The Rock Art Of Eastern North America

Author : Carol Diaz-Granados,James R. Duncan
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817350963

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The Rock-Art of Eastern North America by Carol Diaz-Granados,James R. Duncan Pdf

Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in twelve states and four Canadian provinces In archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology at that site. Petroglyphs, pictographs, and dendroglyphs (tree carvings) have been discovered and recorded throughout the eastern woodlands of North America on boulders, bluffs, and trees, in caves and in rock shelters. These cultural remnants scattered on the landscape can tell us much about the belief systems of the inhabitants that left them behind. The Rock-Art of Eastern North America brings together 20 papers from recent research at sites in eastern North America, where humidity and the actions of weather, including acid rain, can be very damaging over time. Contributors to this volume range from professional archaeologists and art historians to avocational archaeologists, including a surgeon, a lawyer, two photographers, and an aerospace engineer. They present information, drawings, and photographs of sites ranging from the Seven Sacred Stones in Iowa to the Bald Friar Petroglyphs of Maryland and from the Lincoln Rise Site in Tennessee to the Nisula Site in Quebec. Discussions of the significance of artist gender, the relationship of rock-art to mortuary caves, and the suggestive link to the peopling of the continent are particularly notable contributions. Discussions include the history, ethnography, recording methods, dating, and analysis of the subject sites and integrate these with the known archaeological data.

Author : Grant
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521254434

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Rock Art North American Indians by Grant Pdf

Author : David S. Whitley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0742502562

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Handbook of Rock Art Research by David S. Whitley Pdf

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 : Matthias Strecker
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1982-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781938770258

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Rock Art of East Mexico and Central America by Matthias Strecker Pdf

Author : Lawrence L. Loendorf,Christopher Chippindale,David S. Whitley
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816534104

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Discovering North American Rock Art by Lawrence L. Loendorf,Christopher Chippindale,David S. Whitley Pdf

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 : Cheryl Claassen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259315

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Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America by Cheryl Claassen Pdf

In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is often overlooked. The authors in this book focus on rituals exploring the natural and made landscape stages, the ritual directors, including their progression from shaman to priesthood, and meaning of the rites. They also provide comments on the end or failure of rites and cults from Paleoindian into post-DeSoto years. Chapters examine the archaeological records of Cahokia, the lower Ohio Valley, Aztalan Wisconsin, Vermont, Florida, and Georgia, and others scan the Eastern US, investigating tobacco/datura, color symbolism, deer symbolism, mound stratigraphy, flintknapping, stone caching, cults and their organization, and red ochre. These authors collectively query the beliefs that can be gleaned from mortuary practices and their variation, from mound construction, from imagery, from the choice of landscape setting. While some rituals were short-lived, others can be shown to span millennia as the ritual specialists modified their interpretations and introduced innovations.

Author : Carol Diaz-Granados,Jan F. Simek,George Sabo,Mark J. Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1785706292

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Transforming the Landscape by Carol Diaz-Granados,Jan F. Simek,George Sabo,Mark J. Wagner Pdf

Author : Iain Davidson,April Nowell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789209211

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Making Scenes by Iain Davidson,April Nowell Pdf

Dating back to at least 50,000 years ago, rock art is one of the oldest forms of human symbolic expression. Geographically, it spans all the continents on Earth. Scenes are common in some rock art, and recent work suggests that there are some hints of expression that looks like some of the conventions of western scenic art. In this unique volume examining the nature of scenes in rock art, researchers examine what defines a scene, what are the necessary elements of a scene, and what can the evolutionary history tell us about storytelling, sequential memory, and cognitive evolution among ancient and living cultures?

Author : Jamie Hampson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : PSU:000026629995

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Rock Art of the American Indian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alex Patterson
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 1555660916

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A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest by Alex Patterson Pdf

A key to the interpretation of rock art of the American Southwest, providing descriptions and illustrations of rock art symbols, along with their ascribed meanings, and including general and specific information on rock art sites.

Author : Christopher Chippindale,Paul S. C. Taçon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Edward J. Lenik
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 1584651970

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Picture Rocks by Edward J. Lenik Pdf

Located along rivers, at the edges of lakes, on mountain boulders, in rock shelters, on rock ledges where the continent meets the ocean, and tucked into parks and public places, American Indian rock art offers tantilizing glimpses of the signs and symbols of a Native American culture. Picture Rocks documents all known permanent petroglyph and pictograph sites from the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the six New England states, New York, and New Jersey. Some sites are subject to disputes over their origins—Indian or Portuguese? Some are ancient, and others, such as the work of the Mi’kmaq, were executed in the past 200 years. Many of these sites are little known; others, like those at Bellows Falls, Vermont, are sources of great local pride and appear on city walking tours. Interspersing his own interpretations with comments from scholars and Native American storytellers, Edward J. Lenik provides a definitive look at an extraordinary art form. Two hundred illustrations include historic sketches by early Euro-American colonists, nineteenth-century photographs, and recent photographs and drawings of the current conditions of many sites.

Author : Edward J. Lenik
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817355098

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Making Pictures in Stone by Edward J. Lenik Pdf

A full range of rock art appearances, including dendroglyphs, pictographs, and a selection of portable rock objects The Indians of northeastern North America are known to us primarily through reports and descriptions written by European explorers, clergy, and settlers, and through archaeological evidence. An additional invaluable source of information is the interpretation of rock art images and their relationship to native peoples for recording practical matters or information, as expressions of their legends and spiritual traditions, or as simple doodling or graffiti. The images in this book connect us directly to the Indian peoples of the Northeast, mainly Algonkian tribes inhabiting eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland and the lower Potomac River Valley, New York, New Jersey, the six New EnglandStates, and Atlantic Canada. Lenik provides a full range of rock art appearances in the study area, including some dendroglyphs, pictographs, and a selection of portable rock objects. By providing a full analysis and synthesis of the data, including the types and distribution of the glyphs, and interpretations of their meaning to the native peoples, Lenik reveals a wealth of new information on the culture and lifeways of the Indians of the Northeast.

Author : American Rock Art Research Association. Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Bear Gulch Site (Mont.)
ISBN : 0976712156

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American Indian Rock Art by American Rock Art Research Association. Conference Pdf