Early rock art of the American west : the geometric enigma /
Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake.
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / The concept of artification / Terminology, chronology, and dating of North American paleomarks / Cupules as an archetypal artification / Ancestral minds and the spectrum of symbol / Sites and styles of the western archaic tradition rock art complex / Origins and functions of abstract-geometric markings / Why did our ancestors artify? / Conclusion: the geometric enigma / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake -- Ellen Dissanayake -- Ekkehart Malotki -- Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake -- Ellen Dissanayake -- Ekkehart Malotki -- Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake -- Ellen Dissanayake -- Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake.
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Indians of North America--Antiquities.--West (U.S.) Petroglyphs--West (U.S.) Picture-writing--West (U.S.) Rock paintings--West (U.S.)