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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Petroglyphs"”.
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How to do things with petroglyphs: the rock art of Nevada
The focus of this thesis is the rock art of Nevada, a state in the western United States. While the previously dominant models of rock art interpretation (hunting-magic and shamanism) have produced significant bodies of research, I argue that both are based on faulty Anthropological theory and …
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Poiesis
… cave art, continuing with Native American petroglyphs and pictographs, and concluding with three contemporary visual artists whose marks have influenced my work: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, and Susan Rothenberg. Finally, my artistic process is explained through references to the …
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"That Ancient People": Exploring an Ideology of Rock Art at Tsul'Kalu Rock
… to make sense of the 1,548 Cherokee-made petroglyphs on Tsul’Kalu Rock; positioning the Cherokee as people of a past time. Moreover, this thesis looks at how language on an individual level, a discursive level, and a bureaucratic level work together to contribute to an adverse othering of …
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Lichen: the challenge for rock art conservation
… have on rock surfaces in which ancient rock art (petroglyphs and pictographs) may be found. The study area includes four sites in the United States: one quartzite site in southwest Minnesota, two sandstone sites in Wyoming, and one volcanic site in Central New Mexico. One additional granitic site …
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Rock Imagery: A Cultural Landscape Analysis in the Yakima Uplands
… digitally enhanced images of the pictographs and petroglyphs. Thus, providing YTC cultural resource managers a standard baseline with which to assess these sites later on. The cultural landscape surrounding the rock imagery was examined using a viewshed analysis to make a connection between …
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HIDDEN IN THE COAT: GEOMICROBIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF ROCK ART ECOSYSTEMS AND CHALLENGES FOR THEIR SUSTAINABLE PRESERVATION
… In Oman we sampled rock varnish adjacent to petroglyphs on the same boulder, and obtained weathering, microbial activity and radiocarbon dating information that gave us a limit ante quem for the making of engravings to establish a proposed chronology of past events, meanwhile keeping the …
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Walking Toronto's Red Road: The Story Pathways of Indigenous Social Workers
… raised. ‘Somewhere between the significance of petroglyphs and carving your name into wet cement, these story landmarks will guide us in a journey through the relationship Indigenous social workers have with their profession,’ he says, slinking his way down the page. ‘Guided by an Indigenous …
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The politics of production of archaeological knowledge :a case study of the later stone age rock art paintings of Kasam, Northern Zambia
The main purpose of this study was to investigate and examined the politics in the production of archaeological knowledge especially in rock art, at academic, heritage institutions and national and global level. It aims to trace and examine the development and movement of particular hypotheses or …
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Human conceptualisations of non-human animals in the Scandinavian Bronze Age: perspectives from Swedish rock carvings
This dissertation explores human-animal relationships during the Bronze Age in Scandinavia (1800-500BC cal) through the lens of Southern Tradition (ST) rock art from Sweden. Over this period, tens of thousands of figures were carved into the exposed bedrock of the coastal region, including a …