Tradition 30 of 33
Rock art, geoglyphs, and ancient symbols
Petroglyphs, pictographs, rock and cave art, geoglyphs, the Nazca lines, megalithic art, and interpretations of ancient symbolic landscapes.
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- Books
- 574
- Earliest
- 1543
- to 2026
- Read free
- 21%
- 123 with public full text
- With covers
- 35%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match535
- Metadata match23
- Query match16
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Petroglyphs178
- Antiquities122
- Rock paintings77
- Archaeology73
- Rock art63
- Social Sciences61
- Anthropology54
- Art52
- Archeology51
- History49
- Felsbild46
- Physical Sciences42
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies41
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology38
- Sztuka naskalna35
- Earth and Planetary Sciences34
- Geography34
- Art, Prehistoric31
- Bergkunst30
- Geology29
- Paleontology29
- Art pariétal27
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies26
- Pétroglyphes25
Top languages
- English300 · 52%
- German61 · 11%
- French56 · 10%
- Russian19 · 3%
- Spanish18 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Emmanuel Anati7 books
- Henri Lhote6 books
- Paul G. Bahn5 in this tradition7 books
- A. P. Okladnikov5 books
- George Nash5 books
- Harald Pager5 books
- Jo McDonald5 books
- Christopher Chippindale4 in this tradition6 books
- Andrzej Rozwadowski4 in this tradition5 books
- Benjamin Smith4 books
- Bruno David4 books
- José Manuel Rey García4 books
574 books
Papers on California archaeology: 21-22
Berkeley. Archeological Survey University of California
1953
Places, people and ancestors
Tore Sætersdal
2004
Plains Indian Rock Art
James D. Keyser, Michael A. Klassen
2016
Prehistoric art
Paule Marie Grand
1967
Prehistoric rock pictures in Europe and Africa, from material in the archives of the Research Institute for the Morphology of Civilization
Museum of Modern Art
1937
Proceedings of the third International Conference on the Archaeology of the fourth Nile Cataract, University of Cologne, 13-14 July 2006
Hans Peter Wotzka
2012
Rock Art Science: The Scientific Study of Palaeoart
Robert G. Bednarik
2007
Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe
Richard Bradley
2002
Rock Art and the Wild Mind
Ingrid Fuglestvedt
2017
Rock Art of the Caribbean
Michele H. Hayward, Lesley-Gail Atkinson, Michael A. Cinquino, Gérard Richard
2013
Rock art conservation in Australia
Andrée Rosenfeld
1985
Rock art of Latin America & the Caribbean
Conseil international des monuments et des sites
2006
Rock drawings of the Micmac Indians
Marion Robertson
1973
Sacred art of the Algonkians
Joan M. Vastokas
1973
Southwest Indian pictographs and petroglyphs. --
Polly Schaafsma
1965
Studien zur Urgeschichte Namibias
Jürgen Richter
1991
The Rock Art of Norway
Trond Klungseth Lødøen, Gro Mandt
2010
The White Shaman Mural
Carolyn Boyd
2016
The art of the shaman : rock art of California
David S. Whitley
2000
The pit-and-groove petroglyph style in southern California
Rick Minor
1975
The rock paintings of Tassili
Jean-Dominique Lajoux
1963
The rock paintings of the Upper Brandberg. Part III, Southern Gorges
Harald Pager
1993
The rock paintings of the Upper Brandberg. Part IV, Umuab and Karoab Gorges
Harald Pager
1998
The rock paintings of the Upper Brandberg. Part V, Naib Gorge (A) and the Northwest
Harald Pager
2000