Research Catalog

Title

Symbolism in rock art / edited by Fernando Coimbra, Léo Dubal.

Author

International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. World Congress (15th : 2006 : Lisbon, Portugal)

Publication

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Coimbra, Fernando.
• Dubal, Léo, 1940-
• International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences.

Description

vi, 62 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

BAR international series ; 1793

Uniform Title

BAR international series ; 1793.

Alternative Title

Union Internationale des Sceinces Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques = International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Proceedings of the XV World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) = Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006), Vol. 25, Session WS34

Subject

• Rock paintings > Congresses
• Petroglyphs > Congresses
• Art, Prehistoric > Congresses
• Symbolism in art > Congresses
• Rock art
• Symbolism
• Prehistoric sciences
• Protohistoric sciences
• UISPP

Note

• "Union Internationale des Sceinces Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques/International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Proceedings of the XV World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006)/Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 25, Session WS34."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Fernando Coimbra and Léo Dubal -- Faceless anthropomorphic symbols: the shift from men to gods / Léo Dubal -- The pentagram in rock art: some interpretive possibilities / Fernando Augusto Coimbra -- A contribution to the understanding of spirals and lozenges in the rock art of Neolithic Britain and Ireland / G. Terence Meaden); -- The bull horn symbolism in Dionysus cult as coming out from the prehistoric rock art iconography / George Dimitriadis -- Footprint & handprint symbols: having or being? / Léo Dubal -- Cupmarks and triangles in British Neolithic art with particular attention to three triangular portable stones from Avebury's eastern hills, each with a cupmark at the apex / G. Terence Meaden -- On the symbolism of net patterned and ruled rectangles from the Neolithic to the Iron Age / Adolfo Zavaroni -- Open air rock art in the Ceira and Alva River valleys: some symbols / Nuno Miguel C. Ribeiro -- Mount Pindo in Galicia and the prehistoric petroglyphs / José Luis Galovart Carrera.

ISBN

• 9781407302812
• 1407302817

OCLC

• ocn235967901
• 235967901
• SCSB-5425026

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries