Title Early rock art of the American west : the geometric enigma / Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake.

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Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Note	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2018).
Subject	Picture-writing -- West (U.S.)
	Petroglyphs -- West (U.S.)
	Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Antiquities.
	ART -- History -- General.
	West United States. (OCoLC)fst01243255
	Rock paintings. (OCoLC)fst01099256
	Rock paintings -- West (U.S.)
	Picture-writing. (OCoLC)fst01063814
	West (U.S.) -- Antiquities.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- West (U.S.) -- Antiquities.
Subject	Antiquities. (OCoLC)fst00810745
	Petroglyphs. (OCoLC)fst01059252
	ART -- History -- Prehistoric & Primitive.
	Indians of North America -- Antiquities. (OCoLC)fst00969645
Added Author	Dissanayake, Ellen, author.
Other Form:	Print version: Malotki, Ekkehart. Early rock art of the American west. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2018 9780295743608 (DLC) 2017050791
ISBN	9780295743622 (electronic book)
	029574362X (electronic book)

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