scholarly journals الأوضاع التعبدية التي أظهرها الفن الصخري في مصر وشمال أفريقيا خلال العصر الحجري الحديث The Worship Statuses Through the Rock Art in Egypt and North Africa During the Neolithic Period

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-50
Author(s):  
زينب عبد التواب رياض خميس
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Neolithic Period

scholarly journals Approaches to Visibility and Strategical Control of the Sierra Harana Schematic Rock Art (Granada, Spain)

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Marcos Fernández Ruiz ◽  
Fernando Corbacho Gadella ◽  
Liliana Spanedda ◽  
Alberto Dorado Alejos
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Strong Link ◽  
Water Springs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hydrographic Network ◽  
Rock Shelters

An approach about territorial control and mobility in Sierra Harana (Granada, Spain) during Late Prehistory is presented in this paper, according to rock shelters with schematic rock art distribution. Different aspects have been analysed by using tools provided by Geographic Information Systems (GIS): the relationship between rock shelters and hydrographic network and water springs, and, mainly, their visual control. The association between rock shelters with schematic rock art and burial caves use during the Neolithic period is observed in the study area. A strong link between rock shelters and traditional pathways is also attested. These facts can be read as a way to mark symbolically certain routes that could be aimed to short transhumance practice. 

The Chronology and Significance of Ablation in the Later Stone Age Maghreb

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle De Groote ◽  
Louise T. Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Systematic Practice

This chapter described the earliest evidence of the systematic practice of ablation. Purposeful removal of the upper central incisors became a widespread practice with the Iberomaurusian of the Later Stone Age in the Maghreb region—the area of current-day northern Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. During the Capsian times, ablation became less prevalent, but in some cases all incisors and canines were removed. During the Neolithic period the practice became even less frequent and in some areas disappeared completely. Nevertheless, in some regions of North Africa ablation remained common and may have been a way of identifying certain tribes or individuals within society. This chapter also considers possible causes for the origin of the practice.

scholarly journals The Archaeology of Rock Art in Northern Africa

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Savino di Lernia
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
North African ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Environmental Setting

The first reports on the rock art of north Africa were written in the mid-nineteenth century. Since then, rock art has become a key area of African archaeological research. Commencing with a short background on the environmental setting, this chapter reviews past research and major theoretical perspectives through to the present, highlighting contributions to wider debates. The main geographical, temporal, and archaeological frameworks of north African rock art are summarized in broad chronological order, beginning with late Pleistocene engravings up to ‘Camel art’ of more recent, historical age. Despite current hurdles faced in today’s research environment, rock art studies are of great importance in north Africa, especially when undertaken by African scholars. This precious, irreplaceable, nonrenewable cultural resource is of great educational value, and its preservation, teaching, and dissemination may contribute to a renewed awareness of the cultural value of rock art for future generations.

scholarly journals Rock Carvings of Armenia

2017 ◽  
pp. 61-83
Author(s):  
Karen Tokhatyan
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Cognitive Value ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
Armenian Highland ◽  
The Bronze Age

Rock-art in Armenia began in the Neolithic period, reaching its peak during the Bronze Age. Rock-carvings have great cognitive value as a cultural source. Their role is important for revealing the historical realities of the Armenian Highland in VII-I millennium BC, to determine the origins of the Armenian people and demographic processes.

Jbel Bani Rock Art: Newly-discovered Shelters along Mountain Paths suggest a Significant Link between Central Sahara and North Africa (Zagora, Southern Morocco)

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adil Moumane ◽  
Jonathan Delorme ◽  
Adbelhadi Ewague ◽  
Jamal Al-Karkouri ◽  
Mohamed Gaoudi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Central Sahara ◽  
Rock Shelters

Abstract The authors, with the help of a team of researchers, have discovered twelve rock shelters with inside paintings on the southern slopes of the Jbel Bani Mountains in southern Morocco. The paintings vary in subject and time period and span multiple rock art styles. Majestic creatures that once inhabited southern Morocco are depicted next to hunters, pastoralists, and warriors. The shelters and paintings cast upon their walls illustrate a transfer of culture, beliefs, technology, and ideas between people groups of the Meridional and Central Sahara and the Jbel Bani region. These discoveries were all made along a mountain path in the Bani Mountains known as Foum Laachar and may help trace ancient human migration routes.

Motivation in African rock art

Antiquity ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 46 (182) ◽  
pp. 124-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Vinnicombe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Wide Field

A very wide field of African rock art, both paintings and engravings, is covered in Burchard Brentjes: African rock art, with special reference to South Africa, Rhodesia, the Sahara, North Africa and Egypt. Because of the general nature of the book, there is little attempt to be comprehensive or conclusive, the aim being more to foster an appreciation and awareness of the art than to solve problems or place it in an archaeological context.

