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Round heads : the earliest rock paintings in the Sahara / Jitka Soukopova.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soukopova, Jitka.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rock paintings--Sahara.
- Rock paintings.
- Painting, Prehistoric--Sahara.
- Painting, Prehistoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Central Sahara is considered the greatest "museum" of rock art in the world, containing several thousand prehistoric and recent images. The oldest paintings, called Round Heads, originated during a humid phase in the 10th millennium before present and they were created by dark-skinned hunter-gatherers living in the Algerian and Libyan mountains. Rock shelters show mainly anthropomorphic figures with body paintings and other embellishments testifying ancient rituals and ceremonies. Only t...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-4579-5
- OCLC:
- 827209119
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