History of art: pre-history books

568 books were found.

Interacting with Figurines: Seven Dimensions in the Study of Imagery

Interacting with Figurines: Seven Dimensions in the...

Author: Harald Haarmann
ISBN: 9780979004636
Format: Paperback
$47.39

The Visible Manifestation of the Invisible World Ever since humans moved into Eurasia, they have fashioned figurines...  Read More >>

Die Palaoventetische Votivkeramik Aus Dem Reitia-Heiligtum Von Este: (Ausgrabungen 1880-1916 Und 1987-1991)

Die Palaoventetische Votivkeramik Aus Dem Reitia-Heiligtum...

Author: Joachim Meffert
ISBN: 9783805339292
Format: Hardback
$704.88

English summary: The first part of this volume examines the Prehistoric pottery of the Reitia sanctuary typologically...  Read More >>

Our Indian Princess: Subverting the Stereotype

Our Indian Princess: Subverting the Stereotype

Author: Nancy Marie Mithlo
ISBN: 9781930618978
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In this pathbreaking study, anthropologist Nancy Marie Mithlo examines the power of stereotypes, the utility of...  Read More >>

Symbolic Spaces in Prehistoric Art: Territories, travels and site locations / Territoires, déplacements et localisation des sites

Symbolic Spaces in Prehistoric Art: Territories, travels...

Author: François Djindjian ,  Luiz Oosterbeek
ISBN: 9781407305332
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book contains papers in English and papers in French Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP Lisbon, 4-9...  Read More >>

The Cave and the Cathedral

The Cave and the Cathedral

Author: Amir D Aczel
ISBN: 9780470373538
Format: Hardback
$68.51

What France's ancient cave drawings may reveal about the origin of language, art, and human thought--insights into...  Read More >>

Stonehenge - A Temple Restored to the British Druids

Stonehenge - A Temple Restored to the British Druids...

Author: William Stukeley MD
ISBN: 9781934935453
Format: Paperback
$44.75

This 1740 analysis of Stonehenge by William Stukeley is one of the classic studies of the historic and mystical...  Read More >>

Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast

Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art...

Author: Ian M. Thom
ISBN: 9780295989198
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Through their own words and artwork, Ian Thom examines the careers, working methods, and philosophy of forty active...  Read More >>

Image and Audience: Rethinking Prehistoric Art

Image and Audience: Rethinking Prehistoric Art

Author: Richard Bradley
ISBN: 9781282053243
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

There have been many accounts of prehistoric 'art', but nearly all of them begin by assuming that the concept is...  Read More >>

Britain's Oldest Art: The Ice Age cave art of Creswell Crags

Britain's Oldest Art: The Ice Age cave art of Creswell...

Author: Paul Bahn ,  Paul Pettitt
ISBN: 9781848020252
Format: Paperback
$43.96

This is the story of the discovery, in 2003, of Britain’s first Ice Age cave art at Creswell Crags. It includes...  Read More >>

The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture

The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture...

Author: Georges Bataille ,  Stuart Kendall
ISBN: 9781890951566
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A radically interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins of human consciousness, community, and potential.  Read More >>

Image and Audience: Rethinking Prehistoric Art

Image and Audience: Rethinking Prehistoric Art

Author: Richard Bradley (Professor of Archaeology, University of Reading)
ISBN: 9780199533855
Format: Hardback
$263.00

In this extensively illustrated study, Richard Bradley asks why ancient objects were created and when and how they...  Read More >>

Arts & Cultures: 30 Years of the Museum, 1977-2007

Arts & Cultures: 30 Years of the Museum, 1977-2007

Author: Laurence Mattet
ISBN: 9782757200704
Format: Paperback
$102.96

Arts & Cultures No 8 is The annual publication of the Barbier-Mueher museums in Geneva and Barcelona is a must have...  Read More >>

The Creative Ice Age Brain: Cave Art in the Light of Neuroscience

The Creative Ice Age Brain: Cave Art in the Light of...

Author: Barbara Olins Zeman
ISBN: 9781934171103
Format: Hardback
$198.00

By Barbara Olins Alpert. Foreword by Dr. Adam Zeman.  Read More >>

American Folk Art

American Folk Art

Author: William C Ketchum, Jr.
ISBN: 9781597643085
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Since the time of the earliest settlers, Americans have been expressing their individuality through the embellishment...  Read More >>

Musée du Louvre fascicule 27

Musée du Louvre fascicule 27

Author: N. Malagardis ,  N. Malagardis
ISBN: 9782877542012
Format: Hardback
$203.28

Ce volume du CVA France est entièrement consacré aux gobelets attiques du Louvre, vases également nommés...  Read More >>

Written on Stone: The Cultural Reception of British Prehistoric Monuments

Written on Stone: The Cultural Reception of British...

Author: Joanne Parker
ISBN: 9781282481237
Format: Electronic book text
$166.69

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Suicide and Justice: A Chinese Perspective

Suicide and Justice: A Chinese Perspective

Author:
ISBN: 9781282315211
Format: Electronic book text
$409.20

By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and local psychology and...  Read More >>

Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890 1915

Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation...

Author: Elizabeth Hutchinson ,  Nicholas Thomas
ISBN: 9781283036412
Format: Electronic book text
$284.96

In the early twentieth century, Native American baskets, blankets, and bowls could be purchased from department...  Read More >>

Legacy on Stone: Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners Region

Legacy on Stone: Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau and...

Author: Sally J Cole
ISBN: 9781555663919
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Eclectic Collecting: Art from Burma in the Denison Museum

Eclectic Collecting: Art from Burma in the Denison Museum...

Author: Alexandra Green ,  Jens Johansen
ISBN: 9780824833114
Format: Hardback
$163.68

Examines the production and use of textiles by the Karenic, Chin, Kachin, Lahu, Tai, and Wa minority groups, as...  Read More >>

Arts & Cultures: No. 9

Arts & Cultures: No. 9

Author: Laurence Mattet
ISBN: 9782757201640
Format: Paperback
$102.96

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Dreamtime Superhighway: Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange

Dreamtime Superhighway: Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric...

Author: Jo McDonald
ISBN: 9781921536168
Format: Paperback
$65.00

'Dreamtime Superhighway' presents a thorough and original contextualization of the rock art and archaeology of the...  Read More >>

Rock Art Studies - News of the World Volume 3

Rock Art Studies - News of the World Volume 3

Author: Natalie R. Franklin ,  Matthias Strecker
ISBN: 9781842173169
Format: Paperback
$168.19

This is the third in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world....  Read More >>

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