Rock Art
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The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art [Hardback]
Paul Bahn (Author); Michel Lorblanchet (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780500051870
Published by : Thames and Hudson
Where do we find the world's very first art? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms and colours? Were our once-cousins, the Neanderthals, also capable of creating art? Prehistorians have been asking these que... .... Learn More -
Cave Art [Paperback]
Bruno David (Author)
£12.95ISBN: 9780500204351
Published by : Thames and Hudson
Deep underground, hidden from view, some of humanity's earliest artistic endeavours have lain buried for thousands of years. The most ancient artworks were portable objects, left on cave floors. Shell beads signal that 100,000 years ago humans had... .... Learn More -
Myths about Rock Art [Paperback]
Robert G. Bednarik (Author)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £24.00
ISBN: 9781784914745
Published by : Archaeopress
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 o... .... Learn More -
Sagaholm: North European Bronze Age rock art and burial ritual [Paperback]
Joachim Goldhahn (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9781785702648
Published by : Oxbow Books
This major new study by one of Europe’s leading prehistorians presents and discusses a series of rock art engravings from a Bronze Age barrow in Ljungarum parish, Jönköping Län, situated in the central part of southern Sweden. Sagaholm contains th... .... Learn More -
Paleoart and Materiality: The Scientific Study of Rock Art [Paperback]
Robert G. Bednarik (Editor); Danae Fiore (Editor); Mara Basile (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9781784914295
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
This book contains a series of selected papers presented at two symposia entitled 'Scientific study of rock art', one held in the IFRAO Congress of Rock Art in La Paz, Bolivia, in June 2012, the other held in the IFRAO Congress in Caceres, Spain, ... .... Learn More -
Rock Art Studies: News of the World V [Paperback]
Paul Bahn (Editor); Natalie R. Franklin (Editor); Matthias Strecker (Editor); Ekaterina Devlet (Editor)
£70.00ISBN: 9781784913533
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
This is the fifth volume in the series Rock Art Studies: News of the World. Like the previous editions, it covers rock art research and management across the globe over a five-year period, in this case the years 2010 to 2014 inclusive. The current... .... Learn More -
Public Images Private Readings: Multi-Perspective Approaches to the Post-Palaeolithic Rock Art: Volume 5 / Session A11e: Proceedings of the XVII ... of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences) [Paperback]
Ramon Fabregas Valcarce (Editor); Carlos Rodriguez-Rellan (Editor)
£22.00ISBN: 9781784912895
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
A significant number of Holocene societies throughout the world have resorted at one time or another to the making of paints or carvings on different places (tombs, rock-shelters or caves, openair outcrops). The aim of the session A11e. Public ima... .... Learn More -
Post-Palaeolithic Filiform Rock Art in Western Europe [Paperback]
Fernando Coimbra (Editor); Umberto Sansoni (Editor)
£24.00ISBN: 9781784913670
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
Filiform rock art appears as a spontaneous technique, more simple and immediate than pecking, good either for autonomous strands of expression, or for sketches and first drafts regarding works of painting or pecking. According to the order of pres... .... Learn More -
What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity [Paperback]
Jean Clottes (Author)
£13.50ISBN: 9780226266633
Published by : University of Chicago Press
Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or w... .... Learn More -
Rock Art Through Time: Scanian rock carvings in the Bronze Age and Earliest Iron Age [Hardback]
Peter Skoglund (Author)
Regular Price: £20.00
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9781785701641
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Swedish Rock Art Research Series
Volume: 5
As in many other areas in south Scandinavia, the region surrounding the city of Simrishamn in south-east Scania has a great many Bronze Age mounds that are still visible in the landscape, and records from the museums demonstrate that the area is r... .... Learn More
