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
- 530
- Earliest
- 1670
- to 2026
- Read free
- 17%
- 88 with public full text
- With covers
- 31%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match492
- Metadata match22
- Query match16
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
- Petroglyphs166
- Antiquities115
- Rock paintings77
- Archaeology72
- Rock art62
- Social Sciences61
- Anthropology54
- Art52
- Archeology51
- History49
- Felsbild46
- Physical Sciences42
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies41
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology38
- Sztuka naskalna35
- Earth and Planetary Sciences34
- Geography34
- Art, Prehistoric31
- Bergkunst30
- Geology29
- Paleontology29
- Art pariétal27
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies26
- Pétroglyphes25
Top languages
- English289 · 55%
- German61 · 12%
- French26 · 5%
- Russian19 · 4%
- Spanish18 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Emmanuel Anati7 books
- Henri Lhote6 books
- Paul G. Bahn5 in this tradition7 books
- A. P. Okladnikov5 books
- George Nash5 books
- Harald Pager5 books
- Jo McDonald5 books
- Christopher Chippindale4 in this tradition6 books
- Andrzej Rozwadowski4 in this tradition5 books
- Benjamin Smith4 books
- Bruno David4 books
- José Manuel Rey García4 books
530 books
Study on the rock art at the Yinshan mountains
Xiaokun Wang, Wenjing Zhang
2023
Symbolism in Prehistoric Cultures
Symbolism in Prehistoric Cultures
2002
Symbolism in Rock Art
Fernando Coimbra, Léo Dubal
2008
The Malapais Hill pictograph site, Arizona BB:2:16
Polly Schaafsma
1975
The Museum of South African Rock Art
Hilary J. Bruce
1976
The Nasca lines
Eduardo Herrán
1985
The art of the stone age
Hans-Georg Bandi
1970
The cave explorer
Kate Winter
2025
The cave of Lascaux
Mario Ruspoli, Yves Coppens
1986
The cave painters
Gregory Curtis
2007
The dawn of European art
André Leroi-Gourhan
1982
The future of rock art
Ulf Bertilsson, Louise McDermott
2004
The northern rock art tradition in central Norway
Kalle Sognnes
2017
The prehistoric rock art of Kilmartin
Stan Beckensall
2005
The rock pictures of Europe
Herbert Kühn
1956
The rock-pictures of Lower Nubia
J. H. Dunbar
1941
The secret of the desert
Gabriele Lutz, Rüdiger Lutz
1995
Trance and transfiguration in rock art and literature
Richard Alan Northover
2026
Who's who in rock art
Ariela Fradkin Anati
1996
La peinture prehistorique Lascaux ou la naissance de l'art
Georges Bataille
1955French
Prehistoric cave art in northern Spain Asturias
Magín Berenguer
[198-]]
Aboriginal rock art and the telling of history
Laura Rademaker, Sally May, Gabriel Maralngurra, Joakim Goldhahn
2024
African rock art
David Coulson, Alexander Colin Campbell
2001
Afrikaanse rotskunst
Anneliese Scherz
1976Dutch