The Archaeology of Rock-Art
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521576192
- ISBN10 0521576199
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 373
- Any Edició 1998
- Encuadernació Tela
Matèries
Arqueologia-prehistòriaThe Archaeology of Rock-Art
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
Pictures, painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces, are amongst our loveliest relics from prehistory. This pioneering set of essays goes beyond guesses as to what the pictures mean, instead exploring how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times: in short, rock-art as archaeology. Sometimes contact-period records offer some direct insight about indigenous meaning, so we can learn in that informed way. More often, we have no direct record, and instead have to use formal methods to learn from the evidence of the pictures themselves. The book's nineteen chapters range wide in space and time, from the Palaeolithic of Europe to nineteenth-century Australia.