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Rock Art of the Caribbean (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory) pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition. Thorough and comparative, it includes data on the history of rock graphic research, the nature of the assemblages (image numbers, types, locations), and the legal, conservation, and research status of the image sites. Chapters on these topics cover research on the islands of Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Aruba, and Bonaire. The prehispanic rock art and other ceremonial structures and artifacts, along with enthnohistorical accounts of the region at Contact, projected backward in time, all point to an active ritual and ceremonial life involving commoners, religious specialists, and elites in differing and interconnected roles and for diverse purposes. The selective use of common rock graphic design and physical elements can be seen in the distribution and execution of the carved and painted images. Pecked, ground, abraded, and scratched petroglyphs, along with pictographs done frequently in red, black, white and orange hues are found on a range of rock surfaces including limestones, granites, diorites, and andesites. Caves/rock shelters and rock formations associated with water sources (water ways, pools, ocean) account for the two most common locations, followed by ball court sites, inland rock outcroppings and beach rock. In addition to specific area presentations, the work includes a review of recent advances in Caribbean rock graphic studies including dating and interpretative models; the application of a new documentation method and resulting computer manipulation advantages; a conservation project in Jamaica that has implications for the preservation and interpretation of the site; and a proposed dating sequence for the Lesser Antillean Windward Islands. CONTRIBUTORS Philip Allsworth-Jones / Gabriel Atiles Bido / Lesley-Gail Atkinson / Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique / Michael A. Cinquino / Racso Fernandez Ortega / Divaldo A. Gutierrez Calvache / Jay B. Haviser / Michele H. Hayward / Sofia Jonsson Marquet / Harold J. Kelly / George V. Landon / Adolfo Lopez Belando / Johannes Loubser / Gerard Richard / Peter G. Roe / W. Brent Seales / Jose B.Gonzalez Tendero / Ken Wild / John H. Winter / Pedro Alvarado Zayas
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Rock Art of the Caribbean (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory) pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024