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.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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
Boulder monuments of Saskatchewan
Geoffrey Ian Brace
2004
Earth Figures of the Lower Colorado and Gila River Deserts
Boma Johnson
1986
Fissures
Celia Daniels, Cynthia Pederson
1993
Geoglyphs
Paul G. Bahn
1997
Managing community projects
Gladys Nyasuna-Wanga
2010
Seeing and Knowing
Geoffrey Blundell, Christopher Chippindale, Benjamin Smith
2010
The Carved Rocks on Rombalds Moor
Ilkley Archeology Group
1986
The Nazca lines
Jorge Alvarado Carpio
2005
Úsvit pravěkých lovců
Petr Kostrhun, Václav Soukup, Barbora Půtová, Zdeňka Nerudová
2016
Abwehrhand und Drudenfuss
Franz Wollenik
1982German
Hjul på hällar
Lars Erik Nilsson
2005Swedish
Hällristninger i Gränsebygd
Anne-Sophie Hygen, Lasse Bengtsson
1999Norwegian
Arqueologia da Amazônia ocidental
Denise Pahl Schaan, Alceu Ranzi, Martti Pärssinen
2008Portuguese
Australian aboriginal rock art
Frederick D McCarthy
1958
Corpus petroglyphorum Gallaeciae
Ramón Sobrino Buhigas
1935Latin
GRAVURES RUPESTRES DE LA PROVINCE D ES-SEMARA
Afraa Al-Khatib, Alain Rodrigue, Mostafa Ouachi
2009Arabic
Geoglifos
Denise Pahl Schaan, Alceu Ranzi, Antonia Damasceno Barbosa
2010Portuguese
Giotto
Anna Gattiglia, Maurizio Rossi, Rinaldo Comba
1999Italian
Líneas de Nasca
Eduardo Herrán
2018Spanish
Nanasqa
Zenón Gallegos Ramírez
2011Spanish
Papeles del vacio
Ricardo Wiesse
2005Spanish
Petroglify v gorakh Kulʹzhabasy
K. M. Baĭpakov
2004Russian
Petrohlify Kamʹi︠a︡noï Mohyly
Boris Dmitrievich Mikhaĭlov
2005Ukrainian
Pusharo
Thierry Jamin
2007Spanish