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Author:   Geoffrey Blundell ,  Christopher Chippindale ,  Benjamin Smith
Publisher:   Left Coast Press Inc
Imprint:   Left Coast Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9781611320480

ISBN 10:   1611320488
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   01 July 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: Rock art with and without ethnography; 2: Flashes of brilliance: San rock paintings of heaven's things; 3: Snake and veil: The rock engravings of Driekopseiland, Northern Cape, South Africa; 4: Cups and saucers: A preliminary investigation of the rock carvings of Tsodilo Hills, northern Botswana 1; 5: Art and authorship in southern African rock art: Examining the Limpopo-Shashe Confluence Area; 6: Archaeology, ethnography, and rock art: A modern-day study from Tanzania; 7: Art and belief: The ever-changing and the never-changing in the Far West; 8: Crow Indian elk love-medicine and rock art in Montana and Wyoming; 9: Layer by layer: Precision and accuracy in rock art recording and dating; 10: From the tyranny of the figures to the interrelationship between myths, rock art and their surfaces; 11: Composite creatures in european Palaeolithic art; 12: Thinking strings: On theory, shifts and conceptual issues in the study of Palaeolithic art; 13: Rock art without ethnography?; 14: Meaning cannot rest or stay the same; 15: Manica rock art in contemporary society; 16: Oral tradition, ethnography, and the practice of North American archaeology; 17: Beyond rock art: Archaeological interpretation and the shamanic frame

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This collection of essays makes a relevant and significant contribution to the field of rock art research. Many of the chapters are based on solid fieldwork and ethnography that offer a new body of evidence for differentiation between knowing and simply seeing. -Janette Deacon

<p> This collection of essays makes a relevant and significant contribution to the field of rock art research. Many of the chapters are based on solid fieldwork and ethnography that offer a new body of evidence for differentiation between knowing and simply seeing. <p>-Janette Deacon

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Benjamin Smith, Geoffrey Blundell, Christopher Chippindale

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