Anthropomorphic images in rock art paintings and rock carvings. (2020)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Anthropomorphic images in rock art paintings and rock carvings. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Anthropomorphic images in rock art paintings and rock carvings
- 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 EngravedContinental 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. … (more)
- 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.
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