The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art : Looking at Pictures in Place
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521524245
ISBN-13
9780521524247
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 2004
Print length
420 Pages
Weight
924 grams
Dimensions
24.50 x 17.40 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Art of indigenous peoplesHistory of art: pre-historyPrehistoric archaeologyAnthropology
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A companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Cambridge, 1998), this book attempts to understand rock-art images and how ancient peoples experienced them, by viewing them within their surrounding landscapes. Packed with illustrations, it draws together well-known scholars from key regions of the world for rock-art and for rock-art research.
A companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Cambridge, 1998), this new collection edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash addresses the most important component around the rock-art panel - its landscape. The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art draws together the work of many well-known scholars from key regions of the world for rock-art and for rock-art research. It provides a unique, broad and varied insight into the arrangement, location, and structure of rock-art and its place within the landscapes of ancient worlds as ancient people experienced them. Packed with illustrations, as befits a book about images, The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art offers a visual as well as a literary key to the understanding of this most lovely and alluring of archaeological traces.
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