Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma

by Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake

Book Overview

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The earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295743611
• ISBN13: 9780295743615
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 10.0"