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Author : Harald Floss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783867570893
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Palaeolithic Rock and Cave Art in Central Europe ? written by Harald Floss and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew J. Lawson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199698228
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Painted Caves written by Andrew J. Lawson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from an archaeological perspective, Painted Caves is a beautifully illustrated introduction to the oldest art of Western Europe: the very ancient paintings found in caves. Lawson offers an up to date overview of the geographical distribution of the sites and their significance within the varied network of Palaeolithic art.
Author : Difrine Madara
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346056201
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Interpretation of prehistoric cave art in Europe written by Difrine Madara and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Archaeology, grade: A, Kenyatta University, language: English, abstract: This essay offers a critical analysis of various explanations that have been suggested for the meaning of European Paleolithic rock art. Rock or cave art has been recorded in Europe, Americas, Africa, Australia and Asia. In Europe, some of the recorded forms of rock art date back some 36000 years ago. However, archaeological findings show that it is until 18000 years ago that the European rock art flourished. This period is linked to the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (22000-19000 years ago) as climatic conditions began to improve i.e. the most critical point of the Ice Age. Nonetheless, Upper Paleolithic rock art disappeared during the transition period between Paleolithic-Mesolithic (12000 years) as Ice Age environmental conditions faded. After over a century of research on cave art, there still exists no consensus on the meanings of these prehistoric arts. Currently, the widely accepted view on interpretation of the Upper Paleolithic art is that most cave images are manifestations of Shamanic rituals mediated through visionary experience of altered states of consciousness. However, the question on how and why art come it being in Upper Paleolithic during the Ice Age remains largely unanswered. Berghaus argued that there is no single answer to the question but rather several layers of answers highlighting the issues and relationships between art and rituals as well as behavioral, social and cognitive issues within the human evolutionary environment.
Author : Paul Pettitt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019153840X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context written by Paul Pettitt and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cave art is a subject of perennial interest among archaeologists. Until recently it was assumed that it was largely restricted to southern France and northern Iberia, although in recent years new discoveries have demonstrated that it originally had a much wider distribution. The discovery in 2003 of the UK's first examples of cave art, in two caves at Creswell Crags on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border, was the most surprising illustration of this. The discoverers (the editors of the book) brought together in 2004 a number of Palaeolithic archaeologists and rock art specialists from across the world to study the Creswell art and debate its significance, and its similarities and contrasts with contemporary Late Pleistocene ('Ice Age') art on the Continent. This comprehensively illustrated book presents the Creswell art itself, the archaeology of the caves and the region, and the wider context of the Upper Palaeolithic era in Britain, as well as a number of up-to-date studies of Palaeolithic cave art in Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy which serve to contextualize the British examples.
Author : Sergio Ripoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019929917X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context written by Sergio Ripoll and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensively illustrated book presents the Creswell art itself, the archaeology of the caves and the region, and the context of the Upper Palaeolithic era in Britain, as well as a number of studies of Palaeolithic cave art in Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy.
Author : André Leroi-Gourhan
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521244596
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (445 download)
Download or read book The Dawn of European Art written by André Leroi-Gourhan and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1982-07-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Bahn
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803277645
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Cave Art written by Paul Bahn and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For speleologists and holidaymakers alike, here is an essential handbook. The first guide to all the decorated Ice Age caves in Europe that are open to the public, fully revised and updated for a third edition, this book covers more than 50 caves in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, as well as relevant museums and centres.
Author : Paul G. Bahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781011713
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Cave Art written by Paul G. Bahn and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vicki Cummings
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191025275
Total Pages : 1361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers written by Vicki Cummings and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 1361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities. Chapters provide in-depth archaeological, historical, and anthropological case-studies, and examine far-reaching questions about human social relations, attitudes to technology, ecology, and management of resources and the environment, as well as issues of diet, health, and gender relations - all central topics in hunter-gatherer research, but also themes that have great relevance for modern global society and its future challenges. The Handbook also provides a strategic vision for how the integration of new methods, approaches, and study regions can ensure that future research into the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers will continue to deliver penetrating insights into the factors that underlie all human diversity.
Author : Jean Clottes
Publisher : Phaidon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Cave Art written by Jean Clottes and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 2008-07-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, accessible guide to prehistoric art in Europe and beyond.
