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
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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
Prehistoric cave paintings
Max Raphaël
1945
Prehistoric rock art of the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland
E. W. Goodall, C. K. Cooke, J. Desmond Clark, Roger Summers
1959
Publications
Pontus Hellström, Hans Langballe, Torgny Säve-Söderbergh
1970
Religion on the Rocks: Hohokam Rock Art, Ritual Practice, and Social Transformation
Aaron M. Wright
2014
Rock Art and Memory in the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge
Leslie F Zubieta
2022
Rock Art as Social Representation
Joakim Goldhahn
2010
Rock Art of Easter Island: Symbols of Power, Prayers to the Gods
Georgia Lee
1992
Rock Art of the Lower Pecos
Carolyn Boyd
2003
Rock art studies : news of the world.
Paul G. Bahn, Natalia R. Franklin, Matthias Strecker
1997
Spirit mediumship and seance performance among the Ga of southern Ghana
Dale Kelley Fitzgerald
1976
Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art in the Black Hills Country
Linea Sundstrom
2004
Symbols through time : interpreting the rock art of Central Asia
Andrzej Rozwadowski
2004
The Cave of Altamira and other caves with paintings in the Province of Santander
J Carballo
1961
The Eland's People: New Perspectives in the Rock Art of the Maloti-Drakensberg Bushmen
P. Mitchell, Benjamin Smith
2009
The rock paintings of the Upper Brandberg
Harald Pager
1989
rock paintings of Williston
Martin K Hykkerud
2006
Acts of the International Symposium on Rock Art. Lectures at Hanko 6-12 Aug., 1972. Ed.: Sverre Marstrander. [Illustr.]
Sverre Marstrander
1978
Altamira y la prehistoria de la tecnologia quimica
Erich Pietsch
1964Spanish
Altamira, cumbre del arte prehistorico
Martín Almagro Basch, Antonio Beltrán Martínez, José Camón Aznar
1968Spanish
Altmexikanische Felsbilder
Walter Krickeberg
1960German
Ancient images on stone
Frank Bock, JoAnne Van Tilburg
1983
Bizony z Altamiry
Barbara Stopczyk
1972Polish
Bol'šaâ boârskaâ pisanica
Marianna Ataširovna Dèvlet
1976Russian
De rotstekeningen in de Sahara
Henri Lhote
1959Dutch