As an ancient cultural relic, rock art is distributed all over the world. The ancestors recorded their social life and economic activities through rock art to express their understanding and knowledge of the world. Therefore, the study of rock art allows us to understand the early history and culture, religious beliefs and other aspects of the mankind. Rock art have become a direct basis for reproducing human history and thought. Since ancient times, the Yinshan region has become a vast arena fo...
Easy Field Guide to Southwestern Petroglyphs
by Sharon Nelson and Richard Nelson
Prehistoric Rock Art of County Durham, Swaledale and Wensleydale
by Stan Beckensall and Tim Laurie
Senator Coxon stumbled into the field of petroglyphs study while serving as an emissary for the United States and ended up devoting his life to pursuing and understanding the purposes and mental process behind the creation of these symbols. In addition to providing insight into the archaeological field's perception of petroglyphs at that time, this compilation of one man's research on the purpose rather than the translation of petroglyphs begins in the American southwest and spreads across both...
Pottery Production and Supply at Bronze Age Kolonna, Aegina
by Walter Gauss and Evangelina Kiriatzi
Development-led Archaeology in North-West Europe
Many countries in northern Europe have seen a huge expansion in development-led archaeology over the past few decades. Legislation, frameworks for heritage management and codes of practice have developed along similar but different lines. The Valetta Convention has had considerable impact on spatial planning and new legislation on archaeological heritage management within EC countries as well as on the funding, nature and distribution of archaeological fieldwork. For the first time these 12...
Prähistorische Pfahlbauten im Alpenraum (Reflexe der immateriellen und materiellen Kultur)
Die 2011 von der UNESCO anerkannte serielle Welterbestätte vereinigt Fundorte in Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien, Österreich, der Schweiz und Slowenien. Die Pfahlbauten dokumentieren die Lebensverhältnisse jungsteinzeitlicher und metallzeitlicher Siedelgemeinschaften zwischen 5000 und 600 v. Chr. Obertägig nicht sichtbar, liegen sie verborgen in den Ufer- und Flachwasserbereichen der Alpenrandseen oder unter Moorbedeckung. Unter Luftabschluss haben sich organische Materialien wie Holz, Textil u...
Halsringe (Bestimmungsbuch Archaologie)
by Angelika Abegg-Wigg and Ronald Heynowski
Neck rings are among the most magnificent genres among archeological finds. They are made of bronze, silver, or gold, elaborately produced, and richly ornamented. In prehistoric times, they were worn by selected men, women, and children, represented the status and dignity of the wearer, and distinguished the individual within his or her society. In Central Europe, there are neck rings starting from the beginning of the Bronze Age around 2200 BCE. They are found up to the Migration Period arou...
Jomon Potteries in Idojiri Vol.1; B/W Edition
by Idojiri Archaeological Musuem
Dickeyville Grotto (Folk Art and Artists (Hardcover))
by Susan A Niles
Eclectic Collecting
The collection of Burmese art housed at the Denison Museum in Granville, Ohio, includes more than 1,500 objects dating from the late first millennium A.D., through the twentieth century. While particularly strong on textiles originating with minority groups in Burma, it also includes Buddha images, lacquer objects, works on paper, manuscripts, wood carvings, and pieces made from bronze, silver, and ivory. The core holdings were acquired by Baptist missionaries, United States government employees...
Passionate Visions of the American South
With essays by William Ferris, Jane Livingston, Susan Larsen, and Lowery Stokes Sims. A sumptuous collection surveying a half century of self-taught art by William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Howard Finster, Clementine Hunter, O.W. "Pappy" Kitchens, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Elijah Pierce, Nellie Mae Rowe, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, "Son" Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, and others.
Rock Art of the Sahara
by Henri J. Hugot, Maximilien Bruggmann, and Henri J. Hugor
Background to Beakers. Inquiries into the Regional Cultural Background to the Bell Beaker Complex
Background to Beakers is the result of an inspiring session at the yearly conference of European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague in September 2010. The conference brought together thirteen speakers on the subject Beakers in Transition. Together we explored the background to the Bell beaker complex in different regions, departing from the idea that migration is not the comprehensive solution to the adoption of bell Beakers. Therefore we asked the participants to discuss how in their...
Why, beginning in the late 1960s, did expressive objects made bypoor people come to be regarded as twentieth-century folk art, increasingly sought after by the middle class and the wealthy?Julia Ardery explores that question through the life story ofKentucky woodcarver Edgar Tolson (1904-1984) and the evolvingpublic reception of his poplar dolls. The Temptation presents a vivid chronicle of folk art'sascendancy in the late twentieth century, enlivened by the voicesand opinions of diverse partici...
Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops: From Past to Present presents a comprehensive analysis of the carved rocks the Inka created in the Andean highlands during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It provides an overview of Inka history, a detailed analysis of the techniques and styles of carving, and five comprehensive case studies. It opens in the Inka capital, Cusco, one of the two locations where the geometric style of Inka carving was authored by the ninth ruler Pachakuti...
Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe: Signing the Land
by Richard Bradley
Spirited Journeys (Reference Publication in Literature)
by Lynne Adele
Is There a British Chalcolithic?
The Chalcolithic, the phase in prehistory when the important technical development of adding tin to copper to produce bronze had not yet taken place, is not a term generally used by British prehistorians and whether there is even a definable phase is debated. Is there a British Chalcolithic? brings together many leading authorities in 20 papers that address this question. Papers are grouped under several headings. Definitions, Issues and Debate considers whether appropriate criteria app...
Groups of burial mounds may be among the most tangible and visible remains of Europe's prehistoric past. Yet, not much is known on how "barrow landscapes" came into being . This book deals with that topic, by presenting the results of archaeological research carried out on a group of just two barrows that crown a small hilltop near the Echoput ("echo-well") in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. In 2007, archaeologists of the Ancestral Mounds project of Leiden University carried out an excavati...