Author: Alvin R. McLane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780945920977
Category : Indian art
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
An Annotated Petroglyph and Pictograph Bibliography of Nevada and the Great Basin
Author: Alvin R. McLane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780945920977
Category : Indian art
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780945920977
Category : Indian art
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Great Basin Rock Art
Author: Angus R. Quinlan
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874177189
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Rock art is one of humankind’s most ancient forms of artistic expression, and one of its most enigmatic. For centuries, scholars and other observers have struggled to interpret the meaning of the mysterious figures incised or painted on natural rocks and to understand their role in the lives of their long-vanished creators. The Great Basin of the American West is especially rich in rock art, but until recently North American archaeologists have largely ignored these most visible monuments left by early Native Americans and have given little attention to the terrain surrounding them. In Great Basin Rock Art, twelve respected rock art researchers examine a number of significant sites from the dual perspectives of settlement archaeology and contemporary Native American interpretations of the role of rock art in their cultural past. The authors demonstrate how modern archaeological methodology and interpretations are providing a rich physical and cultural context for these ancient and hitherto puzzling artifacts. They offer exciting new insights into the lives of North America’s first inhabitants. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the petroglyphs of the American West and in the history of the Great Basin and its original peoples.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874177189
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Rock art is one of humankind’s most ancient forms of artistic expression, and one of its most enigmatic. For centuries, scholars and other observers have struggled to interpret the meaning of the mysterious figures incised or painted on natural rocks and to understand their role in the lives of their long-vanished creators. The Great Basin of the American West is especially rich in rock art, but until recently North American archaeologists have largely ignored these most visible monuments left by early Native Americans and have given little attention to the terrain surrounding them. In Great Basin Rock Art, twelve respected rock art researchers examine a number of significant sites from the dual perspectives of settlement archaeology and contemporary Native American interpretations of the role of rock art in their cultural past. The authors demonstrate how modern archaeological methodology and interpretations are providing a rich physical and cultural context for these ancient and hitherto puzzling artifacts. They offer exciting new insights into the lives of North America’s first inhabitants. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the petroglyphs of the American West and in the history of the Great Basin and its original peoples.
Prehistoric Rock Art of Nevada and Eastern California
Author: Robert Fleming Heizer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Nevada Test Site (NTS) and Off-site Locations in the State of Nevada, Tonopah Test Range, Portions of the Nellis AFB Range (NAFR) Complex, the Central Nevada Test Area, and Shoal Area, Nye County
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
High Roller
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest
Author: Alex Patterson
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555660918
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A key to the interpretation of rock art of the American Southwest, providing descriptions and illustrations of rock art symbols, along with their ascribed meanings, and including general and specific information on rock art sites.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555660918
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A key to the interpretation of rock art of the American Southwest, providing descriptions and illustrations of rock art symbols, along with their ascribed meanings, and including general and specific information on rock art sites.
The Void, the Grid & the Sign
Author: William L. Fox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
""The Sign" considers the language and the metaphors we continue to place around and over the void, revealing the Great Basin as a vast palimpsest where the neonlined boulevards of Las Vegas overlay and interplay with millennia-old petroglyphs and pictographs." "The Void, the Grid, & the Sign traverses the knowns and the unknowns of the Great Basin and gives us insight into the fanciful and fearsome projections ascribed to its vast spaces."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
""The Sign" considers the language and the metaphors we continue to place around and over the void, revealing the Great Basin as a vast palimpsest where the neonlined boulevards of Las Vegas overlay and interplay with millennia-old petroglyphs and pictographs." "The Void, the Grid, & the Sign traverses the knowns and the unknowns of the Great Basin and gives us insight into the fanciful and fearsome projections ascribed to its vast spaces."--BOOK JACKET.
Rock Art North of the Mexican-American Border
Author: George R. Mead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Catalog of the Robert Goldwater Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Robert Goldwater Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description