Rock art in the Americas
Subtitle: mythology, cosmogony and rituals : Proceedings of the 2nd REEA Conference, Ritual Americas: configurations and recombining of the ritual devices and behaviors in the New World, in historical and contemporary societies, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), April 2-5, 2008
By: edited by Franc̨oise Fauconnier, Serge Lemaitre
Series: BAR international series -- 2448; BAR international series -- 2448.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781407310527
Subjects: Petroglyphs; Rock paintings; Congresses
Notes: "These proceedings are part of a congress held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in April 2008. The congress organized by the Belgian Society of the Americanists was entitled: "Ritual Americas: configurations and recombining of the ritual devices and behaviours in the New World, in historical and contemporary societies"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references.

Papers in English, Spanish
Table of contents: title: Introduction - Introducción / Françoise Fauconnier and Serge Lemaitre; title: Rock art sites as spiritual places? Canadian Shield rock art as part of the Algonquian sacred landscape / Daniel Arsenault; title: Thunderbirds and horned snakes: cosmogony at Canadian rock art sites / Serge Lemaitre; title: Cueva de la Serpiente: interpretive analysis of an Archaic great mural rock art panel, Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico / Roberto Martínez, Larissa Mendoza and Ramón Viñas; title: El Salto del Perro, Durango, México: la construcción de un paisaje sagrado en los confines de Mesoamerica / Fernando Berrojalbiz y Marie-Areti Hers; title: Paisaje y petrograbados del sitio de la Ferrería, Durango, México / José Luis Punzo Díaz; title: Imágenes de guerreros en el arte rupestre del norte de Michoacán. Una aproximacion a los ritos de los cazadores recolectores del posclásico / Brigitte Faugère; title: The Cave of the Bat, a primordial cave of the sun, Acapulco, Mexico / Martha Cabrera Guerrero; title: Myths and oral tradition in the study of rock art: high plains of Cundinamarca-Boyaca, past ethnohistory and country folk tradition / Guillermo Muñoz C.; title: The rock art of the Bochica Route. Possible connections between oral tradition and sense and function of rock art / Judith Trujillo Téllez; title: El arte rupestre del río San Juan del Oro (Bolivia): reflexiones sobre el simbolismo y la función de las imágenes / Françoise Fauconnier.