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Ancient visions : petroglyphs and pictographs from the Wind River and Bighorn country, Wyoming and Montana / Julie E. Francis, Lawrence L. Loendorf.
Penn Museum Library E78.W95 F735 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Francis, Julie E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Wyoming--Wind River Basin--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.)--Antiquities.
- Petroglyphs--Wyoming--Wind River Basin.
- Petroglyphs.
- Petroglyphs--Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.).
- Rock paintings--Wyoming--Wind River Basin.
- Rock paintings.
- Rock paintings--Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.).
- Antiquities.
- Wind River Basin (Wyo.)--Antiquities.
- Wind River Basin (Wyo.).
- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.)--Antiquities.
- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.).
- Wyoming--Wind River Basin.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- The first book to fully consider the stunning body of ancient art from this region.
- Contents:
- 1. Ancient Images: Diversity and Complexity 1
- 2. The Bighorn and Wind River Basins 5
- The Physical Environment
- The Cultural Environment
- 3. Rock "Art"? 19
- The Shamanistic Hypothesis
- Visionary Perspectives
- Metaphors of the Imagery
- 4. Style and Classification 33
- Early Investigations
- Previous Treatments of Style
- Classification, Style, and Tradition
- 5. So How Old Is It? 48
- Advances in Dating Techniques
- Dating the Prehistoric Imagery of the Bighorn and Wind River Basins
- 6. On the Western Front: The Dinwoody Tradition 69
- Settings
- Manufacturing Techniques
- En Toto Pecked Figure Types
- The Dinwoody Tradition
- Ethnographic Perspectives and Interpretations
- 7. Looking East: Incised, Painted, and Outline-Pecked Imagery 125
- Shield-Bearing Warriors and V-Shouldered Anthropomorphs
- Other Human Representations
- Inanimate and Abstract Designs
- Historic Period Imagery
- 8. Contrasting Pictures and New Views of the Past 184
- Chronological Comparisons
- Spatial Distributions and Boundaries
- 9. Sacred and Scientific Places for the Future 196.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0874806925
- OCLC:
- 47665576
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