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Aboriginal rock art
ancient art history
ancient art techniques
ancient cave paintings
ancient civilizations
ancient creativity
ancient figurative art
ancient human expression
ancient societies
ancient symbols
anthropology
archaeological art
archaeological excavations
archaeological interpretation
archaeological sites
archaeologists
archaeology of Africa.
art
art exhibitions
art history
art movements
art museums
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cave art worldwide
cave painting book
cave wall drawings
cultural anthropology
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Fine Art Appreciation Day
French cave paintings
global heritage art
global rock art sites
historical sites
Ice Age art
indigenous rock art
mysterious cave markings
Paleolithic art
petroglyphs and pictographs
pictograph analysis
prehistoric
prehistoric art
prehistoric drawing techniques
prehistoric symbolism
ritual landscape art
rock art
rock art conservation
rock art dating
rock art from Americas
rock art in context
rock art interpretation
rock art preservation
rock carvings
rock engravings
Southwest petroglyphs
stone age images
UNESCO rock sites
Product details
- ISBN 9780892366828
- Weight: 594g
- Dimensions: 204 x 253mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2002
- Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Although cave paintings from the European Ice Age have gained considerable renown, for many people the term "rock art" reamins full of mystery Yet it refers to perhaps the oldest form of artistic endeavour, splendid examples of which exist on all continents and from all eras Rock art stretches in time from more than forty thousand to less than forty years ago and can be found from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America, from the caves of southern France to the American Southwest It includes animal and human figures, complex geometrical forms, and myriad mysterious markings. Illustrated in colour throughout, this book provides an engaging overview of rock art worldwide. An introductory chapter discusses the discovery of rock art by the West and the importance of landscape and ritual. Subsequent chapters survey rock art sites throughout the world, explaining how the art can be dated and how it was made.
The book then explores the meaning of these often-enigmatic images, including the complex role they played in traditional societies A final chapter looks at the threats posed to rock art today by development, tourism, pollution, and other dangers, and discusses current initiatives to preserve this remarkable heritage.
Jean Clottes, author of more than fifteen books and three hundred articles on prehistory and prehistoric art, is one of the world's leading experts on rock art.
