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03740aam a2200517 i 4500 001 F9A63368E96D11E8978F920F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181116010210 008 171023t20182018waua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017050791 020 $a 0295743611 020 $a 9780295743615 020 $a 0295743603 020 $a 9780295743608 035 $a (OCoLC)1007499294 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d ORZ $d YDX $d WLU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usp-- 050 00 $a E78.W5 $b M27 2018 066 $c Zsym 082 00 $a 709.01/130978 $2 23 100 1 $a Malotki, Ekkehart, $e author. 245 10 $a Early rock art of the American West : $b the geometric enigma / $c Ekkehart Malotki, Ellen Dissanayake. 264 1 $a Seattle : $b University of Washington Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xiv, 298 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 26 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 505 0 $a Introduction / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake -- The concept of artification / Ellen Dissanayake -- Terminology, chronology, and dating of North American paleomarks / Ekkehart Malotki -- Cupules as an archetypal artification / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake -- Ancestral minds and the spectrum of symbol / Ellen Dissanayake -- Sites and styles of the western archaic tradition rock art complex / Ekkehart Malotki -- Origins and functions of abstract-geometric markings / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake -- Why did our ancestors artify? / Ellen Dissanayake -- Conclusion: the geometric enigma / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake. 520 8 $a The earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until now, 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 their origins and functions? Why and how did humans begin to make marks, and what does this practice tell us about the early human mind? With some two hundred striking color images and discussions of chronology, dating, sites, and styles, this pioneering investigation of abstract geometrics on stone (as well as bone, ivory, and shell) explores its wide-ranging subject from the perspectives of ethnology, evolutionary biology, cognitive archaeology, and the psychology of artmaking. The authors' approach instills a greater respect for a largely unknown and underappreciated form of paleoart, suggesting that before humans became Homo symbolicus or even Homo religiosus, they were mark-makers - Homo aestheticus. 650 0 $a Indians of North America $z West (U.S.) $x Antiquities. 650 0 $a Petroglyphs $z West (U.S.) 650 0 $a Picture-writing $z West (U.S.) 650 0 $a Rock paintings $z West (U.S.) 651 0 $a West (U.S.) $x Antiquities. 650 7 $a Antiquities. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810745 650 7 $a Indians of North America $x Antiquities. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00969645 650 7 $a Petroglyphs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01059252 650 7 $a Picture-writing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01063814 650 7 $a Rock paintings. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01099256 651 7 $a United States, West. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01243255 700 1 $a Dissanayake, Ellen, $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Malotki, Ekkehart. $t Early rock art of the American west. $d Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2018 $z 9780295743622 $w (DLC) 2017051145 880 4 $6 264-00 $c �2018 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214021924.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190726011931.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F9A63368E96D11E8978F920F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search