Author: Ekkehart Malotki
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029574362X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE The earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety. Why did they precede representational marks? What is known about their origins and functions? Why and how did humans begin to make marks, and what does this practice tell us about the early human mind? With some two hundred striking color images and discussions of chronology, dating, sites, and styles, this pioneering investigation of abstract geometrics on stone (as well as bone, ivory, and shell) explores its wide-ranging subject from the perspectives of ethology, evolutionary biology, cognitive archaeology, and the psychology of artmaking. The authors’ unique approach instills a greater respect for a largely unknown and underappreciated form of paleoart, suggesting that before humans became Homo symbolicus or even Homo religiosus, they were mark-makers - Homo aestheticus.
Author: Polly Schaafsma
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826309136
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The comprehensive book on Indian petroglyphs in the Southwest.
Author: Polly Schaafsma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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From the Uinta Mountains through the central Canyonlands to the Virgin River, Utah's abundant prehistoric rock art offers glimpses of a lost world
Author: Alex Patterson
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555660918
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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A key to the interpretation of rock art of the American Southwest, providing descriptions and illustrations of rock art symbols, along with their ascribed meanings, and including general and specific information on rock art sites.
Author: Jelle Zeilinga de Boer
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819573752
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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West Rock and East Rock are bold and beautiful features around New Haven, Connecticut. They resemble monumental gateways (or time-tried sentinels) and represent a moment in geologic time when the North American and African continents began to separate and volcanism affected much of Connecticut. The rocks attracted the attention of poets, painters, and naturalists when beliefs rose about the spiritual dimensions of nature in the early 19th century. More than two dozen artists, including Frederick Church, George Durrie, and John Weir, captured their magic and produced an assortment of classic American landscapes. In the same period, the science of geology evolved rapidly, triggered by the controversy between proponents and opponents of biblical explanations for the origin of rocks. Lavishly illustrated, featuring over sixty paintings and prints, this book is a perfect introduction to understanding the relationship of geology and art. It will delight those who appreciate landscape painting, and anyone who has seen the grandeur of East and West Rock.
Author: Conroy Chino
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781583691403
Category : Petroglyphs
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Author: Ekkehart Malotki
Publisher: Kiva Publishing
ISBN: 1885772270
Category : Colorado Plateau
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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An illustrated overview of the rock art of the Colorado Plateau includes 207 color photos, mini-essays for each site, and an introductory essay examining the history of these petroglyphs and pictographs.
Author: Maria Lute
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500286880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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This book is a wonderful introduction to the ancient petroglyphs
Author: Paul G. Bahn
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789699630
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Like previous series entries, this volume covers rock art research and management all over the world over a 5-year period, in this case 2015-19. Contributions once again show the wide variety of approaches that have been taken in different parts of the world and reflect the expansion and diversification of perspectives and research questions.
Author: Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004385371
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis comprises 41 chapters that push for a new way of conducting the study of religion, thereby, transforming the discipline into a genuine science of religion. The recent resurgence of evolutionary approaches on culture and the increasing acknowledgement in the natural and social sciences of culture’s and religion’s evolutionary importance calls for a novel epistemological and theoretical framework for studying these two areas. The chapters explore how a new scholarly synthesis, founded on the triadic space constituted by evolution, cognition, cultural and ecological environment, may develop. Different perspectives and themes relating to this overarching topic are taken up with a main focus on either evolution, cognition, and/or the history of religion.
