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Reading Rock Art

Author : Grace Rajnovich
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770706739
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Reading Rock Art written by Grace Rajnovich and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2002-02-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 400 rock paintings adorn the Canadian Shield from Quebec, across Ontario and as far west as Saskatchewan. The pictographs are the legacy of the Algonkian-speaking Cree and Ojibway, whose roots may extend to the beginnings of human occupancy in the region almost 10,000 years ago. Archaeologist Grace Rajnovich spent fourteen years of field research uncovering a multitude of clues as to the meanings of the paintings. She has written a text which is unique in its ability to "see" the paintings from a traditional native viewpoint. Skilfully weaving the imagery, metaphors and traditions of the Cree and Ojibway, the author has recaptured the poetry and wisdom of an ancient culture. Chief Willie Wilson of the Rainy River Band considers Grace's work "innovative and original."

Handbook of Rock Art Research

Author : David S. Whitley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742502567
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Rock Art Research by : David S. Whitley

Download or read book Handbook of Rock Art Research written by David S. Whitley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Guide to Rock Art Sites

Author : David S. Whitley
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780878423323
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Rock Art Sites written by David S. Whitley and published by Mountain Press Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique full-color field guide is essential for anyone who seeks to understand why shamans in the Far West created rock art and what they sought to depict. Whitley is on the cutting edge of dating and interpreting the images as well as describing the

Introduction to Rock Art Research

Author : David Whitley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315425998
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Rock Art Research written by David Whitley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005, this brief introduction to methods of studying rock art has become the standard text for courses on this topic. It was also selected as a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book in 2005. Internationally-known rock art researcher David Whitley takes the reader through the various processes needed to document, interpret, and preserve this fragile category of artifact. Using examples from around the globe, he offers a comprehensive guide to rock art studies of value to archaeologists and art historians, their students, and rock art aficionados. The second edition of this classic work has additional material on mapping sites, ethnographic analogy, neuropsychological models, and Native American consultation.

Canyon Country Prehistoric Rock Art

Author : Francis Audrey Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Canyon Country Prehistoric Rock Art written by Francis Audrey Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes information on protected rock art sites in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. Gives information on these special rock art areas: Albuquerque and Santa Fe Area; Arches National Park; Bandelier National Monument Area; Canyon de Chelly National Monument; Canyonlands National Park--Maze Area; Canyonlands National Park--Needles Area; Capitol Reef National Park;Central Utah Area; Chaco Canyon Area; Desolation-Gray Canyon of the Green River; Grand Canyon National Park; Grand Gulch Primitive Area;Hovenweep National Monument; Indian Creek Canyon; Moab Area; Petrified Forest National Park; San Juan River Gorge; Three Rivers Area; Uintah Basin Area; West-Central Colorado Area; Zuñi-Cibola Area; miscellaneous areas; and Anasazi celestial rock art.

Reading Rock Art

Author : Grace Rajnovich
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 0920474721
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Reading Rock Art written by Grace Rajnovich and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2002-02-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 400 rock paintings adorn the Canadian Shield from Quebec to Saskatchewan, the legacy of the Algonkian-speaking Cree and Ojibwa.

Stories on Stone

Author : Jennifer Owings Dewey
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 1623340683
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Stories on Stone written by Jennifer Owings Dewey and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories on Stone introduces young readers to the rich history and mystery of rock art in the Southwest. As a youngster growing up in the American Southwest, Jennifer Dewey became fascinated with the images she saw carved in stone years before by the area's natives. For this book, Dewey has produced original color drawings that vividly recreate the images painted and carved into rocks centuries ago. Dewey explores who the original artists were and what their rock art meant, introducing young readers to the beauty and mystery of these images and stories on stone.

Storied Stone

Author : Linea Sundstrom
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806135960
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Storied Stone written by Linea Sundstrom and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a look at the history of the Black Hills country over the last ten thousand years through rock art, which illustrates the rich oral traditions, religious beliefs, and sacred places of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Mandan, and Hidatsa Indians who once lived there. Original

Rock Art in New Mexico

Author : Polly Schaafsma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890132326
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Rock Art in New Mexico written by Polly Schaafsma and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1972, this edition of Rock Art in New Mexico was revised and updated in 1992. In it, Poly Schaafsma presents a corpus of rock art, with comment and descriptions, found in north-west New Mexico, southern New Mexico, the Upper Rio Grande, eastern New Mexico and the southern High Plains. Examples of rock art and petroglyophs are cited from prehistoric times to those created by the Anasazi, Apache and, most recently, the Spanish.

