Archaeologies of Art: Time, Place, and Identity
ISBN: 9781598742657 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce cultural identity. Examples stretch from the Paleolithic to contemporary world and include rock art, body art, and portable arts. Ethnographic studies of contemporary art production and use, such as among contemporary Aboriginal groups, are...
This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art st...
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Rock Art of the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Content, comparisons, dating and significance
ISBN: 9781407305844 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The objective of this research is to advance the understanding of the Egyptian Eastern Desert region petroglyphs by means of three steps: 1) To order and analyse the available data; 2) To compare the Eastern Desert petroglyphs with those of neighbouring regions and 3) To determine what the Eastern Desert petroglyphs can tell us about the people responsible for them. The study then moves towards an interpretation of the petroglyphs in terms of what they can tell us about the origins and development of Egyptian society. The objective of this research is to advance the understanding of the Egyptian Eastern Desert region petroglyphs by means of three steps: 1) To ord... |
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252,37 zł |
Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah
ISBN: 9781607810117 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fremont is a culture (ca. 300 1300 A.D.) first defined by archaeologist Noel Morss in 1928 based on characteristics unique to the area. Initially thought to be a simple socio-political system, recent reassessments of the Fremont assume a more complex society. This volume places Fremont rock art studies in this contemporary context. Author Steven Simms offers an innovative model of Fremont society, politics, and worldview using the principles of analogy and current archaeological evidence. Simms takes readers on a trip back in time by describing what a typical Fremont hamlet or residential... Fremont is a culture (ca. 300 1300 A.D.) first defined by archaeologist Noel Morss in 1928 based on characteristics unique to the area. Initially t... |
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Prehistoric Art: Signs, Symbols, Myth, Ideology
ISBN: 9781407306056 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Papers from Session C26, 'Prehistoric Art: Signs, Symbols, Myth, Ideology', from the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Un nuevo conjunto de arte rupestre esquematico en el tramo final del rio Ibor (Caceres, Espana) (Ma A. Aldecoa Quintana, A. Dominguez Garcia); 2) Towards a Pastoral Neolithic Society: Khanguet- El-Hadjar, Constantinois, Algeria (Idir Amara, Colette Roubet); 3) Les figures humaines sexuees segmentees et isolees: perennite et ruptures (Raphaelle Bourrillon); 3) Les Manifestations Esthetiques du Mesolithique (Florence Bouvry); 4) Death and...
Papers from Session C26, 'Prehistoric Art: Signs, Symbols, Myth, Ideology', from the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1...
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285,58 zł |
Grabados rupestres de la fachada atlántica europea y africana / Rock Carvings of the European and African Atlantic Façade
ISBN: 9781407306193 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 1) Introduction: rock carvings of the European and African Atlantic facade; 2) Living stones: decoration and ritual in 4th and 3rd millennium bc Ireland (Muiris O'sullivan); 3) Nuevas reflexiones sobre el arte rupestre de Inglaterra, Gales y Escocia (Richard Bradley); 4. L'art grave a l'air libre durant la prehistoire et la protohistoire en Bretagne (France) (Michel le Goffic); 5) Un nuevo milenio para el arte rupestre Galaico (Antonio de la Pena Santos); 6) A context for Galician rock art (Ramon Fabregas Valcarce); 7) Cien anos de investigacion de arte rupestre al aire libre en la Meseta...
1) Introduction: rock carvings of the European and African Atlantic facade; 2) Living stones: decoration and ritual in 4th and 3rd millennium bc Irela...
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507,35 zł |
Prehistoric Rock Art: Polemics and Progress
ISBN: 9780521140874 / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prehistoric rock art is the markings paintings, engravings, or pecked images left on rocks or cave walls by ancient peoples. In this book, Paul G. Bahn provides a richly illustrated overview of prehistoric rock art and cave art from around the world. Summarizing the recent advances in our understanding of this extraordinary visual record, he discusses new discoveries, new approaches to recording and interpretation, and current problems in conservation. Bahn focuses in particular on current issues in the interpretation of rock art, notably the shamanic interpretation that has been influential...
Prehistoric rock art is the markings paintings, engravings, or pecked images left on rocks or cave walls by ancient peoples. In this book, Paul G. Bah...
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Prehistoric Rock Art: Polemics and Progress
ISBN: 9780521192781 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prehistoric rock art is the markings paintings, engravings, or pecked images left on rocks or cave walls by ancient peoples. In this book, Paul G. Bahn provides a richly illustrated overview of prehistoric rock art and cave art from around the world. Summarizing the recent advances in our understanding of this extraordinary visual record, he discusses new discoveries, new approaches to recording and interpretation, and current problems in conservation. Bahn focuses in particular on current issues in the interpretation of rock art, notably the shamanic interpretation that has been influential...
Prehistoric rock art is the markings paintings, engravings, or pecked images left on rocks or cave walls by ancient peoples. In this book, Paul G. Bah...
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449,21 zł |
Introduction to Rock Art Research
ISBN: 9781598746105 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2005, this brief introduction to methods of studying rock art has become the standard text for courses on this topic. It was also selected as a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book in 2005. Internationally-known rock art researcher David Whitley takes the reader through the various processes needed to document, interpret, and preserve this fragile category of artifact. Using examples from around the globe, he offers a comprehensive guide to rock art studies of value to archaeologists and art historians, their students, and rock art aficionados. The second edition of...
