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
Wadi Sura : the cave of beasts
Rudolph Kuper
2013
Working with Rock Art: Recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge
Benjamin Smith, Knut Helskog, David Morris
2012
The rock paintings of the Upper Brandberg. Part II, Hungorob Gorge
Harald Pager
1993
Giving the past a future
James Dodd, Ellen Meijer
2018
The anatomy of deep time
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
2020
Nine mile canyon
Jerry D. Spangler
2012
Amulets, effigies, fetishes, and charms
Edward J. Lenik
2016
Early rock art and tribal art in India
Somnath Chakraverty
2018
Prehistoric Rock Art
Paul G. Bahn
2010
Rock Art in the Landscapes of Motion: Proceedings of a session of the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018 in Valcamonica, Italy
Frank Förster, Paweł L. Polkowski
2022
Archival theory, chronology and interpretation of rock art in the Western Cape, South Africa
Siyakha Mguni
2016
Memory landscapes of the Inka carved outcrops
Jessica Joyce Christie
2016
From Funeral Monuments to Household Pottery: Current advances in Funnel Beaker Culture (TRB/TBK) research: Proceedings of the Borger Meetings 2009, The Netherlands
J. A. Bakker, S. B. C. Bloo, M.K. Dütting
2013
The Upper Paleolithic rock art of Portugal in its Iberian context
André Tomás Santos, Maria de Jesus Sanches, Joana Teixeira
2015
World Rock Art: The Primordial Language
Emmanuel Anati
2010
The dream on the rock
Fulvio Gosso, Peter. Webster
2013
Bergkunstens gestalter, typer og stiler
Heidrun M.V Stebergløkken
2016Norwegian (Bokmål)
Djara : zur mittelholozänen Besiedlungsgeschichte zwischen Niltal und Oasen (Abu-Muharik-Plateau, Ägypten)
Karin Kindermann
2010German
El arte parietal en monumentos megalíticos del noroeste ibérico : valoración, diagnóstico, conservación
Carrera Ramírez, Fernando Carrera Ramírez
2011Spanish
Gemeinschaft-Gleichheit-Mobilität : Felsbilder im Brandberg, Namibia, und ihre Bedeutung
Tilman Lenssen-Erz
2001German
Helleristningene på Skatval
Geir Grønnesby
1998Norwegian (Bokmål)
Helleristninger i Onsøy
David Vogt, Eirik Irgens Johnsen, Hällristningar i gränsbygd
2000Norwegian (Bokmål)
Käräjäkivet No. 03:Mystery on the Desert
María Reiche
2019
L' arte rupestre dell'Eritrea
Giulio Calegari
1999Italian