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Eighteen essays from the 15th uispp congress which look at the iconography and symbolism of prehistoric art, focusing in the main on rock art. Papers include reports on new discoveries, such as some schematic Neolithic and Chalcothic engravingson the Ibor River in Spain, on particular symbols, such as Neolithic cruciform designs, and broader theoretical papers on issues such as the interplay between art and shamanism or the use of new techniques such as optical 3D measurements in the interpretation of rock art. Papers in English, Spanish and French.

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Author:   Luiz Oosterbeek ,  Marcel Otte ,  Laurence Remacle ,  Dario Seglie
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Volume:   No. 2028
Weight:   0.678kg
ISBN:  

9781407306056

ISBN 10:   1407306057
Pages:   170
Publication Date:   10 December 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1) Un nuevo conjunto de arte rupestre esquemático en el tramo final del río Ibor (Cáceres, España) (Mª A.Aldecoa Quintana, A. Domínguez García); 2) Towards a Pastoral Neolithic Society: Khanguet- El-Hadjar, Constantinois, Algeria (Idir Amara, Colette Roubet); 3) Les figures humaines sexuées segmentées et isolées : pérennité et ruptures (Raphaëlle Bourrillon); 3) Les Manifestations Esthétiques du Mésolithique (Florence Bouvry); 4) Death and Transfiguration of a sign. The cruciform on the Neolithic steles of western France (Serge Cassen); 5) Una aproximación interpretativa: Variabilidad y funcionalidad enlos abrigos con arte rupestre. Su reflejo en el Parque Natural de Monfragüe (Cáceres) (Hipólito Collado Giraldo); 6) Complexo de Sítios de Pinturas Rupestres da Pedra Grande na Região dos Inselbergues de Itatim, Bahia, Brasil - Estado Atual e Perspectivas de Preservação de uma Área Arqueológica em Alto Risco de Degradação (Claudia Cunha, Flávio França, Efigênia de Melo, Jacqueline Miranda Gonçalves); 7) Sonajeros hechos con pupas de insectos entre cazadores recolectores andinos y sudafricanos. Su representación en Arte Rupestre (Alicia Ana Fernández Distel); 8) Palaeoart and Selection (Arsen Faradzhev); 9) Interpreting Visual Narrative - from North European Rock Art to Shamanic Drums of Northern Peoples (Liliana Janik); 10) Iconography and optical 3D measurements techniques: a modern view on the megalithic art of the gallery-grave at Züschen/Lohne (Germany) (Dieter Dirksen, Albrecht Jockenhövel, Lena Loerper); 11) Carved Rocks, Functional and Symbolic (Lemnos island, Greece) (Christina Marangou); 12) Schematic panel with palaeolithic punctuation and other questions of Paleoastronomy and Philosophy of Antiquity (José Fernández Quintano); 13) Rock-art from Houmian Valley, Lorestan Province, Iran (Laurence Remacle, Jalal Adeli, Marylise Lejeune, Sirvan Mohammadi, Marcel Otte); 14) Rock Art: From Prehistoric Time to Contemporary Man : Hypostasis, Metaphor, Meta-language ; From Reality to Virtual Museum (Dario Seglie); 15) Prehistoric Scandinavian rock art: iconography and interactions (Marie Vourc'h); 16) Remarques sur le symbolisme des stèles préhistoriques alpines (Adolfo Zavaroni); 17) Girls' initiation rock art in south-central Africa : women's voices (Leslie Zubieta)

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