دانلود کتاب Weapons and Tools in Rock Art: A World Perspective

Weapons and tools are frequently found depicted in rock art in many parts of the globe and different periods and in varying social contexts. This collection of papers by leading rock art specialists examines the subjective and metaphorical value of weapons and tools in art, the actions that created them, and their contexts. It also takes into account that such representations incorporate and transmit some kind of understanding about the world and the relationship between objects and humans. Contributors analyse objects and weapons as status symbols, as evidences of cultural contacts, as ideological devices, etc. Divided into regional sections which, for once, do not focus on Scandinavia, chapters deal with the representations of weapons and certain kinds of tools (such as axes and sickles) in different prehistoric, protohistoric and traditional community contexts all over the world. Attention focuses on rock art, but also looks at stelae and statue-menhirs, as well as other kinds of ‘container’ or vehicle for this kind of depiction.The major concern is to discuss the possible meanings of these embodied signs in different areas and periods, since meanings are permeable both to time and space. Papers either centre their attention in broader approaches based on a specific area, region or people, or focus on particular case studies.Table of ContentsApproaches to engraved meanings and significances of weapons and tools in rockart (Introduction)Ana M. S. Bettencourt, Manuel-Santos-Estévez and Hugo Aluai Sampaio1. Weaponry in Levantine Rock ArtManuel Bea Martínez2. Megaliths and weapon's representations. A view of the birth of warrior’s imagesBarroso-Bermejo, R., Bueno-Ramírez, P., Balbín- Behrmann, R. de, Linares-Catela, J.A.,Mora-Molina, C., Vera-Rodriguez, J.C3. The procession of weapons. Ritual Landscape in Late PrehistoryManuel Santos-Estévez4. West Iberian Bronze Age weapons in carved places: some ideas for its ontologyAna M. S. Bettencourt5. Representations of warriors and weapons in Swedish Rock Art - context andchronologyUlf Bertilsson6. The image of tools and the metaphor of lifeShemsi Krasniqi7. Ancient rites as evidenced in the representation of weapons and tools in a rock arttradition in Northern GreeceStella Pilavaki.8. Not what it seems: approach to Northwestern West of Iberia weapons and toolsrock art depictions and modern storytelling serving touristic and educational purposesHugo Aluai Sampaio9. Horsemen’s Weaponry in Rock Art of Jebel Rat (High Atlas, Morocco). Signs of asocial elite?Alessandra Bravin10. The representations of weapons and objects in the rock art of TunisiaJaafar Ben Nasr11. Tools and weapons in African Rock ArtAugustin Holl12. Painted for War: rock art depictions of archers with arrow head-dresses in theEastern Cape, South AfricaBrent Sinclair Thomson13. Symbolic and ritual significance of weapons in Western North American rockimagesDavid Whitley14.Weapons and war related objects in Guachipas rock art (Salta, Argentina)María Pía Falchi15. The representations of rock art weapons in hunting scenes from Serra da CapivaraNational Park - Northeast BrazilLeonardo Borges; Daniela Cisneiros, Hércules Costa and Nathália Nogueira.16. Weapons and rock art engravings, a case study of wary filiation in the Quenetosite, Viru Valley, PeruMaría Susana Barrau ; Daniel S. Castillo Benítez,17. The picturing of weapons and other objects at stenciled and painted rock art sitesPatricia Dobrez