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Portable and Parietal Art of Kamyana Mohyla, Ukraine
2023Kamyana Mohyla is Ukraine's largest and most prominent rock art complex and is located at least one thousand kilometers from other comparable rock art sites. Situated on the western edge of the Eurasian Steppe belt, the site shows prehistoric imagery from several different contexts-some of its engravings are considered in the frame of European rock art,
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Palaeolithic Parietal Art and its Topographical Context.
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1991Our purpose is to examine the hypothesis that Palaeolithic parietal image sites in south-west Europe model or map a specific area of the terrain around them in so far as that terrain was useful to the people who made the images. So far as we are aware the hypothesis has not received wide attention (Eastham 1979; Kehoe 1990).
null Michael, Anne Eastham
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The parietal art of the Late Magdalenian
Antiquity, 1990While lively debate has gone on about the meaning and function of Palaeolithic parietal art, the intractable and essential questions of its dating have been less in the foreground. With Leroi-Gourhan's interpretations goes his identification of styles and their chronology, published in 1965.
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Water Mythology and the distribution of Palaeolithic Parietal Art
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1978In recent years there has been a refreshing move away from simplistic interpretations of Palaeolithic art: few scholars still adhere to the view of ‘art for art's sake’ or ‘totemism’, although many are reluctant to abandon the formerly dominant theory of ‘hunting magic’.
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The Hidden Meaning of Forms: Methods of Recording Paleolithic Parietal Art
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2007There are many restrictions placed on researchers studying Paleolithic Cave art due to the constraints of conservation that limit direct contact with the original works. This paper discusses how recent advances in technology have revolutionized the study and interpretation of Paleolithic cave art. The interpretation of Paleolithic symbolic systems is a
Fritz, Carole, Tosello, Gilles
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