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
- 398
- Earliest
- 1848
- to 2026
- Read free
- 7%
- 27 with public full text
- With covers
- 26%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match378
- Metadata match20
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
- Petroglyphs135
- Antiquities102
- Archaeology70
- Rock paintings64
- Rock art61
- Social Sciences61
- Anthropology53
- Archeology51
- Art48
- History48
- Felsbild46
- Physical Sciences42
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies41
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology38
- Sztuka naskalna35
- Earth and Planetary Sciences34
- Geography34
- Bergkunst30
- Geology29
- Paleontology28
- Art pariétal27
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies26
- Art, Prehistoric26
- Pétroglyphes25
Top languages
- English238 · 60%
- German22 · 6%
- French20 · 5%
- Russian17 · 4%
- Spanish16 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- Emmanuel Anati7 books
- Paul G. Bahn5 in this tradition7 books
- A. P. Okladnikov5 books
- Henri Lhote5 books
- Jo McDonald5 books
- Christopher Chippindale4 in this tradition6 books
- Andrzej Rozwadowski4 in this tradition5 books
- Benjamin Smith4 books
- George Nash4 books
- Harald Pager4 books
- José Manuel Rey García4 books
- Polly Schaafsma4 books
398 books
Archaeologies of Consciousness
Gyrus
2007
European Landscapes of Rock-Art
George Nash, Christopher Chippindale
2002
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Mapping Sacred Geometry to Quantum Coherence Using GUFT: Because have you seen people these days!?
Thomas Prislac, AI Echo
2026
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Archeological explorations in northeastern Arizona, by Alfred Vincent Kidder and Samuel J. Guernsey. [Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 65.]
Samuel James Guernsey, Alfred Vincent Kidder, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution. Bureau Of Ethnology, United States Congress. House, United States. Government Publishing Office
1918
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Le plus beau désert du monde
Philippe Diolé
1955
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Roccia dei Giochi, Roccia di Giove. Un masso inciso tra preistoria ed età moderna a Usseglio
Daniela Berta, Andrea Arcà, Francesco Rubat Borel
2016Italian
An Investigation of Three Megalithic Quoits in Cornwall
Andy M. Jones, James Gossip
2025
Rock Art and Sacred Landscapes
Donna L. Gillette, Mavis Greer, Michele H. Hayward, William Breen Murray
2013
The Archaeology of Shamanism
Neil Price, Neil S Price
2001
The rock art of Africa
A. R. Willcox
1984
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Dreamtime Superhighway: Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange
Jo McDonald
2011
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Megaliths of the World
Jérôme Magail, Yury Esin, Jamiyan-Ombo Gantulga, Fabrice Monna, Tanguy Rolland, Anne-Caroline Allard
2022
Crow Indian Rock Art
Timothy P McCleary
2016
Prehistoric rock art in Scandinavia
Courtney Nimura
2015
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The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe
2015
Prehistoric Imagery and Landscapes: Rock art in Stjørdal, Trøndelag, Norway
Kalle Sognnes
2001
Madhya Pradesh
Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak, Jean Clottes
2021
Bigfoot to Mothman
Margo DeMello
2024
A companion to rock art
Jo McDonald, Peter Marius Veth
2012
Absalom's outback
John Mabey
1981
Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society
Helaine Silverman
2002
Archaeologies of art
Dánae Fiore, Sally K. May
2008
Art rupestre en Ennedi =
Gérard Bailloud
1997
Arts of the South Seas
Ralph Linton
1946