Edited by Bansi Lal Malla and V H Sonawane (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Introduction. I. Understanding rock art in a Universal frame: 1. What makes rock art Universal/Baidyanath Saraswati. 2. Rock art: a universal creative act./S.C. Malik. II. Country report: 3. Rock art in Guizhou, China/Zhong Lun Chou. 4. An up to date picture of Indian rock art/Yashodhar Mathpal. 5. Petrogplyphs from raisen and adjoining areas in Madhya Pradesh/S.K. Pandey and Pradeep Shukla. 6. Rock art in Kumaon Himalaya/M.P. Joshi. 7. Sahibee valley: a new rock art region in north-east Rajasthan/Murari Lal Sharma. 8. Rock art of Orissa: a case study of the Lekhamoda group of rock-shelters/Sadasiba Pradhan. 9. Rock art in Tamil Nadu/K.Rajan. 10. The bovid rock art of the north-west Hejaz/Bill Jobling. 11. Rock art of Saudi Arabia: its distribution and characteristics/Majeed Khan. 12. Why the ancient Chinese artists carved on rocks/Yang Zhen. III. Cross cultural comparison: 13. Cross cultural pictures/John K. Clegg and Sugandha. 14. Indigenous and Europeans in the rocks of Cerro Colorado in the province of Cordoba, Argentina/Juana A. Martin De Zurita. 15. Development of Buddhist rock art carving in China/Wang Jin-dong. IV. Environment management conservation and documentation: 16. The key problems in the study of rock art: the Indian case/Giriraj Kumar. 17. The conservation of prehistoric rock art in France: a few examples/Jacques Burnet and Pierre Vidal. 18. On the preservation of Zuojing rock paintings/Jiang Tingyu. 19. Precision in documentation of rock art: the methodological approach/Somnath Chakraverty and Asok K. Ghosh. 20. Applications of underwater archaeological tools and techniques for the study and documentation of rock art/Alok Tripathi. 21. Photography and rock art: towards a new professionalism/R. Paul Firnhaber. 22. The case for the wider use of three dimensional rock art replicas/K.S. Smibert. V. Classification chronology and standardisation: 23. Rock art in Indian prehistory/V.H. Sonawane. 24. Unique paintings from Southern Rajasthan/Erwin Neumayer. 25. New approaches in rock art discipline/Osaga Odak. 26. Lascaux: composition or accumulation/Paul G. Bahn. 27. Four types of rock art in China/Chen Zhao Fu. VI. Consideration of context: 28. The functional notion of context in the description interpretation and recording of rock art/Paul Bouissac. 29. Arche-texts: lascaux, eros and the anamorphic subject/Akira Mizuta Lippit. VII. Form content and interpretation: 30. Early man at Bhimbetka/Bansi Lal Malla. 31. Symmetry and rhythm in primitive Indian rock paintings/B.R. Mani. 32. Creativity, communicability and aesthetic appreciation of pre and proto historic central Indian rock paintings/Indu Dhar Dwivedi. 33. Prehistoric modern and contemporary ethnographic rock art of Kenya/Osaga Odak. 34. Andean popular religiosity and its relation to rock art in Bolivia/Roy Querejazu Lewis. 35. A Saharan example in rock art symbolism: the engraved ovaloids of the Messak South Western Fezzan (Libya)/Jean Loic Le Quellec. 36. Objects and their representations pictorial and linguistic/J.B. Deregowski. 37. Stone reliefs in Wu Family's Graveyard: a representative of China's stone reliefs in Han dynasty/Luo Chenglie and Zhang Peicheng. 38. Indian prehistoric rock art : few observations/L.S. Rao. 39. Morphology and meanings of the Edakal rock engravings/Rajan Gurukkal. VIII. Music: 40. Music and musical instruments in Indian rock art/Erwin Neumayer. 41. Musical depiction in the rock paintings of the Pachmarhi hills in Central India/Meenakshi Dubey Pathak. 42. Musical subjects on rock art of middle Asia/V. Meshkeris. 43. Rock art and sound: basic problems/Danica Stassikova Stukoska. 44. Methods and aims of music archaeology in relation to rock art./Ellen Hickmann. IX. Artificial intelligence and rock art research: 45. The contribution of rock art research to artificial intelligence: lessons from the IGNCA workshop 1991/Jean Claude Gardin. 46. Dater: artificial intelligence approach to dating/S. Bharati, D. Krishna.