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New Light on Old Art: Recent Discoveries in Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art Research

David S. Whitley

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The contributors to this volume discuss a series of these technical, methodological and substantive issues in the analysis of hunter-gatherer rock art. Principally emphasizing North America, the contributions provide summaries of advances in the dating of pictographs and petroglyphs, and interpretations of the art using ethnohistorical, iconographic, stratigraphic, and compartative data, with approaches informed by symbolic, semiotic, and gender studies.

Language: English

Pages: 124

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

Release: December 31, 1994

ISBN: 0917956796

ISBN 13: 9780917956799

New Light on Old Art: Recent Discoveries in Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art Research

David S. Whitley

0/5 ( ratings)

The contributors to this volume discuss a series of these technical, methodological and substantive issues in the analysis of hunter-gatherer rock art. Principally emphasizing North America, the contributions provide summaries of advances in the dating of pictographs and petroglyphs, and interpretations of the art using ethnohistorical, iconographic, stratigraphic, and compartative data, with approaches informed by symbolic, semiotic, and gender studies.

Language: English

Pages: 124

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

Release: December 31, 1994

ISBN: 0917956796

ISBN 13: 9780917956799

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