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
Design and Connectivity: The Case of Atlantic Rock Art
Joana Valdez-Tullett
2019
Fliegende Hirsche und Sonnengötter
Johannes Reckel, Merle Schatz
2022
Human records on Karakorum Highway
Ahmad Hasan Dani
1983
Hällristningar Kville härad i Bohuslän, Bottna socken
Åke Fredsjö, Jarl Nordbladh, Jan Rosvall
1975
Incised markings on stone
J. Collingwood Bruce
1869
Indian rock art and its global context
Robert G Bednarik, Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty
1997
Klamath basin petroglyphs
B.K Swartz
1963
Mary Virginia Carson
Marise McDermott, Witte Memorial Museum, Wittliff Collections
2024
Methods of art history tested against prehistory: session C74. Spiral and circular forms: the most common rock art in the world?: session C81. European cave art: session C85. Euro-Mediterranean rock art studies: session S02. Global state of the art: sessi
Didier Martens, Jane Kolber, John Clegg, Marc Groenen
2010
Methods of recording and present status of knowledge concerning petroglyphs in California
Franklin Fenenga
1949
Miscellania: Theory, Rock Art and Heritage
Cláudia Fidalgo, Luiz Oosterbeek
2014
Northern hunter/fisher/gatherer European rock-art and Spanish Levantine rock paintings
George Nash
2008
Painted stories
Peter Breunig
2023
Petroglyphs of California and adjoining states
Julian Haynes Steward
1929
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
Plans and photographs of Stonehenge and of Turusachan in the island of Lewis
Henry James
1867
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