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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Archaeopress Archaeology
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Archaeopress archaeology.
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| Contents |
Chapter 3: An Image Description Method to Access Palaeolithic Art: Discovering a Visual Narrative of Gender Relations in the Pictorial Material of Chauvet Cave -- Gernot Grube -- Chapter 4: The Grotta Palmieri of Lettopalena (Chieti, Abruzzo): Preliminary Presentation of a New Site with Rock Paintings -- Tomaso Di Fraia -- Chapter 5: Representations of the Human Figure in the Anfratto Palmerini on Monte La Queglia: Engravings, Paintings, Symbols -- Guido Palmerini -- Chapter 6: A Unique Example of Engraved Transfigurative Rock Art at Avebury Cove in Wessex, Southern England -- Terence Meaden |
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Chapter 7: Anthropomorphic Images in High Lunigiana, Massa Carrara, Italy -- Angelina Magnotta -- Chapter 8: A Rock Art Site on the Avebury Hills in Wessex Whose Images Express a Perception of Death and Possibly a Mystical Link to the Solstice Sunsets -- Terence Meaden -- Asia -- Chapter 9: Gobekli Tepe, Anatolia, Turkey -- the Womb of the Mother Goddess -- Anu Nagappa -- Chapter 10: Revelatory Style Art: The Human-plant Engagement Revealed by the Jiangjunya Petroglyph, China -- Feng Qu -- Australia -- Chapter 11: Anthropomorphic Engraved Images in South-East Queensland, Australia -- Marisa Giorgi |
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Chapter 12: Anthropomorphic Images in Australian Rock Art through Time and Space -- Mike Donaldson -- Africa -- Chapter 13: The Postures of Childbirth in the Bovidian Women in the Rock Art of Tassili N'ajjer, Central Sahara of Algeria -- Hassiba Safrioun -- Louiza Belkhiri -- North America -- Chapter 14: What Can Be Learnt from Body Postures and Gestures of Anthropomorphic Figures in Petroglyphs of the Southwest USA -- Carol Patterson -- Chapter 15: Some Select Vulva Rock Petroglyphs and Forms in North America -- Herman E. Bender |
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Chapter 16: Manitou or Spirit Stones and Their Meanings, Personification and Link to the Native American Cultural Landscape in North America -- Herman E. Bender -- Chapter 17: Multi-Layered Meanings in Anthropomorphic Figures in Yokuts and Western Mono Rock Art, California -- Mary A. Gorden -- Chapter 18: The Thunderbird in Native American Rock Art -- Herman Bender -- South America -- Chapter 19: Anthropomorphic Representations in the Cave Paintings Located in the Archaeological Region of Seridó in Brazil -- Nathalia Nogueira and Daniela Cisneiros |
| Summary |
In rock art, humanlike images appear widely throughout the ages. The artworks discussed in this book range from paintings, engravings or scratchings on cave walls and rock shelters, images pecked into rocky surfaces or upon standing stones, and major sacred sites, in which exists the possibility of recovering the meanings intended by the artists. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anthropomorphism in art.
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Anthropomorphism in art. |
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Rock paintings.
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Rock paintings. |
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Petroglyphs.
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Petroglyphs. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Meaden, George Terence, editor.
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Bender, Herman, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1789693578 9781789693577 (OCoLC)1140407883 |
| ISBN |
9781789693584 (electronic book) |
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1789693586 (electronic book) |
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1789693578 |
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9781789693577 |
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