Early rock art of the American west : the geometric enigma

1. Verfasser: Malotki, Ekkehart , [VerfasserIn]
Dissanayake, Ellen , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018].
Umfang/Format: xiv, 298 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Schlagworte:
Indians of North America > West (U.S.) > Antiquities.
Petroglyphs > West (U.S.).
Picture-writing > West (U.S.)
Rock paintings > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > Antiquities.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake
  • The concept of artification / Ellen Dissanayake
  • Terminology, chronology, and dating of North American paleomarks / Ekkehart Malotki
  • Cupules as an archetypal artification / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake
  • Ancestral minds and the spectrum of symbol / Ellen Dissanayake
  • Sites and styles of the western archaic tradition rock art complex / Ekkehart Malotki
  • Origins and functions of abstract-geometric markings / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake
  • Why did our ancestors artify? / Ellen Dissanayake
  • Conclusion: the geometric enigma / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake.

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