A Guide to Rock Art Sites

A Guide to Rock Art Sites

Author: David S. Whitley

Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780878423323

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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


La Rumorosa Rock Art Along the Border

La Rumorosa Rock Art Along the Border

Author: Donald F. Liponi

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781618501561

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A photographic and professional archaeologic survey of the La Rumorosa rock art style. Nearly all of the half, full page and double page photographs have never been published previously. The text is contributed by regional archaeologists who add context to the images.


The Art of the Shaman

The Art of the Shaman

Author: David S. Whitley

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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Whitley, an archaeologist specializing in the study of prehistoric art and religion, interprets the symbolism of California's ancient rock art, demonstrating that these pictographs were not created simply for artistic expression, but were deliberately intended to represent a relatively few number of specific messages. Color photographs depict such things as vision questing, sexuality, the mythic past, life crises, altered states of consciousness, and more.


Native California

Native California

Author: Dolan H. Eargle, Jr.

Publisher: Trees Company Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0937401110

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This lavishly illustrated book is the only complete and contemporary introductory guide to all the Native peoples in California. Arranged by geographical area and by language groups, Native California includes reservations, rancherias, federally recognized tribes without lands, unrecognized tribes and peoples with out-of-state origins. History, maps, interviews, overviews, essays, informational appendices. copyright 2008


The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art

The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art

Author: George Nash

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-04

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780521524247

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A companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Cambridge 1998), this new collection edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash addresses the most important component around the rock-art panel - its landscape. The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art draws together the work of many well-known scholars from key regions of the world for rock-art and for rock-art research. It provides a unique, broad and varied insight into the arrangement, location, and structure of rock-art and its place within the landscapes of ancient worlds as ancient people experienced them. Packed with illustrations, as befits a book about images, The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art offers a visual as well as a literary key to the understanding of this most lovely and alluring of archaeological traces.


Introduction to Rock Art Research

Introduction to Rock Art Research

Author: David Whitley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1315425998

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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.


The Archaeology of Rock-Art

The Archaeology of Rock-Art

Author: Christopher Chippindale

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780521576192

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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.