A Comprehensive Survey of Rock Art in Upper Tibet: Volume II

Central and Western Byang thang

John Vincent Bellezza (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

770 Seiten

2023
Archaeopress Archaeology (Verlag)
978-1-80327-616-8 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the central and western parts of the region, this is the second of five volumes that comprehensively document rock art in Upper Tibet. It examines a panoply of graphic evidence found on stone surfaces, supplying an unprecedented view of the long-term development of culture and religion on a large swathe of the Tibetan Plateau.

Focusing on the central and western parts of the region, this is the second in a series of five volumes that comprehensively document rock art in Upper Tibet. It examines a panoply of graphic evidence found on stone surfaces, supplying an unprecedented view of the long-term development of culture and religion on a large swathe of the Tibetan Plateau. The pictographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (rock carvings), host sites, and descriptions and analyses presented are the direct result of intensive fieldwork conducted by the author in Upper Tibet between 1995 and 2016. Information on rock art production techniques, subject identification, thematic class, mode of presentation, physical condition, estimated age, and relative location are supplied for each piece of rock art. In addition to the datasets, the book offers rock art site descriptions and assesses the cultural, religious and artistic development of these locations.

John Vincent Bellezza PhD is a specialist in the archaeology and cultural history of the highest reaches of the Tibetan Plateau. Author of 12 previous books and many academic articles on these subjects, he spent altogether eight years in Tibet engaged in fieldwork between 1984 and 2019. During the course of his explorations, he became the first westerner to visit the sources of the four major rivers arising in western Tibet and is perhaps the only person to reach most of the islands in the big lakes of the Tibetan tablelands.

Precis

Section I. General Introduction

Section II. About This Rock Art Inventory

Inventoried Rock Art Sites

Bshag bsangs/Shar tshang (S30)

Stong shong brag khung

Lo bo brag

Brag mthu bo che

Dar chung (S31)

Mgon bdag (S32)

Am nag (S33)

Dang ra khyung rdzong

Sog po

Dang ra g.yu bun

Rong rde’u sna lhas (S34)

Sngon gdong (S35)

Gyam gdong (S36)

Rgya rug (S37)

Brag khung mdzes po (S38)

Mu ro ri (S39)

Rdzong dkar po

Rta ri brag phug (S40)

’Phrang lam (S41)

Lha khang dmar chags (S42)

Rdzong pi phi (S43)

Ri rgyal (S44)

Dkyil sgrum (S45)

Bong lhas brag (S46)

Ba’o lhas (S47)

Phru gu dbyar kha (S48)

Sngor gyam (S49)

Steng rtse mtshams khang (S50)

Brag lung nub ma (S51)

Kham pa rwa co (S52)

Bibliography

Catalogue of Images

Concordance

Erscheinungsdatum	28.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	192 figures, 20 maps, 1,012 catalogue images (colour throughout)
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	290 x 205 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-80327-616-9 / 1803276169
ISBN-13	978-1-80327-616-8 / 9781803276168
Zustand	Neuware