Research Catalog

Title

African rock art : the future of Africa's past : proceedings of the 2004 International Rock Art Conference, Nairobi / edited by Janette Deacon.

Author

International Rock Art Conference (2004 : Nairobi, Kenya)

Publication

Nairobi : Trust for African Rock Art, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Deacon, Janette.
• Trust for African Rock Art.

Description

139 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps; 30 cm.

Subject

• Rock paintings > Africa > Congresses
• Petroglyphs > Africa > Congresses
• Africa > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Summaries in English and French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The future of Africa's past : African rock art in the 21st century, African Rock art / David Coulson (p. 2-3). -- Art and the evolution of human imagination / Wilmot James (p. 8-13). -- An exceptional painted cave in the Ardèche [France] : the Chauvet Cave / Jean Clottes (p. 14-15). -- TARA and the challenges of rock art conservation in Africa / Alec Campbell (p. 22-28). -- Management strategies for African rock art / Janette Deacon (p. 29-34). -- Rock art research, conservation and social transformation in South Africa / John Parkington (p. 35-39). -- Community participatino and rock art management in Zimbabwe / Pascall Taruvinga (p. 39-48). -- Rock art, cultural tourism and the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa / Robert Hitchcock (p. 49-58). --
• State-of-the-art technologies in heritage documentation : the giraffe engravings of Oued Djerat, Algeria / Heinz Rüther (p. 59-70). -- Rock art patrimony of mOrocco : an endangered cultural property / Abdellah Salih (p. 71-76). -- Saharan rock art, a vanishing herigage : government and community cooperation in Niger / Sidi Mohamed Illiès (p. 77-85). -- For whom the bell tolls : rescue recording of petroglyphs and rock gongs in the Merowe Dam Reservoir area of the Fourth Nile Cataract [Sudan] / Cornelia Kleinitz (p. 86-95). -- Schematic rock art in west Ethiopia / Victor Fernandez (p. 95-98). -- Ancient rock art sites in Eritrea : distribution, classification, and currernt status / Zelalem Teka (p. 99-101). --
• New perspectives on Kenyan rock art from Mt. Elgon, Trans-Nzola, and Kara-Pokot : a preliminary report / Emmanuel Ndiema (p. 102-105). -- Raiders of the lost art : implications of rock art forgery at Lukenya Hill, Kenya, for cultural and natural heritage protection strategies / Stanley Ambrose (p. 106-111). -- Tara conference excursion to Lukenya Hill, Kenya / Alec Campbell (p. 221-113). -- Analysing and comparing rock art sequendes in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Joané Swart (p. 114-127). -- Dating of rock art in Africa / Aron Mazel (p. 118-127). -- The meaning of rock art : ethnography, comparison, metaphor / Megan Biesele (p. 128-131). -- Rock art research for the 21st century : bringing art, science, and people together / Paul Taçon (p. 132-138).

ISBN

• 9966705546
• 9789966705549

LCCN

^^2010305430

OCLC

316791697

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library