Robert G. Gunn, Cecilia Myers, Bruno David, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Benjamin Smith, Damien Finch, Augustine Unghangho, Ian Waina, Leigh Douglas, Pauline Heaney...
Robert G. Gunn, Cecilia Myers, Bruno David, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Benjamin Smith, Damien Finch, Augustine Unghangho, Ian Waina, Leigh Douglas, Pauline Heaney...
This monograph offers the first detailed study of Pundawar Manbur, a major Kimberley rock art site with 600+ paintings and engravings. It reveals complex superimpositions, reuse practices, and imagery spanning thousands of years, highlighting its cu...Loe edasi...
A richly illustrated history of petroglyphs in Central Asia, the Caucasus, Scandinavia and the Alps, Arabia and the Sahara Rock art is mankinds oldest artistic expression. The first creation of rock carvings (petroglyphs) and rock paintin...Loe edasi...
In April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that served as a catalyst for the appropriation of prehistoric rock art in postwar abstract painting. With the title Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa, it disp...Loe edasi...
Fish imagery and symbolism in Mesopotamian art can be examined from various perspectives. It may be studied in a historical context, exploring the stylistic evolution through different periods; as a social history, analysing how societal conditions...Loe edasi...
Sally Barnden, Gordon McMullan, Kate Retford, Kirsten Tambling
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198923152)
Explores the extent to which members of the royal family have appropriated the creative legacy of Shakespeare, from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, in order to shore up royal and national ideologies and to assert the legitima...Loe edasi...
The monograph is devoted to the material culture of the Early Bronze Age of The Mil-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. At the same time, the settlements and grave monuments in these areas and the natural geographical conditions of this land were studied...Loe edasi...
Over 40,000 years ago modern Homo sapiens spread across the European continent. Archaeological finds attributed to these early human beings were produced on the Swabian Jura in Southwest Germany, especially in the caves of the Ach and Lone valleys. S...Loe edasi...
The Lone and Ach valleys on the Swabian Jura, and the surrounding areas, represent a remarkable archaeological landscape. The Lone and Ach valleys on the Swabian Jura, and the surrounding areas, represent a remarkable archaeological landscape...Loe edasi...
Publication of results from the conference on early symbolic culture and the evolution of behavioral modernity, held as part of the Hugo Obermaier Meeting in Heidenheim, Germany. Publication of results from the conferen...Loe edasi...
An overview of different topics covered by the field of archaeoacoustics, which seeks to advance the field through innovative approaches to the study of, for instance, archaeomusicology, neuroacoustics, psychoacoustics, portable and fixed lithophones...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: British Museum Press, ISBN-13: 9780861592258)
First complete publication of one of the most important Iron Age sites in Europe at Snettisham, Norfolk. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in Iron Age culture For over 60 years, spectacular discoveries have been made on...Loe edasi...
Despite vanishing from Earth 66 million years ago, dinosaurs are one of our favorite cultural fascinations. In this history of paleoart, Zoë Lescaze and Walton Ford scour the globe for dinosaur paintings, drawings, prints, mosaics, and murals. This...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: McDonald Institute Monographs, ISBN-13: 9781913344221)
The sanctuary at Kavos on Keros was discovered in 1963 in the aftermath of looting in the region of the sanctuary now designated the Special Deposit North. From 2006-2008, excavations in the Special Deposit South (now fully published in Volumes II an...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the Eastern half of Stod, this is the third in a series of five volumes that comprehensively document rock art in Upper Tibet. It examines a panoply of graphic evidence found on stone surfaces, supplying an unprecedented view of the long-...Loe edasi...
Ideas and Images argues that the development of symbols and signs informing scripts, mainly the idea of coding thoughts through symbols and images, has always been uniquely historical. Rock art abuts and occupies long periods of time, from the Meso...Loe edasi...
For speleologists and holidaymakers alike, here is an essential handbook. The first guide to all the decorated Ice Age caves in Europe that are open to the public, fully revised and updated for a third edition, this book covers more than 50 caves in...Loe edasi...
The Bronze Age (1700500 BCE) petroglyphs of southern Scandinavia comprise a unique tradition of rock art in northern Eurasia. Despite a limited repertoire of motifs such as cupmarks, boats, anthropomorphs, zoomorphs, podomorphs and circles, it shows...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Apr-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813069920)
This book explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Pre-Columbian art dating to the fifteenth century, showing how the manuscript’s intricate and colorful imagery conveys complex ideas related to Mesoamerican myths and r...Loe edasi...
The Art of Elam CA. 4200–525 BC offers a view of, and a critical reflection on, the art history of one of the world’s first and least-known civilizations, illuminating a significant chapter of our human past. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Dec-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781636671413)
The book is a first attempt to analyze the complex problems of Romanian etymology in English. Romanian is a Romance language, but it also inherits an old Pre-Romance layer represented by both Indo-European and Pre-Indo-European elements such as Gr...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the central and western parts of the region, this is the second in a series of five volumes that comprehensively document rock art in Upper Tibet. It examines a panoply of graphic evidence found on stone surfaces, supplying an unprecedent...Loe edasi...
