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“matthias strecker”

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  • Rock Art Studies - News of the World

    Volume 3

    de Natalie R. Franklin, Matthias Strecker ...
    This is the third in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions. The volume presents examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the New World. During the period in question, 1999 to 2004, there have been few major events, although ... Leer más

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  • The Oldest Enigma of Humanity

    The Key to the Mystery of the Paleolithic Cave Paintings

    de Bertrand David, Jean-Jacques Lefrère ...
    Thirty thousand years ago our prehistoric ancestors painted perfect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often without any light. How was this possible? What meaning and messages did the cavemen want these paintings to convey? In addition, how did these perfect drawings come about at a time when man's sole purpose was surviving? And why, some ten thousand years later, did startlingly ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Last Wild Men of Borneo

    A True Story of Death and Treasure

    de Carl Hoffman ...
    A 2019 EDGAR AWARDS NOMINEE (BEST FACT CRIME) • A BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS FINALISTTwo modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary "Wild Men of Borneo." One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization—or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times bestselling author Carl Hoffman ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • What Is Paleolithic Art?

    Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

    de Jean Clottes ...
    Traducido por Oliver Y. Martin, Robert D. Martin ...
    The noted archaeologist explores the varieties of prehistoric cave art across the world and offers surprising insights into its purpose and meaning.What drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the likenesses of lions, bison, horses, and aurochs as they flickered by firelight? Was it a creative impulse, a spiritual dawn, a shamanistic conception of ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Last Trojan Hero

    A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

    de Philip Hardie ...
    “I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.” The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Archeology of Sardinia

    de Logus-Mezzolani ...
    Series Libro 2 - Gioielli di Sardegna - Viaggi
    The most important archaeological monuments of Sardinia published for the first time in an ebook. From 3500 BC to the early centuries after Christ: the culture of the menhirs to the Roman baths, going for the most important period, the nuragic. Among these could not miss the archaeological complex on Nuraxi Barumini. With interactive maps, and numerous external resources, 28 archaeological sites. ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Golden Age of Chinese Art

    The Lively T'ang Dynasty

    de Hugh Scott ...
    For almost three hundred years the noble T'ang Dynasty fostered a period of artistic and intellectual endeavor which has never been equaled in the history of China. Sculpture, ceramics, glass, and textiles were some of the major artifacts that emerged from this glorious renaissance of Chinese taste and skill.This book is the story of the T'ang told through objects in the author's collection, one ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Origins of Monsters

    Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    de David Wengrow ...
    Series series The Rostovtzeff Lectures
    It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and isolated in the art of the prehistoric era. Instead it was with the rise of cities, elites, and ... Leer más

    $41.79 USD

  • Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba

    de Ramón Dacal Moure, Manuel Rivero de la Calle ...
    Series Libro 349 - Pitt Latin American Series
    Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba presents a number of works, sixteen reproduced in color, by pre-Columbian artists from the archipelago, covering three millennia of human life in Cuba.Living under difficult conditions, the first Cubans sculpted their emotions, fears, and hopes on stone, shell, wood, and bones. Much of their art has not previously been available either within or outside of ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Hidden Thunder

    Rock Art of the Upper Midwest

    de Geri Schrab, Robert F. Boszhardt ...
    In Hidden Thunder, renowned watercolor artist Geri Schrab and archaeologist Robert "Ernie" Boszhardt give readers an up-close-and-personal look at rock art. With an eye toward preservation, Schrab and Boszhardt take you with them as they research, document, and interpret at the ancient petroglyphs and pictographs made my Native Americans in past millennia. In addition to publicly accessible sites ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Sacred Consumption

    Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture

    de Elizabeth Morán ...
    Making a foundational contribution to Mesoamerican studies, this book explores Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptures, as well as indigenous and colonial Spanish texts, to offer the first integrated study of food and ritual in Aztec art.Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish sixteenth-century texts, were filled with images of foodstuffs and food ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • A Culture of Stone

    Inka Perspectives on Rock

    de Carolyn Dean ...
    A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD