Rock art and regional identity : a comparative perspective /

Why did the ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean? This careful study of rock art motifs in Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in South Africa, demonstrates that there are archaeological and anthropological ways of accessing the past in order to investigat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hampson, Jamie, 1973- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2015]
Subjects:	Indians of North America > Trans-Pecos (Tex. and N.M.) > Antiquities. Indigenous peoples > South Africa > Mpumalanga > Antiquities. Rock paintings > Trans-Pecos (Tex. and N.M.) Rock paintings > South Africa > Mpumalanga. Regionalism > Trans-Pecos (Tex. and N.M.) > History > To 1500. Regionalism > South Africa > Mpumalanga > History > To 1500. Group identity > Trans-Pecos (Tex. and N.M.) > History > To 1500. Group identity > South Africa > Mpumalanga > History > To 1500. Trans-Pecos (Tex. and N.M.) > Antiquities. Mpumalanga (South Africa) > Antiquities. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.

Table of Contents:

Setting the scene : rock art and regional identity
Trans-Pecos Texas as a rock art region : developing an interpretive framework
Rock art regions in theory and in practice : a comparative case study from Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
An ethnographic approach to the Trans-Pecos rock art region
Widely distributed, regional, or rare? : six diagnostic Trans-Pecos motifs
Transformation and embodiment in the Trans-Pecos region
Reassessing the rock art region : a way forward
Appendix: Trans-Pecos people and artefacts through time : a brief overview.