Ancient visions : petroglyphs and pictographs from the Wind River and Bighorn country, Wyoming and Montana /
"The Bighorn and Wind River basins of north-central Wyoming and southern Montana have been home to Native American tribes for at least 11,000 years and contain some of the most diverse assemblages of hunter-gatherer rock art anywhere in the world. Most notable are the spectacular and surreal im...
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
c2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Ancient Images: Diversity and Complexity
- The Bighorn and Wind River Basins
- The Physical Environment
- The Cultural Environment
- Rock "Art"?
- The Shamanistic Hypothesis
- Visionary Perspectives
- Metaphors of the Imagery
- Style and Classification
- Early Investigations
- Previous Treatments of Style
- Classification, Style, and Tradition
- So How Old Is It?
- Advances in Dating Techniques
- Dating the Prehistoric Imagery of the Bighorn and Wind River Basins
- On the Western Front: The Dinwoody Tradition
- Settings
- Manufacturing Techniques
- En Toto Pecked Figure Types
- The Dinwoody Tradition
- Ethnographic Perspectives and Interpretations
- Looking East: Incised, Painted, and Outline-Pecked Imagery
- Shield-Bearing Warriors and V-Shouldered Anthropomorphs
- Other Human Representations
- Inanimate and Abstract Designs
- Historic Period Imagery
- Contrasting Pictures and New Views of the Past
- Chronological Comparisons
- Spatial Distributions and Boundaries
- Sacred and Scientific Places for the Future.