Rock art of the Caribbean:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press ©2009
Series:Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Rock Art within the Bahamian Archipelago; 3. History, Survey, Conservation, and Interpretation of Cuban Rock Art; 4. Sacred Landscapes: Imagery, Iconography, and Ideology in Jamaican Rock Art; 5. Caring for the Spirit Helpers: Recording, Graffiti Removal, Interpretation, and Management of the Warminster/Genus Rockshelter, Jamaica; 6. The Rock Images of Haiti: A Living Heritage; 7. Rock Art Studies in the Dominican Republic; 8. Rock Art of the Dominican Republic and Caribbean; 9. Rock Art of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition. Thorough and comparative, it includes data on the history of rock graphic research, the nature of the assemblages (image numbers, types, locations), and the legal, conservation, and research status of the image sites.¡Chapters on these topics cover research on the islands of Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Aruba, and Bonaire.¡The
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 285 pages)
ISBN:0817381597
9780817381592

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