The Archaeology of Rock-Art
By (author): "Paul S.C. Taçon, Christopher Chippindale"
Publish Date:
January 1st 1999
ISBN0521576199
ISBN139780521576192
AsinThe Archaeology of Rock-Art
Original titleThe Archaeology of Rock-Art (New Directions in Archaeology Series)
Rock-art - prehistoric pictures - gives us lively and captivating images of animals and people painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces. It is all too easy to guess at the meanings the images carry. This pioneering set of sparkling essays instead explores how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times by adapting the proven methods of archaeology to the special subject of rock art.