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Current research in the rock art of the eastern Sahara : in memory of Dirk Huyge (1957-2018) : proceedings of a session of the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018 in Valcamonica, Italy / edited by Frank Förster, Maria Carmela Gatto, Paolo Medici, Paweł Lech Polkowski and Gunnar Sperveslage.
Penn Museum Library GN799.P4 C87 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Rock Art Congress (20th : 2018 : Darfo Boario Terme, Italy) http://viaf.org/viaf/692157040160867040006, author.
- Series:
- Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie ; v. 27.
- IBAES, Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie = Studies from the internet on Egyptology and Sudanarchaeology ; vol. 27
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Huyge, D. (Dirk).
- Huyge, D.
- Rock paintings--Sahara--Congresses.
- Rock paintings.
- Petroglyphs--Sahara--Congresses.
- Petroglyphs.
- Art, Prehistoric--Sahara--Congresses.
- Art, Prehistoric.
- Genre:
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Golden House Publications, 2025.
- Summary:
- This volume presents key findings from the 20th International Rock Art Congress, focusing on the rock art of the Eastern Sahara, particularly Egypt and Sudan. Papers explore regional overviews, rock art's relationship with the landscape, stylistic diversity, and symbolic meanings, with contributions focused on the Western Desert and Nubian rock art, as well as thematic, chronological and stylistic analyses. These papers highlight the dynamic interactions between environmental contexts, artistic expressions, and cultural exchanges, providing new insights into the ancient societies of the Eastern Sahara. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Dirk Huyge (1957-2018).
- Contents:
- A life on the rocks: Dirk Huyge (1957-1018) and the development of rock art research in Egypt / Wouter Claes, Stan Hendrickx and Mofgan De Dapper
- The emergence of a artistic canon at the Tamada Discontinuity (Ennedi, Chad) / Alessandro Menardi Noguera
- The Jebel Uweinat Rock Art Survey: achievements of the past 20 years / Andras Zboray, Mark Borda, Flavio Cambieri, Alessandro Menardi Noguera and Maria Emilia Peroschi
- Humour in rock art: a cat-and-mouse scene in the Dakhla Region, Egypt / Frank Förster
- The pubic triangle motif in the rock art of the western desert of Egpt / Paweł Lech Polkowski
- Sex on the rocks? Discourse and intercourse in rock art / Salima Ikram
- Setting a seal upon the desert: protodynastic and early dynastic augmentation and interpretation of predynastic rock art in the upper Egyptian deserts / John Coleman Darnell and Dorian Vanhulle (with the assistance of Axelle Brémont, Alberto Urcia and Colleen Manassa Darnell)
- The Hierakonpolis petroglyphs: chronology, attribution and interpretation / Fritz E.G. Hardtke and Renée Friedman
- Recent rock art documentation in Gebel el-Silsila - Shatt el-Rigal: stylistic diversity and spatial distribution / Maria Nilsson and John Ward
- 'Hippopotamus hunt' petroglyphs from the Nile Valley and surrounding deserts as symbolic images of prestige / Sebastián Francisco Maydana
- The boat as a liminal object in Egypt's eastern desert / Francis D. Lankester
- Perceiving context, understanding rock art: the case of the First Cataract Region of the Nile / Maria Carmela Gatto and Antonio Curci
- A 'Nubian touch?' - a rock art perpective on culture contacts in the First Cataract Area during the fourth millennium BCE / Axelle Brémont and Dorian Vanhulle
- GIS and rock art: spatial analysis of selected Nubian rock art sites and their landscape / Serena Nicolini.
- Notes:
- Proceedings of Session 2B of the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018, held August 29 to September 2, 2018 in Valcamonica/Darfo Boario Terme, Italy.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781906137953
- 1906137951
- OCLC:
- 1529914249
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