ISBN:
9781803273891
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (iv, 174 Seiten)
,
Karten, Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Powerful pictures
DDC:
709.0113
Keywords:
Rock paintings
;
Rock paintings Research
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Rock paintings - Research
;
History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Felsbild
;
Mongolei
;
Sibirien
;
Amerika
;
Australien
;
Afrika
;
Indien
;
Spanien
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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. -- 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) -- 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 -- 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.
Abstract:
"Powerful Pictures interrogates the driving forces behind global rock art research. Many of the rock art motifs featured in the 16 chapters of this book were created by indigenous hunter-gatherer groups, and it sheds new light on non-Western rituals and worldviews, many of which are threatened or on the point of extinction. Stemming from a conference in Val Camonica in northern Italy, the book is arranged by continent, although it tackles how early research in some countries (e.g., Sweden, France, Spain, the USA, Canada, South Africa) influenced the trajectory of archaeological investigations in others (e.g., Australia, India, Mexico, Germany, Mongolia, Russia). All of the contributing authors have vast experience working with rock art and Indigenous communities, many of them holding posts in prestigious university departments around the world. The book will be of particular interest to professional historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, and indeed anyone who is interested in art, symbolism, and the past."--
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