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Author : Ione Rudner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Conservation of Rock Art in South Africa written by Ione Rudner and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Coulson
Publisher : Harry N Abrams B.V.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book African Rock Art written by David Coulson and published by Harry N Abrams B.V.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than two hundred photographs of Africa's rock art, coupled with historical and interpretive analyses, compiled to raise public awareness of the variety, importance, and frailty of these works.
Author : Neville Agnew
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (944 download)
Download or read book Rock Art written by Neville Agnew and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.D. Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821444581
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book San Rock Art written by J.D. Lewis-Williams and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just as many still awaiting discovery. Taking as his starting point the magnificent Linton panel in the Iziko-South African Museum in Cape Town, J. D. Lewis-Williams examines the artistic and cultural significance of rock art and how this art sheds light on how San image-makers conceived their world. It also details the European encounter with rock art as well as the contentious European interaction with the artists’ descendants, the contemporary San people.
Author : A.R. Willcox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315515350
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The Rock Art of Africa written by A.R. Willcox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been known that all forms of art – rock paintings, carvings and scribings, and also portable sculpture – are present at various locations throughout Africa. This book was the first inclusive survey and brings together in one volume accounts of African rock art which were previously scattered in scholarly monographs, journals and travellers’ tales. The range of the coverage is geophysically comprehensive, from the Atlas Mountains to the Cape of Good Hope. The art styles are set into a firm chronological framework, and are displayed against a background of human, physical and cultural evolution. Considerable discussion is also devoted to the varied purposes which the paintings and carvings served in the communities which produced them, looking at the differing interpretations fully and fairly. A fascinating collection of illustrations, some in colour, truly reflects the variety of forms in which African rock art is manifested. Originally published 1984.
Author : G. Avery
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Rock Art Conservation in South Africa written by G. Avery and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-Aboriginal contents; causes and effects in deterioration of rock paintings, and proposed conservation measures.
Author : Lenka Tucek
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638778029
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Meaning of South African Rock Paintings written by Lenka Tucek and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-09-26 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Art - Painting, grade: 1 (A), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (Faculty of Arts), course: Course: South African Archaeology and Ethno-history (SA 301), 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: One aspect of the wealth of material evidence left behind by the early people are the pictures in south african rock art. They occur in paintings and engravings. In 1996 the total number of sites in South Africa was estimated to be a little over 10 000 but the actual number of sites is significantly undercounted. It is still not known exactly when the artists started to make rock art, although new techniques of radiocarbon dating, using very small samples of paint, open the possibility of an absolute chronology. The oldest example of rock art in Africa was found in 1969 by Eric Wendt in the southern region of Namibia at a site called Apollo 11. After various datings, mainly with the radiocarbon method, archaeologists concluded that the rock art tradition in southern africa is at least 27 500 years old. In South Africa the oldest dated rock art is an engraving in the Northern Cape which was found on a small slab of dolomite at the Wonderwerk Cave south of Kuruman. It has a radiocarbon date of c.10 200 BP. Rock paintings are found in the mountainous parts of the subcontinent in abundant rock shelters and shallow overhangs, while engravings were generally made on the interior plateau of South Africa. There are about 1600 paintings in South Africa. In this assignment I will focus on the meaning of rock paintings, on the specific symbols and their importance for the early people. In Chapter Two, I provide a short introduction about the artists and their methods. Then I will explain the three important approaches to reveal the meaning of rock art described by Lewis - Williams and give some examples of misinterpretations of rock paintings. Chapter Three deals with the spiritual world and shamanism in the society
Author : J. David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521244602
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (446 download)
Download or read book The Rock Art of Southern Africa written by J. David Lewis-Williams and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1983-11-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruno David
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190607351
Total Pages : 1185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art written by Bruno David and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 1185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews. Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases examples of such research from around the world and across a broad range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional researcher alike.
Author : Elijah Dumisani Katsetse
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (951 download)
Download or read book A Conservation Model for Rock Art in South Africa written by Elijah Dumisani Katsetse and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas A. Dowson
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Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contested Images written by Thomas A. Dowson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the work of a number of scholars in the field of rock art studies who engage the so-called trance hypothesis in terms of their own empirical data and theoretical interests.
Author : Siyakha Mguni
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1868147770
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Termites of the Gods written by Siyakha Mguni and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siyakha Mguni’s personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as formlings. In Termites of the Gods, Siyakha Mguni narrates his personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as 'formlings'. Formlings are a painting category found across the southern African region, including South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, with its densest concentration in the Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe. Generations of archaeologists and anthropologists have wrestled with the meaning of this painting theme in San cosmology without reaching consensus or a plausible explanation. Drawing on San ethnography published over the past 150 years, Mguni argues that formlings are, in fact, representations of flying termites and their underground nests, and are associated with botantical subjects and a range of larger animals considered by the San to have great power and spiritual significance. This book fills a gap in rock art studies around the interpretation and meaning of formlings. It offers an innovative methodological approach for understanding subject matter in San rock art that is not easily recognisable, and will be an invaluable reference book to students and scholars in rock art studies and archaeology.
Author : Benjamin Smith
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1868148076
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Working with Rock Art written by Benjamin Smith and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. This volume contains contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion, and it therefore makes a significant contribution to the discipline. The volume aims to promote the sharing of new experiences between leading researchers in the field. While the geographic focus is truly global, there is a dominant north-south axis with strong representation from researchers in southern Africa and northern Europe, two leading centres for new approaches in rock art research. Working with Rock Art opens up a long overdue dialogue about shared experiences between these two centres, and a number of the chapters are the first published results of new collaborative research. Since this volume covers the recording, interpretation and presentation of rock art, it will attract a wide audience of researchers, heritage managers and students, as well as anyone interested in the field of rock art studies.
Author : Edward B. Eastwood
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864866790
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Capturing the Spoor written by Edward B. Eastwood and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind to discuss the rock art of cultural groups other than the San. It gives the rock art of South Africa a wider context and greater depth than has a hitherto been apparent.
Author : David Mendel Witelson
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789692458
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book A Painted Ridge: Rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa written by David Mendel Witelson and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a suite of spatially close San (Bushmen) rock painting sites in the Maclear District of South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. As a suite, the sites are remarkable because, despite their proximity to each other, they share patterns of similarity and simultaneous difference.
Author : David S. Whitley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742502567
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)
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.
Download or read book Zambia's Ancient Rock Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
