Early rock art of the American west : the geometric enigma /

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Author / Creator:	Malotki, Ekkehart, author.
Imprint:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language:	English
Subject:	Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Antiquities. Petroglyphs -- West (U.S.) Picture-writing -- West (U.S.) Rock paintings -- West (U.S.) Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Petroglyphs. Picture-writing. Rock paintings. West (U.S.) -- Antiquities. West United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12282488

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Other authors / contributors:	Dissanayake, Ellen, author.
ISBN:	9780295743622 029574362X 9780295743608
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2018).
Other form:	Print version: Malotki, Ekkehart. Early rock art of the American west. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2018 9780295743608

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake
The concept of artification / Ellen Dissanayake
Terminology, chronology, and dating of North American paleomarks / Ekkehart Malotki
Cupules as an archetypal artification / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake
Ancestral minds and the spectrum of symbol / Ellen Dissanayake
Sites and styles of the western archaic tradition rock art complex / Ekkehart Malotki
Origins and functions of abstract-geometric markings / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake
Why did our ancestors artify? / Ellen Dissanayake
Conclusion: the geometric enigma / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake.

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