Animals in Bronze

Animals in Bronze
Author: Christopher Payne
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1986
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Superbly illustrated, this book not only describes the work of

Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete

Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete
Author: Andrew Shapland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2022-05-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1009151541

Reassesses the animal depictions of Bronze Age Crete in terms of human-animal relations rather than a love of nature.

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei
Author: Ai Weiwei
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2011
Genre: Animal sculpture
ISBN:

This title looks at Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 'Circle of Heads', his twelve large bronze animal heads depicting the ancient Chinese zodiac.

Champion Animals

Champion Animals
Author: Herbert Haseltine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Item is centred round the collection of the artist's sculptures in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the text largely consists of the artist's edited memoirs.

The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology

The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology
Author: Umberto Albarella
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 865
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199686475

Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites - zooarchaeology - has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past. This Handbook offers a cutting-edge, global compendium of zooarchaeology that seeks to provide a holistic view of the role played by animals in past human cultures. Case studies from across five continents explore ahuge range of human-animal interactions from an array of geographical, historical, and cultural contexts, and also illuminate the many approaches and methods adopted by different schools and traditions instudying these relationships.

Tibetan Silver, Gold and Bronze Objects and the Aesthetics of Animals in the Era Before Empire

Tibetan Silver, Gold and Bronze Objects and the Aesthetics of Animals in the Era Before Empire
Author: John Vincent Bellezza
Publisher:
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2020
Genre: Animals in art
ISBN: 9781407354354

This archaeological and art-historical study is woven around rock art and ancient metallic articles attributed to Tibet. The silver bowls, gold finial, and copper alloy spouted jars and trapezoidal plaques featured are assigned to the Iron Age and Protohistoric period. These rare objects are adorned with zoomorphic subjects mimicking those found in rock art and embody an artistic zeitgeist widely diffused in Central Eurasia in Late Prehistory. Diverse sources of inspiration and technological capability are revealed in these objects and rock art, shedding light on their transcultural dimension. The archaeological and aesthetic materials in this work prefigure the Tibetan cosmopolitanism of early historic times promoted through the spread of Buddhist ideas, art and craft from abroad.

Birds and the Culture of the European Bronze Age

Birds and the Culture of the European Bronze Age
Author: Joakim Goldhahn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2019-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108499090

Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.

Animal Classification in Central China

Animal Classification in Central China
Author: Ningning Dong
Publisher: International
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2021-07-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781407357928

This book, integrating multiple lines of evidence and their contextual information, attempts to investigate folk animal classification in central China during the late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age through archaeology.

The Symbolic Role of Animals in Archaeology

The Symbolic Role of Animals in Archaeology
Author: Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2018-09-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1949057003

The papers in this volume represent a range of approaches to the study of the symbolic roles of animals in human cultures. The theme that unites these papers is their use of a variety of different kinds of evidenceincluding archaeological, faunal, historical, ethnographic, artistic, and folkloric datain the reconstruction of animal symbolism.