploration Ralph Hartley 11. Spatial behaviour and learning in the prehistoric environment of the Colorado River drainage (south-eastern Utah), western North America Anne Vasser 12. The tale of the chameleon and the platypus: limited and likely choices in making pictures /Benjamin Smith
Rock-art provides lively and captivating images of animals and people painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces. This collection explores how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times by adapting the methods of archaeology to the special subject of rock-art.
9780521572569 (hbk.) 9780521576192 (pbk.)
Rock paintings.
Petroglyphs.
709.013 / CHI
The Archaeology of Rock-art / Rock-art edited by Christopher Chippindale and Paul S.C. Taçon. - Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1998. - xviii, 373 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. An archaeology of rock-art through informed methods and informal methods/Paul Tacon and Christopher Chippindale; 2. Finding rain in the desert: landscape, gender and far western North American rock-art / David S. Whitley 3. Towards a mindscape of landscape: rock-art as expression of world-understanding / Sven Ouzman 4. Icon and narrative in transition: contact-period rock-art at Writing-on-Stone, southern Alberta, Canada / Michael A. Klassen 5. Rain in Bushman belief, politics and history: the rock-art of rain-making in the south-eastern mountains, southern Africa / Thomas A. Dowson 6. The many ways of dating Arnhem Land rock-art, north Australia / Christopher Chippindale and Paul S.C. Tacon 7. The 'Three Cs': fresh avenues towards European Palaeolithic art Richard Bradley 8. Daggers drawn: depictions of Bronze Age weapons in Atlantic Europe Kalle Sognnes 9. Symbols in a changing world: rock-art and the transition from hunting to farming in mid Norway Meredith Wilson 10. Pacific rock-art and cultural genesis: a multivariate exploration Ralph Hartley 11. Spatial behaviour and learning in the prehistoric environment of the Colorado River drainage (south-eastern Utah), western North America Anne Vasser 12. The tale of the chameleon and the platypus: limited and likely choices in making pictures /Benjamin Smith
Rock-art provides lively and captivating images of animals and people painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces. This collection explores how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times by adapting the methods of archaeology to the special subject of rock-art.
9780521572569 (hbk.) 9780521576192 (pbk.)
Rock paintings.
Petroglyphs.
709.013 / CHI