Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories around the World Paperback / softback
Edited by Jamie (Senior Lecturer, Department of Humanities, University of Exeter) Hampson, Sam (Head and Senior Researcher, Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersra Challis, Joakim (Holder of Rock Art Australia Ian Potter Kimberley Chair, entre for Rock Art Resear Goldhahn
Paperback / softback
Description
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 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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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:180 pages, 64 figures, 1 table (colour throughout)
- Publisher:Archaeopress
- Publication Date:29/12/2022
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- ISBN:9781803273884
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:180 pages, 64 figures, 1 table (colour throughout)
- Publisher:Archaeopress
- Publication Date:29/12/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781803273884
