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New light on old art : recent advances in hunter-gatherer rock art research

Title
New light on old art : recent advances in hunter-gatherer rock art research / David S. Whitley and Lawrence L. Loendorf, editors.
Publication
Los Angeles : Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Whitley, David S.
  • Loendorf, Lawrence L.
Description
xx, 124 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
Series Statement
Monograph ; 36
Uniform Title
Monograph (University of California, Los Angeles. Institute of Archaeology) ; 36.
Subject
  • Rock paintings
  • Petroglyphs
  • Indians of North America > West (U.S.) > Antiquities
  • Rock paintings > Europe
  • Indians of North America > antiquities
  • rock engravings
  • rock paintings
  • Antiquities
  • Indians of North America > Antiquities
  • Peinture pariétale
  • Pétroglyphes
  • Indiens > États-Unis (ouest) > Antiquités
  • Peinture pariétale > Europe
  • West (U.S.) > Antiquities
  • Europe > Antiquities
  • West (U.S.)
  • Europe
  • West United States
  • États-Unis (ouest) > Antiquités
  • Europe > Antiquités
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction : off the cover and into the book / David S. Whitley -- Who painted what in upper paleolithic European caves / Jean Clottes -- Radiocarbon dating of rock painting / Scott D. Chaffee, Marian Hyman, and Marvin W. Rowe -- Dating petroglyphs with a three-tier rock varnish approach / Ronald I. Dorn -- Cation-ratio dating and chronological variation within Dinwoody-tradition rock art in northwestern Wyoming / Julie Francis -- Scratched rock art complexes in the desert West : symbols for socio-religious communication / Eric W. Ritter -- A gendered search through some west Texas rock art / Patricia M. Bass -- The were-cougar theme in Pecos River-style art and its implications for traditional archaeology / Solveig A. Turpin -- Ethnography and rock art in the far West : some archaeological implications / David S. Whitley -- Traditional archaeological methods and their applications at rock art sites / Lawrence L. Loendorf -- Afterword : prehistoric rock art and the study of archaeology / George C. Frison.
  • Afterword: Prehistoric Rock Art and the Study of Archaeology / George C. Frison.
ISBN
  • 0917956796
  • 9780917956799
LCCN
93030234
OCLC
  • ocm28724310
  • 28724310
  • SCSB-2019125
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library