Author: Centro camuno di studi preistoriciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camonica Valley (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
BCSP
Author: Centro camuno di studi preistoriciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camonica Valley (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
BCSP
Author: Centro camuno di studi preistoriciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camonica Valley (Italy)
Languages : it
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Nature of Shamanism
Author: Michael Ripinsky-NaxonPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438417411
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Ripinsky-Naxon explores the core and essence of shamanism by looking at its ritual, mythology, symbolism, and the dynamics of its cultural process. In dealing with the basic elements of shamanism, the author discusses the shamanistic experience and enlightenment, the inner personal crisis, and the many aspects entailed in the role of the shaman.
European Landscapes of Rock-Art
Author: Christopher ChippindalePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134517335
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Rock-art - the ancient images which still scatter the rocky landscapes of Europe - is a singular kind of archaeological evidence. Fixed in place, it does not move about as artefacts as trade objects do. Enigmatic in its meaning, it uniquely offers a direct record of how prehistoric Europeans saw and envisioned their own worlds. European Landscapes of Rock-Art provides a number of case studies, covering arange of European locations including Ireland, Italy, Scandinavia, Scotland and Spain, which collectively address the chronology and geography of rock-art as well as providing an essential series of methodologies for future debate. Each author provides a synthesis that focuses on landscape as an essential part of rock-art construction. From the paintings and carved images of prehistoric Scandinavia to Second World War grafitti on the German Reichstag, this volume looks beyond the art to the society that made it. The papers in this volume also challenge the traditional views of how rock-art is recorded. Throughout, there is an emphasis on informal and informed methodologies. The authors skilfully discuss subjectivity and its relationship with landscape since personal experience, from prehistoric times to the present day, plays an essential role in the interpretation of art itself. The emphasis is on location, on the intentionality of the artist, and on the needs of the audience. This exciting volume is a crucial addition to rock-art literature and landscape archaeology. It will provide new material for a lively and greatly debated subject and as such will be essential for academics, non-academics and commentators of rock art in general.
Round Heads
Author: Jitka SoukopovaPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443845795
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
The Central Sahara is considered the greatest “museum” of rock art in the world, containing several thousand prehistoric and recent images. The oldest paintings, called Round Heads, originated during a humid phase in the 10th millennium before present and they were created by dark-skinned hunter-gatherers living in the Algerian and Libyan mountains. Rock shelters show mainly anthropomorphic figures with body paintings and other embellishments testifying ancient rituals and ceremonies. Only two animal species – antelope and mouflon – appear to be as important as men and women; mixed with them on the same walls, these animals had a fundamental place in the ideology of the period. Since the discovery by Europeans in the 19th century, research in the Sahara has been scarce due to the difficult working conditions and to the problematic politics associated with national permissions. The rock art and the archaeology have always been treated as separated disciplines and only rarely were the paintings associated with a material culture. They have been described and classified but not interpreted because it was considered unachievable. Using interdisciplinary studies, this book approaches the previously neglected fields of the study of Saharan rock art, and it proposes new ways to research the art and the societies that created it.
Post-Palaeolithic Filiform Rock Art in Western Europe
Author: Fernando CoimbraPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784913685
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
This session focuses on Filiform rock art which appears as a spontaneous technique, more simple and immediate than pecking, good either for autonomous strands of expression, or for sketches and first drafts regarding works of painting or pecking.
Anthropology without Informants
Author: L. G. FreemanPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 0870819704
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
L.G. Freeman is a major scholar of Old World Paleolithic prehistory and a self-described “behavioral paleoanthropologist.” Anthropology without Informants is a collection of previously published papers by this preeminent archaeologist, representing a cross section of his contributions to Old Work Paleolithic prehistory and archaeological theory. A socio-cultural anthropologist who became a behavioral paleoanthropologist late in his career, Freeman took a unique approach, employing statistical or mathematical techniques in his analysis of archaeological data. All the papers in this collection blend theoretical statements with the archeological facts they are intended to help the reader understand. Although he taught at the University of Chicago for the span of his 40-year career, Freeman is not well-known among Anglophone scholars, because his primary fieldwork and publishing occurred in Cantabrian, Spain. However, he has been a major player in Paleolithic prehistory, and this volume will introduce his work to more American Archaeologists. This collection brings the work of an expert scholar, to a broad audience, and will be of interest to archaeologists, their students, and lay readers interested in the Paleolithic era.
ANNUAL EGYPTOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 1976.
Author: Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004045224
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Physical Anthropology of European Populations
Author: Ilse SchwidetzkyPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110820978
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology
Author: Peter MitchellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199569886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1077
Book Description
This Handbook provides a comprehensive synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. It includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates and situates the subject's contemporary practice.