xv, 239 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 27 cm
附註
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-228) and index
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 -- Settings -- Manufacturing techniques -- 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 -- Conclusions -- Sacred and scientific places for the future
