Rock Art

ISBN: 9781591026365
Published by : Prometheus Books
The palaeolithic cave paintings of France and Spain have long proved inspirational and controversial. In this intriguing book David Whitley provides his own highly personal take on the origins of the art, its meaning and on the birth of religio... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848020252
Published by : English Heritage
Creswell Crags, located on the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire border, is a limestone gorge honeycombed with caves and smaller fissures, and was among the most northerly places on earth to have been visited by our ancient ancestors, a story that... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407306056
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Eighteen essays from the 15th uispp congress which look at the iconography and symbolism of prehistoric art, focusing in the main on rock art. Papers include reports on new discoveries, such as some schematic Neolithic and Chalcothic engravings... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407306193
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This volume brings together 19 studies of open air rock carving on the prehistoric Atlantic region. Regional case studies include Ireland, Brittany, Galicia, Portugal, Morocco and Western Sahara, as well as a particular focus on the Canary Isla... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598742640
Published by : Left Coast Press
This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent soc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598742657
Published by : Left Coast Press
This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent soc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598741520
Published by : Left Coast Press
An explicitly archaeological study of the rock art of the High Plains region of southeastern Colorado. Loendorf traces the development of rock art in the area from prehistoric times into the historic period, setting the art firmly in its contex... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780752446349
Published by : Tempus Publishing Ltd
Oxbw says: Just as the title implies, this is not a gazetteer of prehistoric rock art in the North York Moors, but an interpretation of both previously known and newly revealed marked stones and their relevance to the prehistoric landscape. A f... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842173169
Published by : Oxbow Books
This is the third in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions. The volu... .... Learn More