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
- 530
- Earliest
- 1670
- to 2026
- Read free
- 17%
- 88 with public full text
- With covers
- 31%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match492
- Metadata match22
- 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
- Petroglyphs166
- Antiquities115
- Rock paintings77
- Archaeology72
- Rock art62
- 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
- English289 · 55%
- German61 · 12%
- French26 · 5%
- Russian19 · 4%
- 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
530 books
Petroglyphs of Oregon
Luther Sheeleigh Cressman
1937
Pictographs and petroglyphs of the high western plains
E. B. Renaud
1936
Pictures in Transformation: Rock Art Research between Central Asia and the Subcontinent
Laurianne Bruneau, Luca Maria Olivieri, Marco Ferrandi
2010
Pre-columbian Maya graffiti
Jarosław Źrałka
2014
Prehistoric painting
Alan Houghton Broderick
1948
Preliminary report on petroglyphs of the Republic of Panama, 1951 [to] 1960
Neville A. Harte
1960
Rock Art Archaeological Park, Campo Lameiro, Pontevedra
José Manuel Rey García
2011
Rock Art and Regional Identity
Jamie Hampson
2016
Rock art and its legacy in myth and art
Christoph Baumer, Therese Weber
2025
Rock art as visual ecology
Ariz.) Ecology of Rock Art Symposium (1994 Flagstaff
1997
Rock art in Kerala
Yasodhar Mathpal
1998
Rock art in Lahul
Vijay Kumar Bodh
2025
Rock art in Oman
R. Jackli
1980
Rock art in the Cochiti Reservoir District
Polly Schaafsma
1975
Rock art in the old world
Michel Lorblanchet
1992
Rock art of South India
Bansi Lal Malla, Dileep Kumar Sant, Praveen C K
2024
Rock art of the Jebel Uweinat (Libyan Sahara)
Francis : van Noten
1978
Rock art research in the digital era
International Rock Art Congress, Miguel Carrero-Pazos, Rebecca Döhl, Julian Jansen Van Rensburg, Paolo Medici, Alia Vázquez-Martínez
2022
Rock carvings in Hong Kong
William Meacham
1976
Rock-drawings from Saudi Arabia
Henry Field
1970
Rock-paintings and other antiquities of prehistoric and later times
Manoranjan Rai Sahib Ghosh
1932
San Cristobal petroglyphs
Agnes C Sims
1949
Speaking stones
Ahtushi Deshpande, Ashwati Franklin, Taira Deshpande, Nihir Parmar
2024
Spirits and stones
Maria Magdalena Kośko, Andrzej Rozwadowski
2002