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
Urknall der Kunst
Martin Faass, Jessica Schmidt
2023German
Valcamonica
Emmanuel Anati
1980Italian
Wenus epoki lodowej
Rudolf Drössler
1983Polish
Working with Rock Art
BENJAMIN W. SMITH, DAVID MORRIS, KNUT HELSKOG
2012
Wspomnienia z przeszłości
Jerzy Cepik
1983Polish
Yin Shan yan hua
Shanlin Ge
1986Chinese
A Chorological Study of North European Rock Art
Mats P. Malmer
1981
African pictograms
Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica
1997
Art on the rocks of Southern Africa
Dennis N. Lee, Herbert C. Woodhouse
1970
Australia's greatest rock art
Grahame L Walsh
1990
Catalogue of the rock art collection of the Frobenius Institute
Pavel Červíček
1976
Columbia Plateau rock art
James D Keyser, Frank Crosser, Roz Malin, Cathy Poetschat, Larry King, Oregon Archaeological Society, United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region
1998
Crystals in the sky : an intellectual odyssey involving Chumash astronomy, cosmology, and rock art
Travis Hudson, Ernest Underhay
1978
Dunhuang sees great changes
Xiuqing Yang
2006Chinese
Excavations at Ormaig
Clare Ellis
2007
Four hundred centuries of cave art
Abbé Henri Breuil
1952
Lascaux
Annette Laming-Emperaire, Eleanore Frances Armstrong
1959
Monumental art of Northern Europe from the Stone Age
Gustaf Hallström
1938
Monumental art of northern Sweden from the Stone Age
Gustaf Hallström
1960
Murujuga Marni: Rock Art of the Macropod Hunters and Mollusc Harvesters
Ken Mulvaney
2015
PAAR
2010
Palaeolithic cave art
Peter J. Ucko, Andrée Rosenfeld
1967
Prehistoric art
T. G. E. Powell
1966
Prehistoric art of the western Mediterranean and the Sahara
Luis Pericot García, Eduardo Ripoll Perelló
1964