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Rock art on the northern Colorado plateau : variability in content and context
- Title
- Rock art on the northern Colorado plateau : variability in content and context / Ralph J. Hartley.
- Author
- Hartley, Ralph J.
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Avebury, ©1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | E78.C617 H37 1992 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vi, 158 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The author considers Aboriginal rock art to be one source of information used by prehistoric peoples in constructing knowledge about the dynamics of the social and physical environment in which they lived. This study examines the relationships between the morphological content of petroglyphs and pictographs and the places at which they occur along the drainage system of the Colorado River in southeastern Utah. Hartley examines the assemblage content of rock art at 388 locations to assess their variation with situational features noted at these places. He argues that rock art situated on boulders and at the bases of cliffs reveals the greatest information while displays of access restriction are considered more prevalent in rockshelters. Hartley concludes that the frequency and diversity of use of places exhibiting rock art is reflected in the information content of the rock art and that rock art varies with the kinds of functions these places served in the socioeconomic system of Aboriginal peoples." -- Google Books
- Series Statement
- Worldwide archaeology series ; 1
- Uniform Title
- Worldwide archaeology series ; 1.
- Subject
- Indian art > Colorado Plateau
- Indians of North America > Colorado Plateau > Antiquities
- Rock paintings > Colorado Plateau
- Petroglyphs > Colorado Plateau
- Antiquities
- Indian art
- Indians of North America > Antiquities
- Petroglyphs
- Rock paintings
- Felsbild
- Rotstekeningen
- Colorado Plateau (Nord)
- Colorado Plateau > Antiquities
- United States > Colorado Plateau
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-156) and index.
- Contents
- Contents -- list of figures -- list of tables -- list of plates -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Aboriginal Rock "Art": an enigma (Introduction ; Previous studies ; Problem statement ; Compiling knowledge about the environment) -- Chapter 2. The study area (Introduction ; Physiographic setting ; Climatic conditions ; Vegetational environment ; Faunal resources ; Summary) -- Chapter 3. Aboriginal land-use on the Colorado Plateau (Introduction ; The Cultural context of Petroglyphs and Pictographs ; Space and other resources ; Aboriginal land-use and the organization of places ; Summary) -- Chapter 4. The socio-ecological context of rock art on the landscape (Introduction ; Rock art as a function of intergroup relations ; Places as a source of information ; the predictions) -- Chapter 5. Procedures (The data ; Environmental context of rock art ; Glyph element classification ; Developing measures of rock "art" panels ; Summary) -- Chapter 6. Results of analysis (Introduction ; Situational features and rock art index ; Similarity of sites and their rock art index ; Rock "Art" and mapping site composition) -- Chapter 7. Assessment of study results (Boulders ; Rockshelters ; Cliff faces ; Conclusions) -- Appendix A. Information measures by site -- Appendix B. clustering procedures -- Appendix C. Analysis of variance tables -- Bibliography -- Index
- ISBN
- 1856287009
- 9781856287005
- LCCN
- 92011707
- OCLC
- ocm25630418
- 25630418
- SCSB-1947749
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library