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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Malotki, Ekkehart, author.     Subjects     Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Antiquities.     Petroglyphs -- West (U.S.)     Picture-writing -- West (U.S.)     Rock paintings -- West (U.S.)     West (U.S.) -- Antiquities.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Malotki, Ekkehart, author.       by title:      Early rock art of th...         MARC Display

Early rock art of the American West : the geometric enigma / Ekkehart Malotki, Ellen Dissanayake. by Malotki, Ekkehart, author. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018] Subjects Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Antiquities.   Petroglyphs -- West (U.S.)   Picture-writing -- West (U.S.)   Rock paintings -- West (U.S.)   West (U.S.) -- Antiquities. ISBN:  9780295743615 paperback ; alkaline paper 0295743611 paperback ; alkaline paper Description:  xiv, 298 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm Contents:  Introduction / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake -- The concept of artification / Ellen Dissanayake -- Terminology, chronology, and dating of North American paleomarks / Ekkehart Malotki -- Cupules as an archetypal artification / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake -- Ancestral minds and the spectrum of symbol / Ellen Dissanayake -- Sites and styles of the western archaic tradition rock art complex / Ekkehart Malotki -- Origins and functions of abstract-geometric markings / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake -- Why did our ancestors artify? / Ellen Dissanayake -- Conclusion: the geometric enigma / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake. Requests:  0 Summary:  The earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until now, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety. Why did they precede representational marks? What is known about their origins and functions? Why and how did humans begin to make marks, and what does this practice tell us about the early human mind? With some two hundred striking color images and discussions of chronology, dating, sites, and styles, this pioneering investigation of abstract geometrics on stone (as well as bone, ivory, and shell) explores its wide-ranging subject from the perspectives of ethnology, evolutionary biology, cognitive archaeology, and the psychology of artmaking. The authors' approach instills a greater respect for a largely unknown and underappreciated form of paleoart, suggesting that before humans became Homo symbolicus or even Homo religiosus, they were mark-makers - Homo aestheticus.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 709.0113 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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