Anthropomorphic images in rock art paintings and rock carvings. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Terence Meaden and Herman Bender.
• Editors: Meaden, George Terence; Bender, Herman
• Contents: Continental Europe and Britain and Ireland ; Chapter 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 ; Chapter 2: Hieros Gamos—ἱερός γάμος—Symbol of Fertility and Orphism in Thracian Ideology - Stavros D. Kiotsekoglou ; Chapter 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 ; Chapter 4: The Grotta Palmieri of Lettopalena (Chieti, Abruzzo): Preliminary Presentation of a New Site with Rock Paintings - Tomaso Di Fraia ; Chapter 5: Representations of the Human Figure in the Anfratto Palmerini on Monte La Queglia: Engravings, Paintings, Symbols - Guido Palmerini ; Chapter 6: A Unique Example of Engraved Transfigurative Rock Art at Avebury Cove in Wessex, Southern England - Terence Meaden ; Chapter 7: Anthropomorphic Images in High Lunigiana, Massa Carrara, Italy - Angelina Magnotta Chapter 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 ; Chapter 9: Gobekli Tepe, Anatolia, Turkey – the Womb of the Mother Goddess - Anu Nagappa Chapter 10: Revelatory Style Art: The Human-plant Engagement Revealed by the Jiangjunya Petroglyph, China - Feng Qu ; Australia ; Chapter 11: Anthropomorphic Engraved Images in South-East Queensland, Australia - Marisa GiorgiChapter 12: Anthropomorphic Images in Australian Rock Art through Time and Space - Mike Donaldson ; Africa ; Chapter 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 ; Chapter 14: What Can Be Learnt from Body Postures and Gestures of Anthropomorphic Figures in Petroglyphs of the Southwest USA - Carol Patterson ; Chapter 15: Some Select Vulva Rock Petroglyphs and Forms in North America - Herman E. Bender ; Chapter 16: Manitou or Spirit Stones and Their Meanings, Personification and Link to the Native American Cultural Landscape in North America - Herman E. Bender ; Chapter 17: Multi-Layered Meanings in Anthropomorphic Figures in Yokuts and Western Mono Rock Art, California - Mary A. Gorden ; Chapter 18: The Thunderbird in Native American Rock Art - Herman E. Bender ; South America ; Chapter 19: Anthropomorphic Representations in the Cave Paintings Located in the Archaeological Region of Seridó in Brazil - Nathalia Nogueira and Daniela Cisneiros ; Chapter 20: Anthropomorphic Figures at the Alto De La Guitarra Site, Moche Valley, Peru - María Susana Barrau and Daniel Castillo Benítez ; Chapter 21: Exceptional Anthropomorphic Figures at the Monte Calvario Site, Poro Poro, Cajamarca, Peru - Daniel Castillo Benítez and María Susana Barrau Index.
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 709.0113; Anthropomorphism in art; Rock paintings; Petroglyphs
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789693584
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2020).
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