Rock art and regional identity: a comparative perspective

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"Why did the ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean? This careful study of rock art motifs in Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in South Africa, demonstrates that there are archaeological and anthropological ways of accessing the past in order to investigate and explain the significance of rock art motifs. Using two disparate regions shows the possibility of comparative rock art studies and highlights the importance of regional studies and regional va…

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Full title :Rock art and regional identity : a comparative perspective / Jamie Hampson.

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Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

Notes

Originally published 2015 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (248 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781315420738, 1315420732, 9781315420707, 1315420708, 9781315420714, 1315420716
DOI:10.4324/9781315420738
oclc:ocn954006800
LC Classification:E78.T4
Dewey Decimal:976.49

1. Setting the scene : rock art and regional identity -- 2. Trans-Pecos Texas as a rock art region : developing an interpretive framework -- 3. Rock art regions in theory and in practice : a comparative case study from Mpumalanga Province, South Africa -- 4. An ethnographic approach to the Trans-Pecos rock art region -- 5. Widely distributed, regional, or rare? : six diagnostic Trans-Pecos motifs -- 6. Transformation and embodiment in the Trans-Pecos region -- 7. Reassessing the rock art region : a way forward.

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Antiquities Group identity Group identity -- History -- To 1500. -… Group identity -- History -- To 1500. -… History Indians of North America -- Antiquities Indians of North America -- Antiquities… Indigenous peoples -- Antiquities Indigenous peoples -- Antiquities. -- S… Mpumalanga (South Africa) -- Antiquities Regionalism Regionalism -- History -- To 1500. -- S… Regionalism -- History -- To 1500. -- T… Rock paintings Rock paintings -- South Africa Rock paintings -- Trans-Pecos (Tex. and… South Africa -- Mpumalanga To 1500 Trans-Pecos (Tex. and N.M.) -- Antiquit… United States -- Trans-Pecos