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
- 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
Legacy on stone
Sally J. Cole
1990
Murujuga
José Antonio González Zarandona
2020
Mysteries of the ancient world
Toni Eugene
2005
Nasca
Anthony F. Aveni
2000
Of stones and spirits
Joan Schneider
2000
Petroglyphs
Sabra Moore
1998
Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Utah
M.D. Castleton Kenneth B.
1994
Pictographs & petroglyphs of the Oregon country
J. Malcolm Loring
1982
Prehistoric pictures and American modernism
Elke Seibert
2025
Prehistoric rock pictures in Europe and Africa
The Museum of Modern Arts
1937
Prehistoric suns
Steve Mulligan
2020
Rock Art Tarot
Jerry Roelen
1996
Rock art and prehistory
Paul G. Bahn, Andrée Rosenfeld
1991
Rock art in New Mexico
Polly Schaafsma
1972
Rock art of Easter Island
Georgia Lee
1992
Rock art of the American Indian
Campbell Grant
1967
Rock art of the Oregon country
James D. Keyser, George R. Poetschat
2010
Rock art studies
AURA Congress
1993
Rock carvings in Norway
Anders Hagen
1965
Rock drawings of the Coso Range, Inyo County, California
Campbell Grant
1968
Rocks of Ages
Joshua Schmidt, Natan Uriely, David Eisenberg-Degen, Sara Levi Sacerdotti, George Nash
2022
Spirit of the rocks
Brenda Sullivan
1995
The geoglyphs of Palpa, Peru
Karsten Lambers
2006
The landscape of words
Robert E. Harrist
2008