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1 online resource |
| Series |
Archaeopress Archaeology |
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Archaeopress archaeology.
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| Contents |
Préface / Preface ; Nécrologie / Necrology -- Daniel Arsenault ( 1957-2016 ) ; Daniel Arsenault : The scholarly legacy gone but not forgotten ; Dancing in the dark with firelight: the power of shaded paintings in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg and surrounding areas, southeastern Africa -- Aron Mazel ; Contextualising megalithic rock art on Neolithic chambered tombs: A Welsh perspective -- George Nash ; Understanding landscape composition without rock art: A study of panel/canvas behaviour in the Valcamonica, Lombardy, Northern Italy -- George Nash ; Prehistory of central Portugal: brief panoramic of rock art and archaeometry studies -- Sara Garcês, Hugo Gomes, Luiz Oosterbeek, Pierluigi Rosina ; Pleistocene Art at the Beginnings of the Twentieth-First Century: Rethinking the place of Europe in a Globalised Context -- Oscar Moro Abadía and Bryn Tapper ; A multifaceted approach for contextualising the rock art of the Algonquian First Nations in the Canadian Shield -- Daniel Arsenault ; E=mc0, an equation for studying the timeframes of world rock art -- Daniel Arsenault ; Des images dans la pierre. Une exposition virtuelle en héritage -- M. Jean Tanguay ; Geochemical characterization and direct dating of rock art using radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence: the study case of southern Africa and the Canadian Shield -- Adelphine Bonneau and Michel Lamothe ; Rock art and spiritual beliefs among non-literate societies: Astronomical representations, indigenous beliefs and superstition -- Fernando Augusto Coimbra ; Canadian rock paintings: shamanic or sacred? -- Serge Lemaitre ; Northeast Indigenous Iconography from the Canadian subarctic area -- Carole Charette ; Pacific worlds: Evolution of a methodology for documenting place-based cultural heritage -- RDK Herman ; On The Limitations Of The Notion of Prehistoric 'Art': The Case of The Cucuteni-Trypillia Culture of Eastern Europe From Neo-Chalcolithic -- Florence Bouvry |
| Summary |
Prof. Daniel Arsenault, a leading exponent of Canadian Shield rock art, sadly passed away in 2016. This book contains 14 thought-provoking chapters dealing with Daniel's first love--the archaeology of artistic endeavour. It provides the reader with new ideas about the interpretation and dating of rock art, ethnography, heritage and material culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 17, 2021) |
| Subject |
Arsenault, Daniel.
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Petroglyphs.
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Rock paintings.
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rock paintings.
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rock engravings.
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Petroglyphs
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Rock paintings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Charette, Carole, editor
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Mazel, Aron D., editor
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Nash, George, editor
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Arsenault, Daniel, honouree
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| ISBN |
9781789696905 |
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1789696909 |
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