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| Author | : C. N. Dubelaar |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
For review see: Arie Boomert, in The Journal of Caribbean History, vol. 21, no. 1 (1987); p. 78-81; Samuel M. Wilson, in Nieuwe West-Indische Gids/New West Indian Guide, vol. 62 (1988); p. 194-195; Montalban, no. 19 (1987); p. 343.
| Author | : Michele Hayward |
| Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2009-07-14 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0817355308 |
Rock Art of the Caribbean focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition.
| Author | : David S. Whitley |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 876 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780742502567 |
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 | : C. N. Dubelaar |
| Publisher | : Caribbean |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
" South American and Caribbean Petroglyphs" offers a critical summary of the crucial data for an analysis of South American and Antillean rock inscriptions.
| Author | : Lorenc Bejko |
| Publisher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
| Total Pages | : 1178 |
| Release | : 2015-12-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1938770528 |
The burial tumulus of Lofkend lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania (ancient "Illyria"), home to a number of burial tumuli spanning the Bronze and Iron Ages of later prehistory. Some were robbed long ago, others were reused for modern burials; few were excavated under scientific conditions. Modern understanding of the pre- and protohistory of Illyria has largely been shaped by the contents of such burial mounds. What inspired the systematic exploration of Lofkend by UCLA was more than the promise of an unplundered necropolis; it was also a chance to revisit the significance of this tumulus and its fellows for the emergence of urbanism and complexity in ancient Illyria. In addition to artifacts, the recovery of surviving plant remains, bones, and other organic material contribute insights into the environmental and ecological history of the region.
| Author | : Simon J. Holdaway |
| Publisher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2017-12-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1938770501 |
The Neolithic is thought to have arrived in Egypt via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia, relatively late compared to neighboring locations. The authors suggest an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum. They provide the results of a detailed study of the Fayum archaeological landscape interpretable at different temporal and spatial scales, using an expanded version of low-level food production to organize observations concerning paleoenvironment, socioeconomy, settlement, and mobility. While domestic plants and animals were indeed introduced from elsewhere, when a number of aspects of the archaeological record are compared, a settlement system is suggested that has no obvious analogues with the Neolithic in southwest Asia. The results obtained from the Fayum are used to assess other contemporary sites in Egypt.
| Author | : Glenn M. Schwartz |
| Publisher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
| Total Pages | : 722 |
| Release | : 2024-02-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1950446433 |
Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria: An Elite Mortuary Complex from Umm el-Marra, edited by Johns Hopkins professor Glenn M. Schwartz, is a final report of the excavation of Tell Umm el-Marra in northern Syria, conducted in 1994-2010. It is likely the site of ancient Tuba, capital of a small kingdom in the Early and Middle Bronze periods, in the Jabbul plain between Aleppo and northern Mesopotamia. Its study advances our understanding of early Syrian complex society beyond the big cities of Antiquity. Of particular importance in the Early Bronze excavations are the results from the site necropolis, tombs of high-ranking persons containing objects of gold, silver, and lapis lazuli. Separate installations hold kungas (donkey x onager hybrids), sometimes along with human infants. This site provides the first archaeological attestation of the kunga equids, unique in the archaeology of third-millennium Syria and Mesopotamia.
| Author | : Geoffrey Blundell |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 632 |
| Release | : 2016-06-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1315420317 |
The purpose of Seeing and Knowing is to demonstrate the depth and wide geographical impact of David Lewis-Williams’ contribution to rock art research by emphasizing theory and methodology drawn from ethnography. Contributors explore what it means to understand and learn from rock art, and a contrast is drawn between those sites where it is possible to provide a modern, ethnographic context, and those sites where it is not. This is the definitive guide to the interplay between ethnography and rock art interpretation, and is an ideal resource for students and researchers alike.
| Author | : Juan Schobinger |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 590 |
| Release | : 2016-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317476654 |
Lavishly illustrated in full color and black and white, this handsome reference provides a broad survey of the rich artistic heritage of pre-Columbian North and South America. Meticulously researched by archaeologists and anthropologists, the set features dramatic close-ups of engraved rock artifacts, cave paintings, pottery, and inscribed and sculpted bones. Covering the entire two continents from present-day Canada in the far north through Central America and down to the Andes Mountains and Patagonia in the south, it is a stunning visual and written record of the great variety of artworks created by Neolithic American peoples over many millennia.
