North American Petroforms: Questions of the Chronological and Cultural Placement
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: The arrangement of stones on a flat surface constitutes one of the most fundamental symbolic acts among rock art traditions. It is worldwide and offers many variations. In North America, the practice is spread from coast to coast, and is expressed as anything from a few boulders laid out in the shape of a turtle to large and complex arrangements of many features linked together by stone lines as at the Tie Creek site. Uses of these features could range from individual acts by vision supplica...
Source: Palethnologie
Authors: Jack Steinbring, Norman Muller
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4381740244