New rock art discoveries in the Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh, India

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Author(s)
Tacon, Paul SC
Boivin, Nicole
Hampson, Jamie
Blinkhorn, James
Korisettar, Ravi
Petraglia, Michael
Year published
2010
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The authors have surveyed the little known paintings of the Kurnool area in central south India, bringing to light the varied work of artists active from the Palaeolithic to the present day. By classifying the images and observing their local superposition and global parallels, they present us with an evolving trend - from the realistic drawings of large deer by hunter-gatherers, through the symbolic humans of the Iron Age to the hand-prints of more recent pilgrims and garish life-size modern 'scarecrows'. Here are the foundations for one of the world's longest sequences of rock art.The authors have surveyed the little known paintings of the Kurnool area in central south India, bringing to light the varied work of artists active from the Palaeolithic to the present day. By classifying the images and observing their local superposition and global parallels, they present us with an evolving trend - from the realistic drawings of large deer by hunter-gatherers, through the symbolic humans of the Iron Age to the hand-prints of more recent pilgrims and garish life-size modern 'scarecrows'. Here are the foundations for one of the world's longest sequences of rock art.
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Journal Title
Antiquity
Volume
84
Issue
324
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Subject
Linguistics
Archaeology
Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas