Tradition 30 of 33
Rock art, geoglyphs, and ancient symbols
Petroglyphs, pictographs, rock and cave art, geoglyphs, the Nazca lines, megalithic art, and interpretations of ancient symbolic landscapes.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 398
- Earliest
- 1848
- to 2026
- Read free
- 7%
- 27 with public full text
- With covers
- 26%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match378
- Metadata match20
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Petroglyphs135
- Antiquities102
- Archaeology70
- Rock paintings64
- Rock art61
- Social Sciences61
- Anthropology53
- Archeology51
- Art48
- History48
- Felsbild46
- Physical Sciences42
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies41
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology38
- Sztuka naskalna35
- Earth and Planetary Sciences34
- Geography34
- Bergkunst30
- Geology29
- Paleontology28
- Art pariétal27
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies26
- Art, Prehistoric26
- Pétroglyphes25
Top languages
- English238 · 60%
- German22 · 6%
- French20 · 5%
- Russian17 · 4%
- Spanish16 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- Emmanuel Anati7 books
- Paul G. Bahn5 in this tradition7 books
- A. P. Okladnikov5 books
- Henri Lhote5 books
- Jo McDonald5 books
- Christopher Chippindale4 in this tradition6 books
- Andrzej Rozwadowski4 in this tradition5 books
- Benjamin Smith4 books
- George Nash4 books
- Harald Pager4 books
- José Manuel Rey García4 books
- Polly Schaafsma4 books
398 books
- Read free
A Comprehensive Survey of Rock Art in Upper Tibet
John Vincent Bellezza
2023
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Dreamtime Superhighway (TA27)
Jo McDonald
2008
- Read free
The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia (Terra Australis 47)
Bruno David, Jean-Michel Geneste, Paul Tacon, Paul S.C. Taçon, Jean‐Jacques Delannoy
2017
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Lords of the Mountains
Harald Hauptmann, Luca Maria Olivieri
2024
- Read free
Abstractions Based on Circles
Paul Frodsham
2022
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Deep-Time Images in the Age of Globalization
Oscar Moro Abadía, Margaret W Conkey, Josephine McDonald
2024
- Read free
Histories of Australian Rock Art Research
Ursula K Frederick, Sally K May, Jo McDonald, Mr Paul S.C Taçon
2022
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Drawing in the Land
Julie Dibden
2019
Introduction to Rock Art Research
David S. Whitley
2005
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L’arte armena. Storia critica e nuove prospettive
Ferrari, Aldo | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-, Riccioni, Stefano | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-, Marco Ruffilli, Beatrice Spampinato
2020
Ontologies of Rock Art
Óscar Moro Abadía, Martin Porr
2021
Aesthetics and rock art
Thomas Heyd, John Clegg
2005
Shamans/neo-Shamans
Robert J. Wallis
2003
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Rock inscriptions in Brazil.
John Casper Branner
1884
Art, Shamanism and Animism
Max Carocci, Robert J Wallis
2022
The mind in the cave
J. David Lewis-Williams, David Lewis-Williams
2002
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"Bubalin" und "Bovidien" in Südmarokko
Renate Heckendorf
2008German
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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art
Bruno David, Ian J. McNiven, Mélanie Duval, Christophe Gauchon, Benjamin Smith
2017
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Shamanism and the Evolution of Gynocentric Symbolism
Yoav Levin
2025
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Exploring Ancient Sounds and Places: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Archaeoacoustics
Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Neemias Santos da Rosa
2026
The message of the engraved stones of Ica
Javier Cabrera Darquea
2000
Wise blood
Flannery O'Connor
1952
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Cova Eirós. Primeras evidencias de arte rupestre Paleolítico en el Noroeste Peninsular
Arturo de Lombera-Hermida, Ramón Fábregas Valcarce
2025
PICTURES IN PLACE: THE FIGURED LANDSCAPES OF ROCK-ART; ED. BY CHRISTOPHER CHIPPINDALE
George Nash, Christopher Chippindale
2004