Rock-Art / Semiotics

Rock Art in the Americas: Mythology, Cosmogony and Rituals
Proceedings of the 2nd REEA Conference Ritual Americas: Configurations and Recombining of the Ritual Devices and Behaviors in the New World, in Historical and Contemporary Societies Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) April 2-5, 2008
£39.00
Editors:
Françoise Fauconnier and Serge Lemaitre
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English and Spanish
ISBN:
9781407310527
Paperback:
138pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2448
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the 2nd REEA Conference Ritual Americas: Configurations and Recombining of the Ritual Devices and Behaviors in the New World, in Historical and Contemporary Societies Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) April 2-5, 2008
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Rock Art in the Landscapes of Motion
Proceedings of a session of the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018 in Valcamonica, Italy
£56.00
Editors:
Pawel L Polkowski and Frank Förster
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359892
Paperback:
192 pages
BAR number:
S3092
Sub Title:
Proceedings of a session of the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018 in Valcamonica, Italy
This volume presents a collection of papers focusing on the dynamic relationship between rock art, movement and the surrounding landscape. The contributors... More
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Rock Art of the Eastern Desert of Egypt
Content, comparisons, dating and significance
£38.00
Author:
Tony Judd
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305844
Paperback:
151pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2008
Sub Title:
Content, comparisons, dating and significance
The objective of this research is to advance the understanding of the Egyptian Eastern Desert region petroglyphs by means of three steps:... More
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Rock Art Research in the Digital Era
Case Studies from the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018, Valcamonica (Italy)
£47.00
Editors:
Miguel Carrero-Pazos, Rebecca Döhl, Julian Jansen van Rensburg, Paolo Medici, Alia Vázquez-Martínez
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407360119
Paperback:
164 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour.
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Prehistoric Art, 5
BAR number:
S3098
Sub Title:
Case Studies from the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018, Valcamonica (Italy)
Rock Art Research in the Digital Era covers the research presented at the 20th International Rock Art Congress (IFRAO) held in Darfo Boario Terme,... More
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Rock Art, Water, and Ancestors
The semiotic construction of a sacred landscape in the central Andes (1800 BCE - CE 1820)
£78.00
Author:
Gordon Ambrosino
Publication Year:
2020
ISBN:
9781407356624
Paperback:
296 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 39 tables, 320 figures, 9 maps, 4 graphs
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Prehistoric Art, 2
BAR number:
S2969
Sub Title:
The semiotic construction of a sacred landscape in the central Andes (1800 BCE - CE 1820)
As landscape art, the rock art of the central Andes offers clues regarding relationships between ancestor veneration and the negotiation of rights to water.... More
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Sailing Rock Art Boats
A reassessment of seafaring abilities in Bronze Age Scandinavia and the introduction of the sail in the North
£53.00
Author:
Boel Bengtsson
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315690
Paperback:
172 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 6 tables (in colour), 97 figures (46 in colour)
BAR number:
S2865
Sub Title:
A reassessment of seafaring abilities in Bronze Age Scandinavia and the introduction of the sail in the North
This book argues that the use of sail as a complement to paddling would have formed an integral part of the development of centres of power in the early... More
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Shepherds Who Write
Pastoral graffiti in the uplands of Europe from prehistory to the modern age
£69.00
Editors:
Marta Bazzanella and Giovanni Kezich
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357140
Paperback:
256 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 7 tables, 228 figures.
BAR number:
S2999
Sub Title:
Pastoral graffiti in the uplands of Europe from prehistory to the modern age
In a number of significant sites of the vast ancient pasturelands of the Old World, generations of wandering shepherds have left their testimony in the form... More
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£75.00
Editors:
Fanis Mavridis and Jesper Tae Jensen
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311791
Paperback:
361pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2558
This volume provides a welcome introduction to cave archaeology generally (or it may be used as a reader on aspects of cave research);... More
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£33.00
Author:
Vykintas Vaitkevičius
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841713564
Paperback:
128pp, Includes black and white figures, maps
BAR number:
S1228
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Styles, techniques et expression graphique dans l'art sur paroi rocheuse (Styles, Techniques and Graphic Expression in Rock Art)
Proceedings of Session A11d of the 17th World Congress of the IUPPS (Actes de la session A11d du 17e Congrés mondial de l’UISPP) (Burgos 1-7 September 2014)
£60.00
Editors:
Marc Groenen and Marie-Christine Groenen
Publication Year:
2016
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407314464
Paperback:
226pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white: 1 table, 174 figures (including 103 black and white photographs and 5 colour photographs)
BAR number:
S2787
Sub Title:
Proceedings of Session A11d of the 17th World Congress of the IUPPS (Actes de la session A11d du 17e Congrés mondial de l’UISPP) (Burgos 1-7 September 2014)
Research on rock art conducted during the last several decades has shown the skill and knowledge demonstrated by the painters, engravers and sculptors who... More
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Symbolic Notation of Teotihuacan
Elements of writing in a Mesoamerican culture of the Classic period
£77.00
Author:
James C. Langley
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544005
Paperback:
370pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p341-355
BAR number:
S313
Sub Title:
Elements of writing in a Mesoamerican culture of the Classic period
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Symbolic Spaces in Prehistoric Art / Espaces symboliques dans l'art préhistorique
Territories, travels and site locations / Territoires, déplacements et localisation des sites
£32.00
Editors:
François Djindjian and Luiz Oosterbeek
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
French and English
ISBN:
9781407305332
Paperback:
129pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006)
BAR number:
S1999
Sub Title:
Territories, travels and site locations / Territoires, déplacements et localisation des sites
This book includes papers from the session (Vol. 40, Session C28) 'Symbolic Spaces in Prehistoric Art', presented at the XV UISPP World... More
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