The Great Civilisations of the Ancient Sahara: Neolithisation and the Earliest Evidence of Anthropomorphic ReligionsL'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER, 1998 - 276 pages |
Table des matières
Introduction | 9 |
The biological evolution of Homo and the gradual appearance of different cultural | 23 |
The emergence of art as a stage of fundamental importance in the cultural evolu | 31 |
Prehistoric art as awareness of the environment the real and the nonreal | 39 |
Research activity in the Tadrart Acacus | 53 |
Research activity in the Amsak Settafet | 79 |
Style and technique | 93 |
The earliest anthropomorphic engravings | 115 |
The sacred nature of shelters | 147 |
Kettles | 157 |
Pairs of holes | 163 |
Chronology | 183 |
Glossary | 251 |
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neolithisation and anthropomorphism | 121 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
aesthetic already Ammotragus Amsak Amsak Settafet ancient animal Anshal anthropomorphic archaeological deposits Aterian awareness behaviour belong biological Bubalus Charcoal chronology civilisation clear clearly climate colour confirmed Cremaschi cultural dating earliest engravings environment Epi-Palaeolithic erosion establish evidence evolution example excavation fact grooves herds herdsmen Holocene human figures human groups identified Imha important increasingly inhumation interpretation kettles later Lernia levels linked massifs means millennia millennium BP Mori nature Neolithic neolithisation painted shelters pairs of holes Palaeolithic particular Pastoral Period patina Pleistocene possible pottery presence problem region rock art rock wall Round Head Period Sahara Saharan rock art scene seems similar species stages style suggest surface Tadrart Acacus Tarxien Tassili technique terminus ante quem Ti-n-Torha Tifinagh tion traces Tuareg language Tuaregs Uan Afuda Uan Amil Uan Muhuggiag Uan Tabu Uan Telocat various Wadi wadi bottom Wadi Teshuinat Xth millennium