The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art

The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : 0521524245
ISBN-13 : 9780521524247
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Book Synopsis The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art by : George Nash

Download or read book The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art written by George Nash and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Cambridge 1998), this new collection edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash addresses the most important component around the rock-art panel - its landscape. The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art draws together the work of many well-known scholars from key regions of the world for rock-art and for rock-art research. It provides a unique, broad and varied insight into the arrangement, location, and structure of rock-art and its place within the landscapes of ancient worlds as ancient people experienced them. Packed with illustrations, as befits a book about images, The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art offers a visual as well as a literary key to the understanding of this most lovely and alluring of archaeological traces.


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