History of art: pre-history books

The Erligang culture is best known for the remains of an immense walled city at Zhengzhou, a smaller site at Panlongcheng...  Read More >>

The Erligang culture is best known for the remains of an immense walled city at Zhengzhou, a smaller site at Panlongcheng...  Read More >>

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Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory - all this expanding terminology underscores...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the 'un-naturalistic' iconography of human imagery intuitively regarded as 'super-natural'....  Read More >>

The story of ancient canyon dwellers along the Lower Pecos and their culture  Read More >>

Four thousand years ago bands of hunter-gatherers lived in and travelled through the challenging terrain of what...  Read More >>

Can cognitive science explain the potency of such images? Does evolutionary psychology hold a key to understanding...  Read More >>

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Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory all of these composite designations have come...  Read More >>

Leading authorities provide the first state-of-the-art study of the history, meaning, and significance of Native...  Read More >>

The most complete account of ancient man in the New York area ever published in one volume, this book traces a rich,...  Read More >>

The rock art found in the World Cultural Heritage site of the Alta area, Norway, comprises thousands of images including...  Read More >>

Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD. They bring together...  Read More >>

In this 105-page book well-known Oregon artist George Johanson offers his observations and interpretations of the...  Read More >>

Examines the relationship between rock art, shamanism, and the origins of human existence.  Read More >>

This volume provides new insights into the Nok Culture of Nigeria, West Africa. It is the catalog of the exhibition...  Read More >>

This study presents a comprehensive architectural survey of ancient structures in the region ranging from Colorado...  Read More >>

From 1997 to 2004, we executed Photographic VR shooting of Palaeolithic cave paintings in 23 major caves and about...  Read More >>

'Troy. City, Homer and Turkey' presents the latest insights and discoveries relating to both the historical and...  Read More >>

Megalithism, or the art of using huge boulders to create sacred, pagan monuments and sites, still fascinates us...  Read More >>

This lavishly illustrated volume brings together newly revised and expanded symposium papers from pre-Columbian...  Read More >>

With an estimated 10,000 ancient rock art sites, Nine Mile Canyon has long captivated people the world over. The...  Read More >>

This volume presents previously unpublished notes and descriptions from work at the important prehistoric pueblo...  Read More >>

The decorative art of the Indians of the north Pacific coast. This book, The decorative art of the Indians of the...  Read More >>