First published in 2005, this brief introduction to methods of studying rock art has become the standard text for courses on this topic. It was also s...
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Introduction to Rock Art Research
ISBN: 9781598746112 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2005, this brief introduction to methods of studying rock art has become the standard text for courses on this topic. It was also selected as a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book in 2005. Internationally-known rock art researcher David Whitley takes the reader through the various processes needed to document, interpret, and preserve this fragile category of artifact. Using examples from around the globe, he offers a comprehensive guide to rock art studies of value to archaeologists and art historians, their students, and rock art aficionados. The second edition of...
First published in 2005, this brief introduction to methods of studying rock art has become the standard text for courses on this topic. It was also s...
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The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art
ISBN: 9780292726260 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shamanism--the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge--has been an important part of life for indigenous societies throughout the Americas from prehistoric times until the present. Much has been written about shamanism in both scholarly and popular literature, but few authors have linked it to another significant visual realm--art. In this pioneering study, Rebecca R. Stone considers how deep familiarity with, and profound respect for, the extra-ordinary visionary experiences of shamanism profoundly affected... Shamanism--the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge--has been ... |
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Rocks, Riddles and Mysteries: Folk Art, Inscriptions and Other Stories in Stone
ISBN: 9780983082712 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,71 zł |
Rock Art Made in Translation: Framing Images from and of the Landscape
ISBN: 9781431400805 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the hands of Pippa Skotnes and her team who produced the beautiful and acclaimed Jacana books on the San and their rock art, Claim to the Country and Unconquerable Spirit, comes a smaller but equally handsome volume on rock art copies made by the great German ethnologist, Leo Frobenius.
From the hands of Pippa Skotnes and her team who produced the beautiful and acclaimed Jacana books on the San and their rock art, Claim to the Country...
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100,68 zł |
The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi
ISBN: 9781781169124 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The collected works of Julius Csotonyi, one of the world's most high profile and talented contemporary paleoartists. Csotonyi has considerable academic expertise that contributes to his stunning dynamic art. Csotonyi represents the natural world photorealistically and has been influenced by natural history illustrators such as Peter Zallinger, Doug Henderson and Greg Paul. He uses bold patterns and colors to paint the prehistoric world both with traditional media as well as modern digital techniques.
The collected works of Julius Csotonyi, one of the world's most high profile and talented contemporary paleoartists. Csotonyi has considerable academi...
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128,42 zł |
Spondylus in Prehistory: New data and approaches. Contributions to the archaeology of shell technologies
ISBN: 9781407307749 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers a broad and up-to-date discussion of the Spondylus -phenomenon- in prehistory, in diverse archaeological contexts from Europe and two areas of the New World. It brings together new archaeological data, methodological advances, and current interpretations for the study of this important material. Further understanding comes from consideration of other shell technologies, ancient and traditional. The core of the book consists of papers that were first presented in a special session on -Spondylus in European Prehistory: New Data and Approaches - A Session on the Archaeology of...
This volume offers a broad and up-to-date discussion of the Spondylus -phenomenon- in prehistory, in diverse archaeological contexts from Europe and t...
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Images from the Underworld: Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting
ISBN: 9780292726529 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world's few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions that have helped to revolutionize our understanding of ancient Maya art and ritual. In this book, Andrea Stone takes a comprehensive look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to the Colonial period. After surveying Mesoamerican cave and rock painting sites and discussing all twenty-five known painted caves in the Maya... In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of ... |
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A Guide to the Rock Art of the Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe
ISBN: 9780797424555 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Guide to the Rock Art of the Matopo Hills Zimbabwe is an essential book for anyone visiting these hills of western Zimbabwe and for those with an interest in rock art. Copies of the paintings by Janet Duff bring the art to life. It discusses the lifestyle and beliefs of the Stone Age hunter-gathers who painted on the rocks, as well as considering the art itself and its interpretation. It concludes with a description of the major sites in the Matopop hills.
A Guide to the Rock Art of the Matopo Hills Zimbabwe is an essential book for anyone visiting these hills of western Zimbabwe and for those with an in...
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179,00 zł |
Prehistoric Imagery and Landscapes: Rock art in Stjørdal, Trøndelag, Norway
ISBN: 9781841712796 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A detailed study of the Bronze Age rock art found in the Stjordal region of central Norway. Based on fieldwork carried out in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Sognnes analyses the imagery of the art and the physical and social landscape in which it exists. Through identifying various spatial and temporal patterns, three inter-connected symbolic systems are identified.
A detailed study of the Bronze Age rock art found in the Stjordal region of central Norway. Based on fieldwork carried out in the late 1980s and early...
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351,99 zł |
Excavations at Flixton Park Quarry: Volume 1
ISBN: 9780956874726 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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151,42 zł |
Dahnmon's Fantastic Dream
ISBN: 9781624070730 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, Ad 900-1600
ISBN: 9781902937618 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. Focusing on the archaeology of its first 700 years, this volume explores how 'small worlds' both reflected and impacted the fundamental pan-European watersheds of the Middle Ages.
Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. Focus...
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282,65 zł |