Discovering North American rock art

Loendorf, Lawrence L. (Added Author). Chippindale, Christopher, 1951- (Added Author). Whitley, David S. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0816524831 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780816524839 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
x, 334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-320) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The discovery of North American rock art and its meanings / Lawrence L. Loendorf, Christopher Chippindale, David S. Whitley -- Aisinai'pi (writing-on-stone) in traditional, anthropological, and popular thought / Michael A. Klassen -- Rock art research in the American Southwest / Todd W. Bostwick -- Images in darkness : prehistoric cave art in Southeastern North America / Jan F. Simek, Alan Cressler -- Rock art of the central Mississippi River Valley : an overview and discussion / Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan -- In small cupules forgotten : rock markings, archaeology, and ethnography in the deep South / Johannes H. N. Loubser -- In Steward's shadow : histories of research in the far West and Western Europe / David S. Whitley, Jean Clottes -- Pictographs, petroglyphs, and paradigms : rock art in North American archaeology / Julie Francis -- From fertility shrines to sacred landscapes : a critical review of gendered rock art research in the Western United States / Kelley Hays-Gilpin -- Leader of the pack : government sponsorship of rock art research / James D. Keyser -- The role of avocational archaeologists in rock art research / William D. Hyder, Lawrence L. Loendorf -- Dating studies of prehistoric pictographs in North America / Marvin W. Rowe.