Reading Rock Art

Author : Grace Rajnovich
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554882729
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Native American Rock Art

Author : Yvette La Pierre
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781565660649
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Native American Rock Art written by Yvette La Pierre and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to native American art through petroglyphs and pictographs.

Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: A Reader

Author : George Nash
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784915610
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: A Reader by : George Nash

Download or read book Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: A Reader written by George Nash and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why publish a Reader? Today, it is relatively easy and convenient to switch on your computer and download an academic paper. However, as many scholars have experienced, historic references are difficult to access. Moreover, some are now lost and are merely references in later papers. This can be frustrating.

Rock Art

Author : Janette Deacon
Publisher : Rainbow Reading Archeology
ISBN 13 : 9780521758772
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Rock Art written by Janette Deacon and published by Rainbow Reading Archeology. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This information book tells the reader about rock art, and southern African rock art in particular. It uses many clear photographs to show learners lots of examples of rock art, including paintings and engravings. The book tells the reader what rock art is, who made it, when it was made and how it is studied. It encourages readers to think about how to interpret the pictures and looks at how archaeologists have interpreted rock art.

War Stories

Author : James D. Keyser
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800739753
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book War Stories written by James D. Keyser and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plains Indian biographic rock art can be “read” by those knowledgeable in its lexicon. Presented is a lexicon of imagery, conventions, and symbols used by Plains Indians to communicate their warfare and social narratives. The reader is introduced to Plains Indian “warrior” art in all media, biographic art as picture writing is explained, and the lexicon is described, providing a pictographic “dictionary,” and explains conventions and connotations. Finally, it illustrates four key examples of how these narratives are read by the observer. Familiarity with the lexicon will enable interested scholars and laypersons to understand what are otherwise enigmatic rock art drawings found from Calgary, Alberta through ten U.S. states, and into the Mexican state of Coahuila.

Plains Indian Rock Art

Author : James D. Keyser
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806842
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Plains Indian Rock Art written by James D. Keyser and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plains region that stretches from northern Colorado to southern Alberta and from the Rockies to the western Dakotas is the land of the Cheyenne and the Blackfeet, the Crow and the Sioux. Its rolling grasslands and river valleys have nurtured human cultures for thousands of years. On cave walls, glacial boulders, and riverside cliffs, native people recorded their ceremonies, vision quests, battles, and daily activities in the petroglyphs and pictographs they incised, pecked, or painted onto the stone surfaces. In this vast landscape, some rock art sites were clearly intended for communal use; others just as clearly mark the occurrence of a private spiritual encounter. Elders often used rock art, such as complex depictions of hunting, to teach traditional knowledge and skills to the young. Other sites document the medicine powers and brave deeds of famous warriors. Some Plains rock art goes back more than 5,000 years; some forms were made continuously over many centuries. Archaeologists James Keyser and Michael Klassen show us the origins, diversity, and beauty of Plains rock art. The seemingly endless variety of images include humans, animals of all kinds, weapons, masks, mazes, handprints, finger lines, geometric and abstract forms, tally marks, hoofprints, and the wavy lines and starbursts that humans universally associate with trancelike states. Plains Indian Rock Art is the ultimate guide to the art form. It covers the natural and archaeological history of the northwestern Plains; explains rock art forms, techniques, styles, terminology, and dating; and offers interpretations of images and compositions.

Australian Rock Art

Author : Robert Layton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521346665
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Australian Rock Art written by Robert Layton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-11-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of Australian rock art, presenting detailed case studies revealing the significance of both recent and ancient art for Australia's living indigenous communities.

The Archaeology of Rock-Art

Author : Christopher Chippindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521576192
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Rock-Art written by Christopher Chippindale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures, painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces, are amongst our loveliest relics from prehistory. This pioneering set of sparkling essays goes beyond guesses as to what the pictures mean, instead exploring how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times: in short, rock-art as archaeology. Sometimes contact-period records offer some direct insight about indigenous meaning, so we can learn in that informed way. More often, we have no direct record, and instead have to use formal methods to learn from the evidence of the pictures themselves. The book's eighteen papers range wide in space and time, from the Palaeolithic of Europe to nineteenth-century Australia. Using varied approaches within the consistent framework of informed and proven methods, they make key advances in using the striking and reticent evidence of rock-art to archaeological benefit.