Author : Genevieve von Petzinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476785503
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The First Signs written by Genevieve von Petzinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Archaeologist Genevieve von Petzinger looks past the horses, bison, ibex, and faceless humans in the ancient paintings and instead focuses on the abstract geometric images that accompany them. She offers her research on the terse symbols that appear more often than any other kinds of figures--signs that have never really been studied or explained until now"--
Author : Philip Allsworth-Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Szeletian and the Transition from Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in Central Europe written by Philip Allsworth-Jones and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 40,000 years ago during the transition between Middle and Upper Paleolithic eras in Europe, Neanderthal man was being replaced by the anatomically modern man. Dr. Allsworth-Jones explores this period, focusing on a characteristic style of Central European cave called the Szeletian. His first-hand knowledge of the caves and in-depth study of related literature support his thesis that the Szeletian caves were the creation of Neanderthal man and were thus linked to that important period in prehistory.
Author : Fernando Coimbra
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784913685
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Post-Palaeolithic Filiform Rock Art in Western Europe written by Fernando Coimbra and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This session focuses on Filiform rock art which 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.
Author : D. K. Bhattacharya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Palaeolithic Europe written by D. K. Bhattacharya and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Bahn
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500773920
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art written by Paul Bahn and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the greatest living authorities on Ice Age art delve hundreds of thousands of years into the human past to discover the earliest works of art ever made, drawing on decades of new research Where is the world’s very first art located? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms, and colors? Prehistorians have long been asking these questions, but only recently have they been able to piece together the first chapter in the story of art. Overturning the traditional Eurocentric vision of our artistic origins, Paul Bahn and Michel Lorblanchet seek out the earliest art across the whole world. There are clues that even three million years ago distant human ancestors were drawn to natural curiosities that appeared representational, such as the face-like “Makapansgat cobble" from South Africa, not carved but naturally weathered to resemble a human face. In the last hundred thousand years people all over the world began to create art: the oldest known paint palettes in South Africa’s Blombos Cave, the famous Venus figures across Europe all the way to Siberia, and magnificent murals on cave walls in every continent except Antarctica. This book is the first to assess the discovery, history, and significance of these varied forms of art: the artistic impulse developed in the human mind wherever it traveled.
Author : Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120814646
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Indian Rock Art and Its Global Context written by Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique volume in the history of rock art studies, meant at once for the advanced scholar, serious student and the curious but conscientious layman, co-authored by K.K. Chakravarty and R.G. Bednarik, who co-chaired the Rock Art session of the World Archaeological Congress 3 at Delhi in 1994. It is a synoptic but comprehensive survey, illustrated by 221 photographs and sketches, including 172 photographs in colour. The two scholars have not only described the latest state of research on rock art, but also transported rock art studies into the realm of interdisciplinary, inter-cultural analysis. Buttressed by an indicative map of the rock art regions, a list of major up to date direct dating results on rock art, a glossary of keywords related to spatial, temporal, technological, managerial categories, and an index, this volume blends precise, dispassionate descriptions with eloquent evocations. It blends conclusions distilled from rigorous, hard headed field research with penetrating criticism and assessment of the evidence. It combines a ruthless brevity and density with extraordinary felicity and clarity of language. Above all, it is an wonderful attempt at dealing with the problems of understanding, which dog human attempts to comprehend the meaning and shape of human creativity.
Author : Bruno David
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500773823
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Cave Art (World of Art) written by Bruno David and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeological exploration of the mysterious world of cave art through the ages Deep underground, some of humanity’s earliest artistic endeavors have lain untouched for millennia. The dark interiors of caves, wherever they may be found, seem to have had a powerful draw for ancient peoples, who littered the cave floors with objects they had made. Later, they adorned cave walls with sacred symbols and secret knowledge, from the very first abstract symbols and handprints to complex and vivid arrangements of animals and people. Often undisturbed for many tens of thousands of years, these were among the first visual symbols that humans shared with each other, though they were made so long ago that we have entirely forgotten their meaning. However, as archaeologist Bruno David reveals, caves decorated more recently may help us to unlock their secrets. David tells the story of this mysterious world of decorated caves, from the oldest known painting tools to the magnificent murals of the European Ice Age. Showcasing the most astounding discoveries made in more than 150 years of archaeological exploration, Cave Art explores the creative achievements of our remotest ancestors and what they tell us about the human past.
