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
The prehistoric rock art of Morocco
Susan Searight
2001
World Rock Art (Conservation and Cultural Heritage Series)
Jean Clottes
2002
Yiwara
Richard A. Gould
1969
À la découverte des fresques du Tassili
Henri Lhote
1958French
Grabados Rupestres en la Mancha Centro : Documentación y Estudio de un Patrimonio Desconocido : Rock Engravings in la Mancha Center
Ramiro Rodero Rocío, Víctor Manuel López-Menchero Bendicho, Ángel Marchante Ortega
2018Spanish
Ancient Americans
Schobinger, Juan. Schobinger, Carys. Evans-Corrales
2016
Rock Art and Museum / Art Rupestre et Musée
Dario Seglie, George Dimitriadis, Guillermo Muñoz, International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
2009
Monumental archaeology in the Mongolian Altai
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
2023
Body and image
Christopher Y. Tilley, Wayne Bennett
2008
Changing pictures
Joakim. Goldhahn, Ingrid. Fuglestvedt, Andrew Jones
2010
Discovering South Carolina's Rock Art
Tommy Charles
2010
Making pictures in stone
Edward J. Lenik
2009
The lives of prehistoric monuments in iron age, roman and medieval Europe
Marta Díaz-Guardamino, Leonardo García Sanjuán, David Wheatley
2015
Die Bilderstrasse Ostafrikas
Ludwig Kohl-Larsen, Margit Kohl-Larsen
1958German
Archaeological Oddities
Kenneth L. Feder
2019
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Arnamagnæanske Haandskrifter i Fotolitografiske Aftryk
1877Danish
Australia Felix
Ian Clarke Manning Clark
1987
Bildstenar
Erik Nylén, Jan Peder Lamm
2003Swedish
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Bruchstücke des aegyptischen Todtenbuches
1850NOT
Cuevas prehistóricas de Asturias
Miguel Ángel de Blas Cortina
1996Spanish
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Der Krieg von 1870/71
1872German
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Die Frithiofs-Sage
1893German
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Gedanken zur Deutung der Hieroglyphen des ersten Buches Mosis
1855NOT
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Hieroglyphen oder Magisches Gedenkbuch des ehrlichen Michels und seines Vetters Hans. 1, Prost's Neujahr
1849German