HAND AND FOOT SYMBOLISMS: FROM ROCK ART TO THE QUR' ĀN

Arabica ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Achrati
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
The Mediterranean

AbstractWedded to creativity and spirituality since the dawn of humanity, the symbolisms of the hand and the foot have assumed many religious and artistic forms. This essay explores the artistic and religious significance of the hand and foot in the prehistoric rock art of North Africa and Arabia and examines their various ethnographic and mythological expressions in historical times. It then shows how these symbolisms were restructured in the Qur' n to fit a strictly iconoclastic monotheism. It is a multidisciplinary approach to a collective consciousness that finds its roots in an Afroasiatic substrate and its expression in the artistic and linguistic traditions of the eastern and southern coasts of the Mediterranean.

scholarly journals A Latest Discovery of Austronesian Rock Art in the North Peninsula of Buano Island, Maluku

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Muhammad Al Mujabuddawat ◽  
Godlief Arsthen Peseletehaha
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Early Period ◽  
First Record ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
The People

Gambar cadas merupakan salah satu tradisi yang tertua dan paling banyak tersebar di penjuru dunia. Gambar cadas menjadi bagian dari data penting dalam mempelajari masa lalu, karena gambar cadas kemungkinan mengandung makna pada pemikiran simbolik manusia yang membuatnya. Gambar cadas di Indonesia merupakan budaya yang berlangsung berkesinambungan sejak periode awal gelombang migrasi manusia di Kepulauan Indonesia sekitar puluhan ribu tahun hingga kedatangan penutur budaya Austronesia yang membuka periode Neolitik sekitar ribuan tahun lalu. Gambar cadas di Kawasan Kepulauan Maluku Bagian Tengah pada khususnya secara umum dikenali berciri Tradisi Gambar Austronesia atau lebih dikenal dengan sebutan APT (Austronesian Painting Tradition). Penelitian ini melaporkan temuan baru gambar cadas di di Situs Tanjung Bintang, Pulau Pua, Pesisir Utara Pulau Buano. Penelitian ini menerapkan metode kualitatif dan analitis dalam mendeskripsikan objek motif gambar cadas berdasarkan kajian literatur terkait referensi-referensi yang merujuk pada kajian gambar cadas di Maluku. Penelitian ini mengenali bahwa gambar cadas di Situs Tanjung Bintang berciri Tradisi Gambar Austronesia. Kajian ini merupakan  yang pertama kali melaporkan keberadaan Situs Tanjung Bintang, gambar cadas di Pesisir Utara Pulau Buano, Kepulauan Maluku. Rock art is one of the oldest and most widespread traditions around the world. Rock art is part of essential data in studying the past because rock art has the potential to tell us something of the symbolic concerns of the people that created it. Rock art in Indonesia is a culture that has been ongoing since the early period of the wave of human migration in the Indonesian Archipelago for about tens of thousands of years until the arrival of the Austronesian speaker’s culture who opened the Neolithic period around thousands of years ago. Rock art in the Central Maluku Islands Region in particular, is generally recognized as characterized by the Austronesian Painting Tradition. This research reports new rock art findings at Tanjung Bintang Site, Pua Island, North Coast of Buano Island. This research applies qualitative and analytical methods in describing the object of rock art motifs based on a literature review related to references that refer to the study of rock art in Maluku. This research recognizes that the Tanjung Bintang Site is characterized by the Austronesian Painting Tradition. This study is the first record of the Tanjung Bintang Site rock art in the North Coast of Buano Island, Maluku.

First evidence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa: securing the age of the Qurta petroglyphs (Egypt) through OSL dating

Antiquity ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (330) ◽  
pp. 1184-1193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Huyge ◽  
Dimitri A.G. Vandenberghe ◽  
Morgan De Dapper ◽  
Florias Mees ◽  
Wouter Claes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Optically Stimulated Luminescence ◽  
Osl Dating ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Minimum Age

Long doubted, the existence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa is here proven through the dating of petroglyph panels displaying aurochs and other animals at Qurta in the Upper Egyptian Nile Valley. The method used was optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) applied to deposits of wind-blown sediment covering the images. This gave a minimum age of ~15 000 calendar years making the rock engravings at Qurta the oldest so far found in North Africa.

The Rock Art Tradition of Valcamonica–Valtellina During the Neolithic Period

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Fowler ◽  
Jan Harding ◽  
Daniela Hofmann ◽  
Angelo Eugenio Fossati
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Neolithic Period
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