In April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that served as a catalyst for the appropriation of prehistoric rock art in postwar abstract painting. With the title Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa, it displa...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the eastern part of the region, this is the first in a series of five volumes that comprehensively document rock art in Upper Tibet. It examines a panoply of graphic evidence found on stone surfaces, supplying an unprecedented view of the...Loe edasi...
This book is the first to identify an interpretive path through Paleolithic cave art that can provide plausible meaning to the animal figures in the Lascaux cave in France. The artwork was created during a period described as the Creative Explosion,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Two Windmills Limited, ISBN-13: 9781801056403)
Add sparkle to your sticker books with beautiful jewel art!Decorate 8 foiled cards with shiny, colourful jewel stickers and become a jewel art superstar in no time. Simply take the sheet of special stickers and create pawsome patterns on the adorable...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-May-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781433168857)
As the heritage of ancient culture, rock art is distributed at each continent around the world, from which the ancestors recorded their social and economic life via this method to manifest their understanding and recognition on the world. ...Loe edasi...
This two-volume set—which includes the text in volume 1 and the concordance, tables, figures, and plates in volume 2—presents the finds from the Greek-American excavation of a Late Bronze Age town that was carried out between 1989 and 201...Loe edasi...
This book introduces readers to the belief and symbolism present in the prehistoric art of the Bering Strait region. For about a century, the archaeology of this area has mainly focused on material, economic, and technological perspectives, leaving...Loe edasi...
This book provides an updated account of European Rock Art studies demonstrating the wide range of methods and theories used in today’s research. Pictures from the Bronze Age are numerous, vivid and complex. There is no other prehistoric peri...Loe edasi...
This volume analyses monuments in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia from the early Bronze Age through the Turkic Period. It focuses on the cultural significance of location and viewshed and on the monuments’ indications of individual intention and coll...Loe edasi...
The result of forty years of study, this book offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman Britain, the brooch. Used basically to hold outer clothing together, it was always on view and was usually decorative. Based on t...Loe edasi...
The 27 papers in this volume harken to the themes that Jeffrey Soles has influenced during his illustrious career in Aegean Bronze Age archaeology: ancestry, burial customs, religion, trade, jewelry, the development of the Minoan settlement of Mochlo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jan-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Golden House Publications, ISBN-13: 9781906137823)
This volume of the CAA Berlin series contains the first part of the shabti collections from Berlin, those of the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom from the materials stone, faience, and pottery.Text in German....Loe edasi...
It may be true, as Paul Valery said, that the painter takes his body with him, but it is almost certain that artists leave some of their bodies in their art. This book studies the embodied intentionality inscribed in the works of the artists of the...Loe edasi...
Ancient Egyptian artifacts from a shrine of the Minoan-Greek goddess Eileithyia show relations between the Aegean and Egyptian regions. Scarabs represent official Egyptian-Cretan affairs, especially those dating from the reign of Amenophis III to the...Loe edasi...
The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture, and craftwork. This publication uses a new system of organizing the pottery by petrography-sorting it by materials and workshop...Loe edasi...
In 1962, after secret looting, a shrine for the Greek Goddess Eileithyia was discovered by the police in south-central Crete at the modern town of Tsoutsouros (ancient Inatos). The cave dedicated to this ancient goddess of childbirth and motherhood...Loe edasi...
Focusing on stunning paintings and engravings from around the world, 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 hu...Loe edasi...
Primitive art is inseparable from primitive consciousness and can be correctly understood only with the correct socio-cultural context. This book examines the ancient art of Siberia as part of the integral whole of ancient so...Loe edasi...
Have you ever found art museums intimidating and art history a baffling mix of periods, names, and styles? Annie Labatt’s Art History 101 aims to remove this inaccessibility issue in the art world by breaking the history of art down into...Loe edasi...
These vibrant Melanges bring together texts by colleagues and friends to celebrate the life and work of an exceptional scientist, Jean-Loic Le Quellec. Through the diversity of its contributions, this book bears witness to the transdisciplinarity, ri...Loe edasi...
This book is the second volume of the Bangudae Petroglyphs in Ulsan which was first published in 2014. This is the fourth publication put forth by the Ulsan Institute of Cultural Properties and is part of the Korean petroglyph analysis report series....Loe edasi...
Presented to Stan Beckensall on his 90th birthday, this diverse and stimulating collection of papers celebrates his crucial contribution to rock art studies, and also looks to the future. It should be of value to students of prehistoric Britain and I...Loe edasi...
Ancient Art Revisited develops new perspectives on ancient art by weaving together diverse strands within archaeology and art history, exploring it through recent developments in archaeological theory. ...Loe edasi...
Signalling and Performance: Ancient Rock Art in Britain and Ireland presents a state of the art survey of the ancient rock art of Britain and Ireland, bringing together new discoveries and new interpretations. Ancient rock art offers unique insights...Loe edasi...
