Rock Art Of The Lower Pecos
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Rock Art of the Lower Pecos
Author | : Carolyn E. Boyd |
Publsiher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : 1585442593 |
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Boyd seed a way that hunter-gatherer artists expressed their belief systems; provided a mechanism for social and environmental adaptation; and acted as agents in the social, economic, and ideological affairs of the community. She offers detailed information gleaned from the art regarding the nature of the Lower Pecos cosmos, ritual practices involving the use of sacramental and medicinal plants, and hunter-gatherer lifeways.
Pecos River Style Rock Art
Author | : James Burr Harrison Macrae |
Publsiher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781623496401 |
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Pecos River style pictographs are one of the most complex forms of rock art worldwide. The dramatic prehistoric pictographs on the limestone overhangs of the lower Pecos and Devils Rivers in West Texas have been the subject of preservation and study since the 1930s, and dedicated research continues to this day. The medium is large-scale, polychrome pictographs in open rock shelter settings, emphasizing the animistic/shamanistic religion practiced by the local aboriginal peoples. Creating large-scale rock murals required intelligence, skill, and knowledge. These enigmatic images, some dating to 4,500 years ago and possibly earlier, depict strange, vaguely human and animal shapes and various geometric forms. While full understanding of the meaning of these images is abstruse, archaeologists and other scholars have identified what they believe to be patterns and religious themes, mixed with what could be figures and objects from everyday life in the local hunter-gatherer culture as it existed in the region centuries before the arrival of colonizing Europeans. Although interpretation of these pictographs remains controversial, in Pecos River Style Rock Art: A Prehistoric Iconography, James Burr Harrison Macrae contributes to the beginnings of a syntactic “grammar” for these images that can be applied in diverse contexts without direct reference to any particular interpretation. “The strength of structural-iconographic analysis,” Macrae writes, “is that it relies on repetitive patterns rather than idiosyncratic information, such as trying to make broad inferences from one or only a few sites.” Pecos River Style Rock Art offers the framework of an empirical methodology for understanding these ancient artworks.
Ancient Texans
Author | : Harry J. Shafer,Georg Zappler |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : UOM:39015011606608 |
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This book is about, Indians of North America, Rock painting - Texas, Petroglyphs - Texas, Antiquities, Pecos River Valley.
Painters in Prehistory
Author | : Harry J. Shafer |
Publsiher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
ISBN | : 1595340866 |
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The story of ancient canyon dwellers along the Lower Pecos and their culture
The White Shaman Mural
Author | : Carolyn E. Boyd,Kim Cox |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2016-11-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781477310304 |
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Folded plate (1 leaf, 39 x 61 cm, folded to 19 x 16 cm) in pocket.
The Archaeology of Rock Art
Author | : Christopher Chippindale,Paul S. C. Taçon |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521576199 |
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Pictures, painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces, are amongst our loveliest relics from prehistory. This pioneering set of sparkling essays goes beyond guesses as to what the pictures mean, instead exploring how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times: in short, rock-art as archaeology. Sometimes contact-period records offer some direct insight about indigenous meaning, so we can learn in that informed way. More often, we have no direct record, and instead have to use formal methods to learn from the evidence of the pictures themselves. The book's eighteen papers range wide in space and time, from the Palaeolithic of Europe to nineteenth-century Australia. Using varied approaches within the consistent framework of informed and proven methods, they make key advances in using the striking and reticent evidence of rock-art to archaeological benefit.
Rock Art and Regional Identity
Author | : Jamie Hampson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781315420721 |
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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 the 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 variations. This is an ideal resource for students and researchers.
Pecos River Rock Art
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Author | : Jim Zintgraff,Solveig A. Turpin |
Publsiher | : Rock Art Foundation |
Total Pages | : 71 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Indian painting |
ISBN | : 0963381105 |
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A collection of some of the rock art and it's interpretation to be found along the Pecos River.