The archaeology of rock-art

Gegnir Icelandic union-catalog record

25 cm; An archaeology of rock-art through informed methods and formal methods -- Finding rain in the desert: landscape, gender and far western North American rock-art -- Towards a mindscape of landscape: rock-art as expression of world-understanding -- Icon and narrative in transition: contact-period rock-art at Writing-On-Stone, southern Alberta, Canada -- Rain in Bushman belief, politics and history: the rock-art of rain-making in the south-eastern mountains, southern Africa -- The many ways of dating Arnheim Land rock-art, north Australia -- The 'Three Cs': fresh avenues towards European Palaeolithic art -- Daggers drawn: depictions of Bronza Age weapons in Atlantic Europe -- Symbols in a changing world: rock-art and the transition from hunting to farming in mid Norway -- Pacific rock-art and cultural genesis: a multivariate exploration -- Spatial behavior and learning in the prehistoric environment of the Colorado River drainage (south-eastern Utah), western North America; Dewey classification: 709.0113; Includes bibliographical references and index; myndir; Publication place: Cambridge; The tale of the chameleon and the platypus: limited and likely choices in making pictures -- Pictographic evidence of peyotism in the lower Pecos, Texas archaic -- Modelling change in the contact art of the south-eastern San, southern Africa -- Ethnography and method in southern African rock-art research -- changing art in a changing society: the hunters' rock-art of western Norway -- Central Asian petroglyphs -- Shelter rock-art in the Sydney basin -- Making sense of obscure pictures from our own history; xviii, 373 bls