Myths about Rock Art

Myths about Rock Art
Author: Robert G. Bednarik
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784914754

Rather than considering the myths supposedly depicted in the world’s rock art, this book examines the myths archaeologists and others have created about the meanings and significance of rock art.

Rock Art in Africa

Rock Art in Africa
Author: Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The only book of its kind to examine cave art throughout Africa. The paintings and engravings discovered in African caves are amazing works of art that hold clues to understanding the history of humankind.

Myths about Rock Art

Myths about Rock Art
Author: Robert G. Bednarik
Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781784914745

Rather than considering the myths supposedly depicted in the world's rock art, this book examines the myths archaeologists and others have created about the meanings and significance of rock art. This vast body of opinions dominates our concepts of the principal surviving cultural manifestations of early worldviews. Here these constructs are subjected to detailed analysis and are found to consist largely of misinterpretations. From the misidentification of natural rock markings as rock art to mistaken interpretations, from sensationalist claims to pareidolic elucidations of iconographies, the book presents numerous examples of myths researchers have created about pre-Historic 'art'. The claims about a connection between rock art and the neuropathologies of its producers are assessed, and the neuroscience of rock art interpretation is reviewed. The book presents a comprehensive catalogue of falsities claimed about palaeoart, and it endeavours to explain how these arose, and how they can be guarded against by recourse to basic principles of science. It therefore represents a key resource in the scientific study of rock art.

The Rock Art of Utah

The Rock Art of Utah
Author: Polly Schaafsma
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1994
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Over many centuries, the prehistoric Fremont and Anasazi peoples of present-day Utah left an artistic record in which distinctive styles are readily identifiable. From the Uinta Mountains through the central canyonlands to the Virgin River, Utah's abundant prehistoric rock art offers glimpses of a lost world. The Rock Art of Utah is a rich sample of the many varieties of rock art found in the state. Through nearly two hundred high-quality photographs and drawings from the Donald Scott Collection, all made during the 1920s and 1930s, rock art expert Polly Schaafsma provides a fascinating, comprehensive tour of this unique legacy. From the Uinta Mountains through the central canyonlands to the Virgin River, Utah's abundant prehistoric rock art offers glimpses of a lost world. Over many centuries, the Fremont and Anasazi peoples left an artistic record in which distinctive styles are readily identifiable. The Rock Art of Utah is a guide to the many varieties of rock art found in the state. Through dozens of high-quality photographs and drawings from the Donald Scott Collection, all made during the 1920s and 30s, author Polly Schaafsma provides a fascinating, comprehensive tour of this unique legacy. Now in an updated edition, it will engage anyone with an interest in the ancient peoples of the Colorado Plateau.

The White Shaman Mural

The White Shaman Mural
Author: Carolyn E. Boyd
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-11-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1477310304

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

San Rock Art

San Rock Art
Author: J.D. Lewis-Williams
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0821444581

San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just as many still awaiting discovery. Taking as his starting point the magnificent Linton panel in the Iziko-South African Museum in Cape Town, J. D. Lewis-Williams examines the artistic and cultural significance of rock art and how this art sheds light on how San image-makers conceived their world. It also details the European encounter with rock art as well as the contentious European interaction with the artists’ descendants, the contemporary San people.

Indian Rock Art of the Southwest

Indian Rock Art of the Southwest
Author: Polly Schaafsma
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1986
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780826309136

The comprehensive book on Indian petroglyphs in the Southwest.

Storied Stone

Storied Stone
Author: Linea Sundstrom
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806135960

Provides a look at the history of the Black Hills country over the last ten thousand years through rock art, which illustrates the rich oral traditions, religious beliefs, and sacred places of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Mandan, and Hidatsa Indians who once lived there. Original

Native American Rock Art

Native American Rock Art
Author: Yvette La Pierre
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN: 9781565660649

An introduction to native American art through petroglyphs and pictographs.

On the Trail of Spider Woman

On the Trail of Spider Woman
Author: Carol Patterson-Rudolph
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Indian mythology
ISBN: 9780941270984

Weaves together the stories of tiny elusive Spider Woman as she is mythologized by the Keresan Pueblo, Hopi and Navajo people. The myths in On the Trail of Spider Woman are those that were left in the petroglyphs and pictographs of the San Juan Basin, southeastern Utah, and northwestern New Mexico.