Symbolism in rock art

Körperschaft: International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences Lisbon)
International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
Weitere Verfasser: Coimbra, Fernando
Dubal, Léo, 1940-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2008.
Umfang/Format: vi, 62 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Schriftenreihe: BAR international series ; 1793
Proceedings of the XV World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006), v. 25, Session WS 34 v. 25, session WS 34
ISBN: 9781407302812
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 9 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Fernando Coimbra and Léo Dubal.
  • Faceless anthropomorphic symbols: the shift from men to gods / Léo Dubal.
  • The pentagram in rock art: some interpretive possibilities / Fernando Augusto Coimbra.
  • A contribution to the understanding of spirals and lozenges in the rock art of Neolithic Britain and Ireland / G. Terence Meaden.
  • The bull horn symbolism in Dionysus cult as coming out from the prehistoric rock art iconography / George Dimitriadis.
  • Footprint & handprint symbols: having or being? / Léo Dubal.
  • Cupmarks and triangles in British Neolithic art with particular attention to three triangular portable stones from Avebury's eastern hills, each with a cupmark at the apex / G. Terence Meaden.
  • On the symbolism of net patterned and ruled rectangles from the Neolithic to the Iron Age / Adolfo Zavaroni.
  • Open air rock art in the Ceira and Alva River valleys: some symbols / Nuno Miguel C. Ribeiro C.
  • Mount Pindo in Galicia and the prehistoric petroglyphs / José Luis Galovart Carrera.