History of art: pre-history books

568 books were found.

San Rock Art

San Rock Art

Author: J.D. Lewis-Williams
ISBN: 9780821420454
Format: Paperback
$44.75

San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest...  Read More >>

The Levantine Question: Post-Palaeolithic Rock Art in the Iberian Peninsula

The Levantine Question: Post-Palaeolithic Rock Art in...

Author: George Nash ,  Jose Julio Garcia Arranz
ISBN: 9789639911314
Format: Hardback
$327.36

This volume gathers many of the world's leading experts to reassess the enigmatic assemblage of Spanish Levantine...  Read More >>

Round Heads: The Earliest Rock Paintings in the Sahara

Round Heads: The Earliest Rock Paintings in the Sahara...

Author: Jitka Soukopova
ISBN: 9781299645608
Format: Electronic book text
$190.50

The Central Sahara is considered the greatest museum of rock art in the world, containing several thousand prehistoric...  Read More >>

Wallfahrer aus dem Osten- Mittelalterliche Pilgerzeichen zwischen Ostsee, Donau und Seine: "Beitraege der Tagung ""Perspektiven der europaeischen Pilgerzeichenforschung"", 21. bis 24. April 2010 in Prag-"

Wallfahrer aus dem Osten- Mittelalterliche Pilgerzeichen...

Author: Hartmut Kühne ,  Hartmut Kühne
ISBN: 9783631621479
Format: Hardback
$171.03

Beiträge einer Tagung 2010 in Prag, deren Ziel die Weiterentwicklung der europäischen Zusammenarbeit bei der Erforschung...  Read More >>

Animal Motifs from Around the World: 140 Designs for Artists & Craftspeople

Animal Motifs from Around the World: 140 Designs for...

Author: Doris Rosenthal
ISBN: 9781306324267
Format: Undefined
$34.19

Drawn from the ancient art and artifacts of an international array of museum collections, this spectacular volume...  Read More >>

Rock Art and Seascapes in Uppland

Rock Art and Seascapes in Uppland

Author: Johan Ling
ISBN: 9781842175132
Format: Paperback
$64.69

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Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge

Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge

Author: M. Rosengren
ISBN: 9781137271969
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Using the example of prehistoric paintings discovered in the late 19th century in Spain and France Cave Art, Perception...  Read More >>

The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West

The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West...

Author: Elizabeth J. Milleker
ISBN: 9780300194067
Format: Paperback
$264.00

Two thousand years ago, artworks of astonishing variety were being created in far-flung regions of the world. Although...  Read More >>

Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne

Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves...

Author: Christine Desdemaines-Hugon ,  Ian Tattersall
ISBN: 9780300188028
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Well-written and eminently accessible, this book explores and celebrates the Upper Palaeolithic art of the Dordogne,...  Read More >>

A Companion to Rock Art

A Companion to Rock Art

Author: Jo McDonald (Australian National University) ,  Peter Veth (Australian National University)
ISBN: 9781444334241
Format: Hardback
$317.95

* Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars * Includes new research...  Read More >>

Dahnmon's Fantastic Dream

Dahnmon's Fantastic Dream

Author: Colonel Charles Dahnmon Whitt
ISBN: 9781624070730
Format: Paperback
$26.40

After taking new sleeping pills, the author was transcended back in time to the deep woods of western Virginia to...  Read More >>

Re-Inventing Tokyo: Japan's Largest City in the Artistic Imagination

Re-Inventing Tokyo: Japan's Largest City in the Artistic...

Author: Samuel C. Morse ,  Trent Maxey
ISBN: 9780914337355
Format: Paperback
$100.78

A groundbreaking examination of artists' portrayals of Tokyo from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.  Read More >>

Discovering South Carolina's Rock Art

Discovering South Carolina's Rock Art

Author: Tommy Charles
ISBN: 9786613891655
Format: Electronic book text
$94.88

For years Tommy Charles scoured South Carolina's upcountry for examples of ancient rock art carvings and paintings,...  Read More >>

Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes: Themes and Variations from Prehistory to the Present

Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes: Themes...

Author: Mary Strong
ISBN: 9780292754256
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Taking a new approach to traditional Andean art that links prehistory with the present, this book illustrates the...  Read More >>

Prehistoric Rock Art: Polemics and Progress

Prehistoric Rock Art: Polemics and Progress

Author: Paul G. Bahn
ISBN: 9780511761454
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Paul G. Bahn provides a richly illustrated overview of prehistoric rock art and cave art from around the world....  Read More >>

Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors

Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors

Author: Paul Brown ,  Graeme Chappell
ISBN: 9780752468778
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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El Mundo del Arte En San Agustin

El Mundo del Arte En San Agustin

Author: Efrain Sanchez ,  Benjamin Villegas
ISBN: 9789588306704
Format: Hardback
$240.11

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The World of Art in San Agustin

The World of Art in San Agustin

Author: Efrain Sanchez ,  Efraain Saanchez
ISBN: 9789588306711
Format: Hardback
$240.11

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Südamerikanische Felszeichnungen

Südamerikanische Felszeichnungen

Author: Theodor Koch-Grünberg
ISBN: 9780511705854
Format: Undefined
$224.40

The German ethnologist and explorer Koch-Grünberg (1872–1924) accounts for the origin and significance of rock art...  Read More >>

The Rock Art of Lower Nubia (Czechoslovak Concession

The Rock Art of Lower Nubia (Czechoslovak Concession...

Author: Lenka Suková
ISBN: 9788073083939
Format: Hardback
$188.89

The present publication is concerned with the rock art from two sections of the Nile Valley in Lower Nubia surveyed...  Read More >>

European Landscapes of Rock-Art

European Landscapes of Rock-Art

Author: George Nash (University of Bristol) ,  Christopher Chippindale (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781280048227
Format: Electronic book text
$409.20

Rock-art - the ancient images which still scatter the rocky landscapes of Europe - is a singular kind of archaeological...  Read More >>

Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge

Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge

Author: Mats Rosengren (Goteborg University)
ISBN: 9781306092562
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

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Egyptian -type Pottery in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant

Egyptian -type Pottery in the Late Bronze Age Southern...

Author: Martin Mario ,  Yaniv Agmon
ISBN: 9783700171362
Format: Paperback
$403.92

This volume presents a group of Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1130 BCE; 18th-20th Egyptian Dynasties) ceramics in the...  Read More >>

An Animate Landscape: Rock Art and the Prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland

An Animate Landscape: Rock Art and the Prehistory of...

Author: Andrew Meirion Jones ,  Andrew Jones
ISBN: 9781905119417
Format: Paperback
$200.64

The Kilmartin landscape in western Scotland is widely regarded as Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape. It contains...  Read More >>

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