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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents Page -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figure 2.1. The eastern Trans-Pecos (or 'Big Bend') region of west Texas delineated by the Pecos River and state boundary to the north, the Rio Grande to the south, and archaeologically defined cultural areas - the Lower Pecos (east) and Jornada Mogollon -- Figure 2.2. Charles Peabody and Mitre Peak, west Texas. Courtesy of Blackwell Publishing. -- Figure 2.3. Forrest Kirkland's watercolours of the rock art at Meyers Springs, Texas |
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Figure 2.4. Another example of the stunning rock art in west Texas, at Hueco Tanks, c. 20 cm wide. Courtesy of J. McCulloch. -- Figure 3.1. William Henry Holmes (1878) illustration of petroglyph panel at Waterflow, New Mexico. -- Figure 3.2. Kidder and Guernsey (1919) illustrated examples of mountain sheep from different sites in the Kayenta, Arizona, region to show the range of variation of this iconic figure. -- Figure 3.3. Watercolour painting by Ann Axtell Morris of Pictograph Cave in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, circa 1923-1927. (American Museum of Natural History) |
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Figure 3.4. Artist Agnes Sims (1949) created woodcuts illustrating petroglyphs at fourteenth- to seventeenth-century pueblos in the Galisteo Basin near Santa Fe, New Mexico, and compared them to personages that still appear in Hopi and Zuni ceremonies. Sh -- Figure 3.5. Harold S. and Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton noted similarities between petroglyphs at the Willow Springs, Arizona, site and Hopi use of clan signatures on historic legal documents (Colton 1946 -- Colton and Colton 1931). Drawing on the Coltons' wo |
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Figure 4.1. Female figure at the Peterborough Petroglyhs, Ontario. Tracing by Dagmara Zawadzka after Vastokas and Vastokas 1973, plate 13. -- Figure 4.2. Images at the Kennedy Island site in Ontario painted over quartz veins. Photo by Dagmara Zawadzka. -- Figure 4.3. Effigy formations known as Grandmother and Grandfather Rocks near the Mystery Rock Pictograph site on Lake Obabika, Ontario. Photo by Dagmara Zawadzka. -- Figure 4.4. Profile view of the Agawa Bay cliff on Lake Superior, Ontario. Photo by Dagmara Zawadzka |
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Figure 6.1. Carl Georg Brunius (1792-1869) in 1842 after a drawing by Magnus Körner. At the time he was 50 years old. Copyright expired. -- Figure 6.2. Brunius' trailblazing thesis from 1818. Now in Antikvarisk Topografiskt Arkiv in Stockholm, Bruniussamlingen Bd LXVI, published with their kind permission. -- Figure 6.3. Places in northern Europe mentioned in this paper. 1. Northern Bohuslän, 2. Scania, 3. Blekinge, 4. Öland, 5. Tjust. Authors map. -- Figure 6.4. Example of early rock art documentations from northern Europe. Top left, Backa in Brastad in Bohuslän (Brastad 1) by Alfsøn 1627 |
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Focusing on stunning paintings and engravings from around the world, 16 papers interrogate the driving forces behind global rock art research. Many of the motifs featured were created by indigenous hunter-gatherer groups; this book sheds new light on non-Western rituals and worldviews, many of which are threatened or on the point of extinction |
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Rock paintings.
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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1803273895 |
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9781803273891 |
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