| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 322 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) |
| Series |
Archaeopress Archaeology |
|
Archaeopress archaeology.
|
| Contents |
Continental Europe and Britain and Ireland. ch. 1. Fertility Petroglyphs at Drombeg Stone Circle Help Explain Through Hieros Gamos the Calendar Planning Principles of Drombeg and Other Recumbent Stone Circles Including Stonehenge / Terence Meaden ; ch. 2. Hieros Gamos : Symbol of Fertility and Orphism in Thracian Ideology / Stavros D. Kiotsekoglou ; ch. 3. An Image Description Method to Access Palaeolithic Art: Discovering a Visual Narrative of Gender Relations in the Pictorial Material of Chauvet Cave / Gernot Grube ; ch. 4. The Grotta Palmieri of Lettopalena (Chieti, Abruzzo): Preliminary Presentation of a New Site with Rock Paintings / Tomaso Di Fraia ; ch. 5. Representations of the Human Figure in the Anfratto Palmerini on Monte La Queglia: Engravings, Paintings, Symbols / Guido Palmerini ; ch. 6. A Unique Example of Engraved Transfigurative Rock Art at Avebury Cove in Wessex, Southern England / Terence Meaden ; ch. 7. Anthropomorphic Images in High Lunigiana, Massa Carrara, Italy / Angelina Magnotta ; ch. 8. A Rock Art Site on the Avebury Hills in Wessex Whose Images Express a Perception of Death and Possibly a Mystical Link to the Solstice Sunsets / Terence Meaden -- Asia. ch. 9. Gobekli Tepe, Anatolia, Turkey – the Womb of the Mother Goddess / Anu Nagappa ; ch. 10. Revelatory Style Art: The Human-plant Engagement Revealed by the Jiangjunya Petroglyph, China / Feng Qu -- Australia. ch. 11. Anthropomorphic Engraved Images in South-East Queensland, Australia / Marisa Giorgi ; ch. 12. Anthropomorphic Images in Australian Rock Art through Time and Space / Mike Donaldson -- Africa. ch. 13. The Postures of Childbirth in the Bovidian Women in the Rock Art of Tassili N’ajjer, Central Sahara of Algeria / Hassiba Safrioun and Louiza Belkhiri -- North America. ch. 14. What Can Be Learnt from Body Postures and Gestures of Anthropomorphic Figures in Petroglyphs of the Southwest USA / Carol Patterson ; ch. 15. Some Select Vulva Rock Petroglyphs and Forms in North America / Herman E. Bender ; ch. 16. Manitou or Spirit Stones and Their Meanings, Personification and Link to the Native American Cultural Landscape in North America / Herman E. Bender ; ch. 17. Multi-Layered Meanings in Anthropomorphic Figures in Yokuts and Western Mono Rock Art, California / Mary A. Gorden ; ch. 18. The Thunderbird in Native American Rock Art / Herman Bender -- South America. ch. 19. Anthropomorphic Representations in the Cave Paintings Located in the Archaeological Region of Seridó in Brazil / Nathalia Nogueira and Daniela Cisneiros ; ch. 20. Anthropomorphic Figures at the Alto De La Guitarra Site, Moche Valley, Peru / María Susana Barrau and Daniel Castillo Benítez ; ch. 21. Exceptional Anthropomorphic Figures at the Monte Calvario Site, Poro Poro, Cajamarca, Peru / Daniel Castillo Benítez and María Susana Barrau |
| Summary |
In rock art, humanlike images appear widely throughout the ages. The artworks discussed in this book range from paintings, engravings or scratchings on cave walls and rock shelters, images pecked into rocky surfaces or upon standing stones, and major sacred sites, in which exists the possibility of recovering the meanings intended by the artists |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Anthropomorphism in art.
|
|
Rock paintings.
|
|
Petroglyphs.
|
|
rock engravings.
|
|
rock paintings.
|
|
Anthropomorphism in art
|
|
Petroglyphs
|
|
Rock paintings
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Meaden, George Terence, editor.
|
|
Bender, Herman, editor.
|
| ISBN |
9781789693584 |
|
1789693586 |
|
