Rock Art Of The Lower Pecos

Author : Carolyn E. Boyd
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 1585442593

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Rock Art of the Lower Pecos by Carolyn E. Boyd Pdf

Boyd seed a way that hunter-gatherer artists expressed their belief systems; provided a mechanism for social and environmental adaptation; and acted as agents in the social, economic, and ideological affairs of the community. She offers detailed information gleaned from the art regarding the nature of the Lower Pecos cosmos, ritual practices involving the use of sacramental and medicinal plants, and hunter-gatherer lifeways.

Author : James Burr Harrison Macrae
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623496401

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Pecos River Style Rock Art by James Burr Harrison Macrae Pdf

Pecos River style pictographs are one of the most complex forms of rock art worldwide. The dramatic prehistoric pictographs on the limestone overhangs of the lower Pecos and Devils Rivers in West Texas have been the subject of preservation and study since the 1930s, and dedicated research continues to this day. The medium is large-scale, polychrome pictographs in open rock shelter settings, emphasizing the animistic/shamanistic religion practiced by the local aboriginal peoples. Creating large-scale rock murals required intelligence, skill, and knowledge. These enigmatic images, some dating to 4,500 years ago and possibly earlier, depict strange, vaguely human and animal shapes and various geometric forms. While full understanding of the meaning of these images is abstruse, archaeologists and other scholars have identified what they believe to be patterns and religious themes, mixed with what could be figures and objects from everyday life in the local hunter-gatherer culture as it existed in the region centuries before the arrival of colonizing Europeans. Although interpretation of these pictographs remains controversial, in Pecos River Style Rock Art: A Prehistoric Iconography, James Burr Harrison Macrae contributes to the beginnings of a syntactic “grammar” for these images that can be applied in diverse contexts without direct reference to any particular interpretation. “The strength of structural-iconographic analysis,” Macrae writes, “is that it relies on repetitive patterns rather than idiosyncratic information, such as trying to make broad inferences from one or only a few sites.” Pecos River Style Rock Art offers the framework of an empirical methodology for understanding these ancient artworks.

Author : Harry J. Shafer,Georg Zappler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UOM:39015011606608

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Ancient Texans by Harry J. Shafer,Georg Zappler Pdf

This book is about, Indians of North America, Rock painting - Texas, Petroglyphs - Texas, Antiquities, Pecos River Valley.

Author : Harry J. Shafer,Georg Zappler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : WISC:89060391745

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Ancient Texans by Harry J. Shafer,Georg Zappler Pdf

This book is about, Indians of North America, Rock painting - Texas, Petroglyphs - Texas, Antiquities, Pecos River Valley.

Author : Harry J. Shafer
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 1595340866

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Painters in Prehistory by Harry J. Shafer Pdf

The story of ancient canyon dwellers along the Lower Pecos and their culture

Author : Carolyn E. Boyd,Kim Cox
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477310304

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The White Shaman Mural by Carolyn E. Boyd,Kim Cox Pdf

Folded plate (1 leaf, 39 x 61 cm, folded to 19 x 16 cm) in pocket.

Author : Forrest Kirkland,Jr. Newcomb. W. W.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015041087845

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The Rock Art of Texas Indians by Forrest Kirkland,Jr. Newcomb. W. W. Pdf

"In The Rock Art of Texas Indians, Kirkland's meticulous watercolor copies of this rich and diversified art are reproduced, 32 in full color, the rest in black and white. The informative and engaging text is contributed by W. W. Newcomb, Jr., former director of the Texas Memorial Museum and author of The Indians of Texas." "Those early Indians, at different times and places and in a variety of styles, carved and painted their art from Paint Rock in West Central Texas to the canyons of the Big Bend, from the Canadian River Valley in the Panhandle to the Hueco Tanks near El Paso. As the form for this art was varied, so too were the reasons for its execution. Much rock art was no doubt born of magical and religious beliefs, or served to illustrate myths, but some apparently commemorated actual events and some seems to have been only tallies or messages. Kirkland recorded it all with consummate skill, preserving for other generations, as he said he would, the often remarkable, always fascinating art of vanished people."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Christopher Chippindale,Paul S. C. Taçon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521576199

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The Archaeology of Rock-Art by Christopher Chippindale,Paul S. C. Taçon Pdf

Pictures, painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces, are amongst our loveliest relics from prehistory. This pioneering set of sparkling essays goes beyond guesses as to what the pictures mean, instead exploring how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times: in short, rock-art as archaeology. Sometimes contact-period records offer some direct insight about indigenous meaning, so we can learn in that informed way. More often, we have no direct record, and instead have to use formal methods to learn from the evidence of the pictures themselves. The book's eighteen papers range wide in space and time, from the Palaeolithic of Europe to nineteenth-century Australia. Using varied approaches within the consistent framework of informed and proven methods, they make key advances in using the striking and reticent evidence of rock-art to archaeological benefit.

Author : Jamie Hampson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315420721

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Rock Art and Regional Identity by Jamie Hampson Pdf

Why did the ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean? This careful study of rock art motifs in the Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in South Africa demonstrates that there are archaeological and anthropological ways of accessing the past in order to investigate and explain the significance of rock art motifs. Using two disparate regions shows the possibility of comparative rock art studies and highlights the importance of regional studies and regional variations. This is an ideal resource for students and researchers.

Author : Jim Zintgraff,Solveig A. Turpin
Publisher : Rock Art Foundation
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Indian painting
ISBN : 0963381105

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Pecos River Rock Art by Jim Zintgraff,Solveig A. Turpin Pdf

A collection of some of the rock art and it's interpretation to be found along the Pecos River.

Author : Jo McDonald,Peter Veth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118253922

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A Companion to Rock Art by Jo McDonald,Peter Veth Pdf

This unique guide provides an artistic and archaeological journey deep into human history, exploring the petroglyphic and pictographic forms of rock art produced by the earliest humans to contemporary peoples around the world. Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars Includes new discoveries and research, illustrated with over 160 images (including 30 color plates) from major rock art sites around the world Examines key work of noted authorities (e.g. Lewis-Williams, Conkey, Whitley and Clottes), and outlines new directions for rock art research Is broadly international in scope, identifying rock art from North and South America, Australia, the Pacific, Africa, India, Siberia and Europe Represents new approaches in the archaeological study of rock art, exploring issues that include gender, shamanism, landscape, identity, indigeneity, heritage and tourism, as well as technological and methodological advances in rock art analyses

Author : Bruno David,Ian J. McNiven
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 1185 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190607357

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art by Bruno David,Ian J. McNiven Pdf

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. For more information, please read the site FAQs.

Author : Carolyn Elizabeth Boyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:42657050

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The Work of Art by Carolyn Elizabeth Boyd Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Kiva Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : WISC:89082413857

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The Rock Art of Arizona by Anonim Pdf

A mouse couple, in search of the mightiest husband for their daughter, approach the sun, the clouds, the wind, and a butte, before the unexpected victor finally appears.

Author : David Coulson,Alec C. Campbell
Publisher : Harry N Abrams B.V.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106015220954

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African Rock Art by David Coulson,Alec C. Campbell Pdf

Contains more than two hundred photographs of Africa's rock art, coupled with historical and interpretive analyses, compiled to raise public awareness of the variety, importance, and frailty of these works.