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Author : Clement Woodward Meighan,V. L. Pontoni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035437339
Author : Clement Woodward Meighan,V. L. Pontoni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018565921
Author : Campbell Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018565900
Author : Lawrence L. Loendorf,Christopher Chippindale,David S. Whitley
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816534104
From the high plains of Canada to caves in the southeastern United States, images etched into and painted on stone by ancient Native Americans have aroused in observers the desire to understand their origins and meanings. Rock paintings and engravings can be found in nearly every state and province, and each region has its own distinctive story of discovery and evolving investigation of the rock art record. Rock art in the twenty-first century enjoys a large and growing popularity fueled by scholarly research and public interest alike. This book explores the history of rock art research in North America and is the only volume in the past twenty-five years to provide coverage of the subject on a continental scale. Written by contributors active in rock art research, it examines sites that provide a cross-section of regions and topics and complements existing books on rock art by offering new information, insights, and approaches to research. The first part of the volume explores different regional approaches to the study of rock art, including a set of varied responses to a single site as well as an overview of broader regional research investigations. It tells how Writing-on-Stone in southern Alberta, Canada, reflects changing thought about rock art from the 1870s to today; it describes the role of avocational archaeologists in the Mississippi Valley, where rock art styles differ on each side of the river; it explores discoveries in southwestern mountains and southeastern caves; and it integrates the investigation of cupules along Georgia’s Yellow River into a full study of a site and its context. The book also compares the differences between rock art research in the United States and France: from the outset, rock art was of only marginal interest to most U.S. archaeologists, while French prehistorians considered cave art an integral part of archaeological research. The book’s second part is concerned with working with the images today and includes coverage of gender interests, government sponsorship, the role of amateurs in research, and chronometric studies. Much has changed in our understanding of rock art since Cotton Mather first wrote in 1714 of a strange inscription on a Massachusetts boulder, and the cutting-edge contributions in this volume tell us much about both the ancient place of these enduring images and their modern meanings. Discovering North American Rock Art distills today’s most authoritative knowledge of the field and is an essential volume for both specialists and hobbyists.
Author : UNESCO Office Mexico
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231001406
Author : Harry W. Crosby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051117136
Author : Lawrence L. Loendorf,David S. Whitley
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781950446087
Author : Howard Morphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317598084
This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place to result in the forms of society and culture which exist now. The series brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from contingent disciplines, and also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds who could lend their own expertise to the discussions. This book is an exploration of the way in which the animal world features in the works of art of a variety of cultures of different times and places. Contributors have adopted a variety of perspectives for looking at the complex ways in which past and present humans have interrelated with beings they classify as animals. Some of the approaches are predominantly economic and ecological, some are symbolic and others philosophical or theological. All these different views are included in the interpretation of the artworks of the past, revealing some of the foci and inspirations of cultural attitudes to animals. Originally published 1989.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Sunbelt Natural History Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015048751310
"The Cave Paintings ofBaja California is a dramatic personal account of harry Crosby's serach for, and discovery of, the prehistoric rock art hidden in caves and overhangs in the remorte mountains of Baja California. ..."front flap.
Author : Matthias Strecker
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1982-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781938770258
Author : David S. Whitley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0742502562
While there has always been a large public interest in ancient pictures painted or carved on stone, the archaeological study of rock art is in its infancy. But intensive amounts of research has revolutionized this field in the past decade. New methods of dating and analysis help to pinpoint the makers of these beautiful images, new interpretive models help us understand this art in relation to culture. Identification, conservation and management of rock art sites have become major issues in historical preservation worldwide. And the number of archaeologically attested sites has mushroomed. In this handbook, the leading researchers in the rock art area provide cogent, state-of-the-art summaries of the technical, interpretive, and regional advances in rock art research. The book offers a comprehensive, basic reference of current information on key topics over six continents for archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and rock art enthusiasts.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Indian art
ISBN : WISC:89060401254
Author : Lawrence L Loendorf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315416724
This volume is the first summary and synthesis of the rock art of the American High Plains, from Archaic times to the historic period. Even more, it presents an engaging combination of Plains archaeology, rock art sites, and holistic archaeological research. This refreshing approach to rock art studies reminds us that archaeologists glean information from the whole site and everything that may have occurred there, rather than simply focusing on the images on stone. Clues to understanding rock art can be found in other images, in associated artifacts, and in ethnographic analogy. Archaeologists are shown how rock art integrates with other materials available for study. With each page, the reader will be engaged in a compelling, and comprehensive story that focuses equally on the art and the archaeology of the prehistoric plains.
Author : Günter Berghaus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313059575
Following the discovery of Franco-Caribbean cave art in the nineteenth century, standard interpretations of these works usually revolved around hunting, magic, and fertility cults. Orthodox positions such as these have weighed heavily on later generations of art historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, even those whose views dissented from those of their predecessors. In the last few decades, however, new approaches to cave art, often based on discoveries made in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and the Arctic region, have produced new insights into possible meanings and functions of prehistoric paintings and sculptures. This new collection of essays explores these insights, gathering the observations of eight experts from a variety of disciplines, and examining some of the social and spiritual functions of a variety of artistic genres ranging from 40,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C. These insights, which derive from evolutionary biology, feminist scholarship, ritual studies, and new modes of anthropology, argue collectively that prehistoric art was a culture-specific form of communication that should be interpreted in the social context of early hunger-gatherer societies and should not be measured with the criteria and paradigms of modern art. Essential reading for anyone interested in prehistoric art or its cultural implications, this volume represents a bold step forward in the research and analysis of the very first artists.
Author : Michael B Schiffer
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483214832
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 8 is a collection of papers that discusses postprocessual archaeology, bone technology, and tree-ring dating in Eastern North America. One paper discriminates between the process and norm, and eliminates the dichotomy by locating human agency and the active. It focuses on monitoring individuals as being in the center of social theory. Another paper discuses the physical model and the textual model that describe the basic components of an archaeological record. For example, the first model implies that archaeological inferences move from material components of the record to material phenomena in the past. The second model assumes that archaeological inference should move from material phenomena to mental phenomena, from material symbols to the ideas and beliefs they encode. Another paper explains the use of analogy as a useful tool in archaeological considerations. One paper investigates bones as a material for study, including the analysis of carnivore-induced fractures or hominid-induced modifications from using bones as tools. The collection is suitable for sociologists, anthropologist, professional or amateur archaeologists, and museum curators studying archaeological artifacts.