| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 184 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
1. Integrating rock art with archaeology : symbolic culture as archaeology / Angus R. Quinlan -- 2. Stories as old as the rocks : rock art and myth / Melvin Brown and Alanah Woody -- 3. The mountain Maidu homeland : Native and anthropological interpretations of cultural identiy / Helen Valborg and Farrell Cunningham -- 4. Toward a gender-inclusive view of rock art in the northern Great Basin / William J. Cannon and Alanah Woody -- 5. Grinding stone and pecking rock : rock art of the High Basins, Spanish Springs, Nevada / Signa W. Pendegraft -- 6. A regional settlement system approach to petroglyphs : application to the Owyhee Uplands, southeastern Oregon / Myrtle P. Shock -- 7. The study of a rock art site in southeastern Oregon / Keo Boreson -- 8. Contexts in the analysis of rock art : settlement and rock art in the Warner Valley area, Oregon / William J. Cannon and Mary F. Ricks -- 9. Petroglyph dating on the Massacre Bench / Eric W. Ritter, Alanah Woody, and Alan Watchman -- 10. Rock art as an artifact of religion and ritual : the archaeological construction of rock art's past and present social contexts / Angus R. Quinlan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-178) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Great Basin -- Antiquities.
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Rock paintings -- Great Basin
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Petroglyphs -- Great Basin
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Antiquities
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Indians of North America -- Antiquities
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Petroglyphs
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Rock paintings
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| SUBJECT |
Great Basin -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97006068
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| Subject |
United States -- Great Basin
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Quinlan, Angus R., 1968-
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| LC no. |
2006023848 |
| ISBN |
9780874177183 |
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0874177189 |
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0874176964 |
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9780874176964 |
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