Rock art
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Pictograph in southeastern Utah, from the Basketmaker period of Puebloan culture
- Petroglyphs – carvings into stone surfaces
- Pictographs – rock and cave paintings
In addition, petroforms and inukshuks are rock art made by aligning or piling natural stones. The stones themselves are used as large markings on the ground.
Contents
Location
One can find petroglyphs and pictographs on the walls of a cave or on rock in open-air.
Similar terms
Rock art has also been described as rock records,[1] rock sculptures,[2] rock inscriptions,[3] rock carvings,[4] rock paintings,[5] rock engravings,[6] rock drawings,[7] rock pictures,[8]
Gallery
- Buddhas at ili.jpg
Buddhist stone carvings at Ili River, Kazakhstan
- Bhimbetka.JPG
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka rock painting, World Heritage Site
- Sweden-Brastad-Petroglyph Skomakaren-Aug 2003.jpg
"The Shoemaker", Brastad, Sweden
Related pages
References
- ↑ Moore G. 1861. The lost tribes and the Saxons of the East: with translations of rock-records in India.
- ↑ Tylor 1865. Early history of Man. v. 88, "Rock-sculptures may often be symbolic boundary marks".
- ↑ Deutsch, Rem. 177, 1874: The long rock-inscription of Hamamât.
- ↑ Chadwick H.M. 1907. The rock-carvings at Tegneby. Origin Eng. Nation xii. 306.
- ↑ Encycl. Relig. & Ethics I. 822/2, 1908: "The rock-paintings are either stencilled or painted in outline".
- ↑ Wells H.G. 1920 Outl. Hist. I. xvii. 126/1: "From rock engravings we may deduce the theory that the desert was crossed from oasis to oasis".
- ↑ Winkler H.A. 1938. Rock-drawings of southern Upper Egypt I. 26.
- ↑ Man No. 119. 178/2, 1939: "On one of the stalactite pillars was found a big round stone with traces of red paint on its surface, as used in the rock-pictures"
Further reading
- Malotki, Ekkehart and Weaver, Donald E. Jr., 2002, Stone Chisel and Yucca Brush: Colorao Plateau Rock Art, Kiva Publishing Inc., Walnut, CA, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn". (cloth). For the "general public", this book has well over 200 color prints with commentary on each site where the photos were taken; the organization begins with the earliest art and goes to modern times.
- Rohn, Arthur H. and Freguson, William M, 2006, Puebloan ruins of the Southwest, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn". (pbk, : alk. paper). Adjunct to the primary discussion of the ruins, contains color prints of rock art at the sites, plus interpretations.
- Schaafsma, Polly, 1980, Indian Rock Art of the Southwest, School of American Research, Sana Fe, University of New Mexico press, Albuquerque, NM, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".. Scholarly text with 349 references, 32 color plates, 283 black and white "Figures", 11 Maps, and 2 Tables.
Other websites
- Ekaterina, Devlet. 2001. Rock Art and the material culture of Siberian and central Asian shamanism. In The Archaeology of Shamanism. 43-54. 01/04/2007.
- Rock Art studies - A Bibliographic database at the Bancroft Library containing over 10,000 citations to the world's rock art literature.
- The website of Rock Art Foundation - Native American Rock Art
- Trust for African Rock Art
- British Rock Art Collection
- ARARA American Rock Art Research Association.
- Rupestre.net A rock art site, mainly devoted to Valcamonica and Alpine Rock Art.
- EuroPreArt The database of European Prehistoric Art.
- Art and Archaeology of the Dampier Archipelago
- Bradshaw Foundation Supports dissemination of information on rock art, migration, and the study of artistic man around the world.
- Rock Art in South Africa http://rockart.wits.ac.za/origins/
- UNESCO World Heritage: Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
