Powerful Pictures Rock Art Research Histories around the World

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Powerful Pictures Rock Art Research Histories around the World

Author	: Jamie Hampson
File Size	: 53,8 Mb
Publisher	: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Language	: English
Release Date	: 29 December 2022
ISBN	: 9781803273891
Pages	: 183 pages

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Powerful Pictures Rock Art Research Histories around the World by Jamie Hampson Book PDF Summary

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.

Powerful Pictures Rock Art Research Histories around the World by Jamie Hampson,Sam Challis,Joakim Goldhahn

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Cognitive Archaeology is a relatively young though fast growing discipline. The intellectual heart of cognitive archaeology is archaeology, the discipline that investigates the only direct evidence of the actions and decisions of prehistoric people. Its theories and methods are an eclectic mix of psychological, neuroscientific, paleoneurological, philosophical, anthropological, ethnographic, comparative,

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Rock Art Studies News of the World VI by Paul G. Bahn,Natalie Franklin,Matthias Strecker

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From the high plains of Canada to caves in the southeastern United States, images etched into and painted on stone by ancient Native Americans have aroused in observers the desire to understand their origins and meanings. Rock paintings and engravings can be found in nearly every state and province, and

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While there has always been a large public interest in ancient pictures painted or carved on stone, the archaeological study of rock art is in its infancy. But intensive amounts of research has revolutionized this field in the past decade. New methods of dating and analysis help to pinpoint the

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