Prehistoric

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983110903Author Wyatt R KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Onagocag PublishingPublisher Onagocag PublishingWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Art in this overview guide to the...

The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language. Join renowned archaeologist Genevieve von...

What does the breathtakingly beautiful art depicted on the walls of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the ancestral mind? How did these images spring, seemingly from nowhere into the human story? The Mind in the...

Images of the Ice Age, here in its third edition, is the most complete study available of the world's earliest imagery, presenting a fascinating and up-to-date account of the art of our Ice Age ancestors. Authoritative and wide-ranging, it covers not...

**SELECTED AS A BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE SUNDAY TIMES** 'Stonard traverses the sweep of human history, moving between cultures and hemispheres ... His book consists of myriad flashes of brilliance and inventiveness' LITERARY REVIEW 'A...

Where do we find the world's very first art? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms and colours? Were our once-cousins, the Neanderthals, also capable of creating art? Prehistorians have been asking these questions...

Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was it...

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Northumberland is the most prolific, varied and important area of rock-art in Britain. This book, which includes every known site, relates the art to its landscape and monumental setting. This work follows naturally from the author's general work on rock...

Founded in the first century BCE near a set of natural springs in an otherwise dry northeastern corner of the Valley of Mexico, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan was on a symbolic level a city of elements. With a multiethnic population of perhaps one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129150431Author Rima HoojaFormat PaperbackPage Count 900Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt. LtdPublisher Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198768Author Stanislav SzukalskiFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

Excavations at the adjacent sites of Gorham's Cave and Vanguard Cave have yielded a rich combination of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental finds covering a timespan of over 100,000 years. This volume deals with the primary results of the 1995-1998...

An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as...

Our understanding of the human past is very limited. The mute evidence from excavation - the dusty pot shards, fragments of bone, slight variations in soil colour and texture - encourages abstraction and detachment. Reconstruction art offers a different...

Signalling and Performance: Ancient Rock Art in Britain and Ireland presents a state of the art survey of the ancient rock art of Britain and Ireland, bringing together new discoveries and new interpretations. Ancient rock art offers unique insights into...

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The 3,000-year-old Ambum Stone, from Papua New Guinea, is the focus of several archaeological stories. The stone itself is an interesting artifact, an important piece of art history that tells us something about the ancient Papuans. The stone is also at...

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The 3,000-year-old Ambum Stone, from Papua New Guinea, is the focus of several archaeological stories. The stone itself is an interesting artifact, an important piece of art history that tells us something about the ancient Papuans. The stone is also at...

One of the first people in Europe to consider the gifts which the Aztec ruler Montezuma gave to Hernan Cortes as works of art was Albrecht Durer: 'Nothing I have yet seen has given me such joy as the objects brought to the king from the new gold...

Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology invites readers to reconsider the contents and agendas of the art historical and world-culture canons by looking at one of their most historically enduring components: the art and archaeology...

Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present sets out a fresh perspective on rock art by considering how ancient images function in the present. In recent decades, archaeological approaches to rock paintings and...

Presented to Stan Beckensall on his 90th birthday, this diverse and stimulating collection of papers celebrates his crucial contribution to rock art studies, and also looks to the future. It should be of value to students of prehistoric Britain and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784907162139Author Roberto Cacho TocaFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint TexnaiPublisher TexnaiWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

The collected works of Julius Csotonyi, one of the world's most high profile and talented contemporary paleoartists. Csotonyi has considerable academic expertise that contributes to his stunning dynamic art.Csotonyi represents the natural world...

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In 1950, Dana Lamb, an explorer of some notoriety, stumbled on a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala. Lamb failed to record the location of the site he called Laxtunich, turning his find into the mystery at the center of this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692045459Author Mark HruskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Mark HruskaPublisher Mark HruskaWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 14mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784907162962Author Takeo FukazawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint TakeoPublisher TakeoWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 9mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784907162979Author Norio YokogoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint TexnaiPublisher TexnaiWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692081433Author Mark HruskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Mark HruskaPublisher Mark HruskaWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 216mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982037843Author Kenneth J ZollFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Vvac PressPublisher Vvac PressWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 4mm

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The delightful arts of American Indian tribes in the Southwest are occasionally made in miniature by especially talented artists who dare to work in tiny scale. This book presents, for the first time, a wide array of these miniatures of al the major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500844212Author Jean RobertsonPage Count 668Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 2041g