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Author : Daniel DuVall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9945164341
Author : Michele Hayward,Michael A, Cinquino,Lesley-Gail Atkinson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817355302
Rock Art of the Caribbean focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition.
Author : Bernardo Urbani,Dionisios Youlatos,Andrzej T. Antczak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108487337
The first compendium of archaeoprimatological studies, covering past relationships between humans and nonhuman primates across the world.
Author : Paul Bahn,Natalie Franklin,Matthias Strecker
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784913540
This is the fifth volume in the series Rock Art Studies: News of the World. Like the previous editions, it covers rock art research and management across the globe over a five-year period, in this case the years 2010 to 2014 inclusive.
Author : Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty,Robert G. Bednarik,Indirā Gāndhī Rāshṭrīya Mānava Saṅgrahālaya
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art, Prehistoric
ISBN : 8120814649
This is a unique volume in the history of rock art studies, meant at once for the advanced scholar, serious student and the curious but conscientious layman, co-authored by K.K. Chakravarty and R.G. Bednarik, who co-chaired the Rock Art session of the World Archaeological Congress 3 at Delhi in 1994. It is a synoptic but comprehensive survey, illustrated by 221 photographs and sketches, including 172 photographs in colour. The two scholars have not only described the latest state of research on rock art, but also transported rock art studies into the realm of interdisciplinary, inter-cultural analysis. Buttressed by an indicative map of the rock art regions, a list of major up to date direct dating results on rock art, a glossary of keywords related to spatial, temporal, technological, managerial categories, and an index, this volume blends precise, dispassionate descriptions with eloquent evocations. It blends conclusions distilled from rigorous, hard headed field research with penetrating criticism and assessment of the evidence. It combines a ruthless brevity and density with extraordinary felicity and clarity of language. Above all, it is an wonderful attempt at dealing with the problems of understanding, which dog human attempts to comprehend the meaning and shape of human creativity.
Author : Basil A Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351169189
Comprising 17 chapters and with a wide geographic reach stretching from the Florida Keys in the north to the Guianas in the south, this volume places a well-needed academic spotlight on what is generally considered an integral topic in Caribbean and circum-Caribbean archaeology. The book explores a variety of issues, including the introduction and dispersal of early cultivars, plant manipulation, animal domestication, dietary profiles, and landscape modifications. Tried-and-true and novel analytical techniques are used to tease out aspects of the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean database that inform the complex and often-subtle processes of domestication under varying socio-environmental conditions. Contributors discuss their findings within multiple constructs such as neolithisation, social interaction, trade, mobility, social complexity, migration, colonisation, and historical ecology. Multiple data sources are used which include but are not restricted to rock art, cooking pits and pots, stable isotopes, dental calculus and pathologies, starch grains, and proxies for past environmental conditions. Given its multi-disciplinary approaches, this volume should be of immense value to both researchers and students of Caribbean archaeology, biogeography, ethnobotany, zooarchaeology, historical ecology, agriculture, environmental studies, history, and other related fields.
Author : Michael A. Susko
Publisher : AllrOneofUs Publishing
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781393818359
This work explores the meaning of imagery found on rocks, especially from deep caves of the paleolithic era. It approaches the problem of interpretation by focusing on a key concept, that art and ritual generate life. A novel hypothesis is also offered that creativity emerges from a tension between chaotic elements and more formed shapes. Past interpretive frames, statistical studies, and indigenous parallels are summoned to examine these archetypal expressions. We invite you to explore indigenous imagery as an adventure that opens up your own spiritual dimension and earliest roots.
Author : William F. Keegan,Corinne L. Hofman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190647353
The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. They range from low limestone islands barely above sea level to volcanic islands with mountainous peaks; from large islands to small cays; from islands with tropical rainforests to those with desert habitats. Today's inhabitants have equally diverse culture histories. The islands are home to a mosaic of indigenous communities and to the descendants of Spanish, French, Dutch, English, Swedish, Danish, Irish, African, East Indian, Chinese, Syrian, Seminole and other nationalities who settled there during historic times. The islands are now being homogenized, all to create a standard experience for the Caribbean tourist. There is a similar attempt to homogenize the Caribbean's pre-Columbian past. It was assumed that every new prehistoric culture had developed out of the culture that preceded it. We now know that far more complicated processes of migration, acculturation, and accommodation occurred. Furthermore, the overly simplistic distinction between the "peaceful Arawak" and the "cannibal Carib," which forms the structure for James Michener's Caribbean, still dominates popular notions of precolonial Caribbean societies. This book documents the diversity and complexity that existed in the Caribbean prior to the arrival of Europeans, and immediately thereafter. The diversity results from different origins, different histories, different contacts between the islands and the mainland, different environmental conditions, and shifting social alliances. Organized chronologically, from the arrival of the first humans-the paleo-Indians-in the sixth millennium BC to early contact with Europeans, The Caribbean before Columbus presents a new history of the region based on the latest archaeological evidence. The authors also consider cultural developments on the surrounding mainland, since the islands' history is a story of mobility and exchange across the Caribbean Sea, and possibly the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Straits. The result is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the richly complex cultures who once inhabited the six archipelagoes of the Caribbean.
Author : Mariko Namba Walter,Eva Jane Neumann Fridman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781576076460
A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.
Author : Campbell Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018565900
Author : James A. Doyle
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397072
Arte del Mar explores the diverse, interconnected history of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, where the sea was a vital source of cultural exchange. Before the arrival of Europeans, Caribbean societies formed a vast, multilingual network characterized by complex relationships among neighbors and distant contacts alike. Colonization and the subsequent forced mass migration of enslaved peoples from Africa later contributed to the heterogeneous culture of the region. Providing the first holistic look at Caribbean art, this Bulletin features masterworks from the early first millennium to the present, including works by celebrated Taíno artists from the Greater Antilles, as well as fascinating objects from lesser-known societies such as the Tairona from Colombia; the diverse kingdoms in Veraguas, Panama; and the communities in the Ulúa Valley, Honduras. A brief exploration of more contemporary artistic practice yields further insight into this unique ancestral legacy. Whether ancient or modern, the artworks presented here share a formal grammar linking politics, mythology, and ritual performance, revealing a distinctly Caribbean approach to creativity.
Author : Bansi Lal Malla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art, Prehistoric
ISBN : 8173054916
Special lectures delivered at the International Conference on Rock Art, held at New Delhi during 6th December 2012 to 23rd January 2013.
Author : Joakim Goldhahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108499095
Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.
Author : Bruno David,Paul Taçon,Jean-Jacques Delannoy,Jean-Michel Geneste
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760461621
Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually most impressive regional assemblages anywhere in the world. To better understand this multi-dimensional cultural record, The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia focuses on the nature and antiquity of the region’s rock art as revealed by archaeological surveys and excavations, and the application of novel analytical methods. This volume also presents new findings by which to rethink how Aboriginal peoples have socially engaged in and with places across western Arnhem Land, from the north to the south, from the plains to the spectacular rocky landscapes of the plateau. The dynamic nature of Arnhem Land rock art is explored and articulated in innovative ways that shed new light on the region’s deep time Aboriginal history.
Author : Patricia S. Barry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015022012010
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