Prehistoric Art: Signs, Symbols, Myth, Ideology: Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 27 Session C26

Product Description Papers from Session C26, 'Prehistoric Art: Signs, Symbols, Myth, Ideology', from the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Un nuevo conjunto de arte rupestre esquemático en el tramo final del río Ibor (Cáceres, España) (Mª A. Aldecoa Quintana, A. Domínguez García); 2) Towards a Pastoral Neolithic Society: Khanguet- El-Hadjar, Constantinois, Algeria (Idir Amara, Colette Roubet) ; 3) Les figures humaines sexuées segmentées et isolées : pérennité et ruptures (Raphaëlle Bourrillon) ; 3) Les Manifestations Esthétiques du Mésolithique (Florence Bouvry); 4) Death and Transfiguration of a sign. The cruciform on the Neolithic steles of western France (Serge Cassen) ; 5) Una aproximación interpretativa: Variabilidad y funcionalidad en los abrigos con arte rupestre. Su reflejo en el Parque Natural de Monfraguee (Cáceres) (Hipólito Collado Giraldo); 6) Complexo de Sítios de Pinturas Rupestres da Pedra Grande na Região dos Inselbergues de Itatim, Bahia, Brasil - Estado Atual e Perspectivas de Preservação de uma Área Arqueológica em Alto Risco de Degradação (Claudia Cunha, Flávio França, Efigênia de Melo, Jacqueline Miranda Gonçalves); 7) Sonajeros hechos con pupas de insectos entre cazadores recolectores andinos y sudafricanos. Su representación en Arte Rupestre (Alicia Ana Fernández Distel); 8) Palaeoart and Selection (Arsen Faradzhev); 9) Interpreting Visual Narrative - from North European Rock Art to Shamanic Drums of Northern Peoples (Liliana Janik); 10) Iconography and optical 3D measurements techniques: a modern view on the megalithic art of the gallery-grave at Zueschen/Lohne (Germany) (Dieter Dirksen, Albrecht Jockenhövel, Lena Loerper); 11) Carved Rocks, Functional and Symbolic (Lemnos island, Greece) (Christina Marangou); 12) Schematic panel with palaeolithic punctuation and other questions of Paleoastronomy and Philosophy of Antiquity (José Fernández Quintano); 13) Rock-art from Houmian Valley, Lorestan Province, Iran (Laurence Remacle, Jalal Adeli, Marylise Lejeune, Sirvan Mohammadi, Marcel Otte); 14) Rock Art: From Prehistoric Time to Contemporary Man : Hypostasis, Metaphor, Meta-language ; From Reality to Virtual Museum (Dario Seglie); 15) Prehistoric Scandinavian rock art: iconography and interactions (Marie Vourc'h) ; 16) Remarques sur le symbolisme des stèles préhistoriques alpines (Adolfo Zavaroni); 17) Girls' initiation rock art in south-central Africa : women's voices (Leslie Zubieta). About the Author Dario Seglie, Marcel Otte, Luiz Oosterbeek and Laurence Remacle