An Annotated Petroglyph and Pictograph Bibliography of Nevada and the Great Basin
Author: Alvin R. McLane
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9780945920977
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Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9780945920977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Angus R. Quinlan
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2007-01-24
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0874177189
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rock art is one of humankind’s most ancient forms of artistic expression, and one of its most enigmatic. For centuries, scholars and other observers have struggled to interpret the meaning of the mysterious figures incised or painted on natural rocks and to understand their role in the lives of their long-vanished creators. The Great Basin of the American West is especially rich in rock art, but until recently North American archaeologists have largely ignored these most visible monuments left by early Native Americans and have given little attention to the terrain surrounding them. In Great Basin Rock Art, twelve respected rock art researchers examine a number of significant sites from the dual perspectives of settlement archaeology and contemporary Native American interpretations of the role of rock art in their cultural past. The authors demonstrate how modern archaeological methodology and interpretations are providing a rich physical and cultural context for these ancient and hitherto puzzling artifacts. They offer exciting new insights into the lives of North America’s first inhabitants. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the petroglyphs of the American West and in the history of the Great Basin and its original peoples.
Author: Robert Fleming Heizer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published:
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alex Patterson
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781555660918
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A key to the interpretation of rock art of the American Southwest, providing descriptions and illustrations of rock art symbols, along with their ascribed meanings, and including general and specific information on rock art sites.
Author: William L. Fox
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →""The Sign" considers the language and the metaphors we continue to place around and over the void, revealing the Great Basin as a vast palimpsest where the neonlined boulevards of Las Vegas overlay and interplay with millennia-old petroglyphs and pictographs." "The Void, the Grid, & the Sign traverses the knowns and the unknowns of the Great Basin and gives us insight into the fanciful and fearsome projections ascribed to its vast spaces."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Archaeology
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 140
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