Shepherds Who Write: Pastoral graffiti in the uplands of Europe from prehistory to the modern age - Couverture souple

 
9781407357140: Shepherds Who Write: Pastoral graffiti in the uplands of Europe from prehistory to the modern age
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ISBN 10 : 140735714X ISBN 13 : 9781407357140
Editeur : BAR Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

In a number of significant sites of the vast ancient pasturelands of the Old World, generations of wandering shepherds have left their testimony in the form of graffiti drafted on the rocks, sometimes in their tens of thousands, over a period of hundreds of years from ancient to modern times. The phenomenon is a conspicuous one, and has considerable significance for two reasons. On the one hand, the study of such pastoral graffiti may convey fresh ethnoarchaeological information as to the circumstances of the pastoral activities and the pastoral economy of the past. On the other hand, these signs, which can be often fully alphabetic as well as drawing upon ancient symbolic repertoires, can be of some aid in the interpretation of rock art as a whole genre of human expression, and projected back, in their significance and their modes of appearance, the earliest times of prehistory.

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À propos de l?auteur

Marta Bazzanella and Giovanni Kezich

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Éditeur
BAR Publishing
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
140735714X
ISBN 13 
9781407357140
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Éditeur
Kezich Giovanni, Bazzanella Marta
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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