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Rock art in the Americas : mythology, cosmogony and rituals : Proceedings of the 2nd REEA Conference, Ritual Americas: configurations and recombining of the ritual devices and behaviors in the New World, in historical and contemporary societies, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), April 2-5, 2008 / edited by Franc̨oise Fauconnier, Serge Lemaitre.
LIBRA GN799.P4 R628 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- BAR international series ; 2448.
- BAR international series ; 2448
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Petroglyphs--North America--Congresses.
- Petroglyphs.
- Petroglyphs--South America--Congresses.
- Rock paintings--North America--Congresses.
- Rock paintings.
- Rock paintings--South America--Congresses.
- North America.
- South America.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 138 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Archaeopress, 2012.
- Language Note:
- Papers in English, Spanish.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Introducción / Françoise Fauconnier and Serge Lemaitre
- Rock art sites as spiritual places? Canadian Shield rock art as part of the Algonquian sacred landscape / Daniel Arsenault
- Thunderbirds and horned snakes: cosmogony at Canadian rock art sites / Serge Lemaitre
- Cueva de la Serpiente: interpretive analysis of an Archaic great mural rock art panel, Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico / Roberto Martínez, Larissa Mendoza and Ramón Viñas
- El Salto del Perro, Durango, México: la construcción de un paisaje sagrado en los confines de Mesoamerica / Fernando Berrojalbiz y Marie-Areti Hers
- Paisaje y petrograbados del sitio de la Ferrería, Durango, México / José Luis Punzo Díaz
- Imágenes de guerreros en el arte rupestre del norte de Michoacán. Una aproximacion a los ritos de los cazadores recolectores del posclásico / Brigitte Faugère
- The Cave of the Bat, a primordial cave of the sun, Acapulco, Mexico / Martha Cabrera Guerrero
- Myths and oral tradition in the study of rock art: high plains of Cundinamarca-Boyaca, past ethnohistory and country folk tradition / Guillermo Muñoz C.
- The rock art of the Bochica Route. Possible connections between oral tradition and sense and function of rock art / Judith Trujillo Téllez
- El arte rupestre del río San Juan del Oro (Bolivia): reflexiones sobre el simbolismo y la función de las imágenes / Françoise Fauconnier.
- Notes:
- "These proceedings are part of a congress held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in April 2008. The congress organized by the Belgian Society of the Americanists was entitled: "Ritual Americas: configurations and recombining of the ritual devices and behaviours in the New World, in historical and contemporary societies"--Introd.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781407310527
- 1407310526
- OCLC:
- 826649096
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