Rock Art in the Americas: Mythology, Cosmogony and Rituals : Proceedings of the 2nd REEA Conference Ritual Americas: Configurations and Recombining of the Ritual Devices and Behaviors in the New World, in Historical and Contemporary Societies Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) April 2-5, 2008 [Paperback]

Françoise Fauconnier (Editor); Serge Lemaitre (Editor)

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ISBN: 9781407310527 | Published by: British Archaeological Reports | Series: BAR S | Volume: 2448 | Year of Publication: 2012 | Language: Spanish/English 138p,



Rock Art in the Americas: Mythology, Cosmogony and Rituals

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Contents: Introduction (Françoise Fauconnier and Serge Lemaitre); 1) Rock art sites as spiritual places ? Canadian Shield rock art as part of the Algonquian sacred landscape (Daniel Arsenault); 2) Thunderbirds and Horned Snakes: Cosmogony at Canadian Rock Art Sites (Serge Lemaitre); 3) Cueva de la Serpiente: Interpretive Analysis of an Archaic Great Mural Rock Art Panel, Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico (Roberto Martínez, Larissa Mendoza and Ramón Vinas); 4) El Salto del Perro, Durango, México: La construcción de un paisaje sagrado en los confines de Mesoamérica (Fernando Berrojalbiz y Marie-Areti Hers); 5) Paisaje y petrograbados del sitio de la Ferrería, Durango, México (José Luis Punzo Díaz); 6) Imágenes de guerreros en el arte rupestre del norte de Michoacán. Una aproximación a los ritos de los cazadores recolectores del Posclásico (Brigitte Faugère); 7) The Cave of the Bat, a Primordial Cave of the Sun, Acapulco, Mexico (Martha Cabrera Guerrero); 8) Myths and Oral Tradition in the Study of Rock Art: High Plains of Cundinamarca-Boyaca, Past Ethnohistory and Country Folk Tradition (Guillermo Munoz C.); 9) The Rock Art of the Bochica Route. Possible Connections between Oral Tradition and Sense and Function of Rock Art (Judith Trujillo Téllez); 10) El arte rupestre del río San Juan del Oro (Bolivia): Reflexiones sobre el simbolismo y la función de las imágenes (Françoise Fauconnier).

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