The Documentation and Study of 34 Rock Art Sites in Raisen District, Madhya Pradesh, India

Saleem Shaikh, Parth C. Chauhan (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

741 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5695-5 (ISBN)

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This study of rock paintings, including engraved art objects such as ostrich eggshells ranging from the Upper Palaeolithic to Historic and Late Historic periods throws, light on the ways of life of prehistoric people and provides information on their thoughts and beliefs, society, religion and rituals, art and aesthetic sense, material culture, technology, and economy. It analyses different types of animal figures painted in various colours with or without body decorations, as well as different types of human figures shown in hunting big and small game, fishing and fruit and honey collection, showing what these paintings suggest about the subsistence strategies and celebrations.

Saleem Shaik is a Homi Bhabha Fellow and a former Senior Academic Fellow of the Indian Council of Historical Research. He has carried out his research work as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, Punjab. He received his PhD from Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, India, and worked on the Rock Art and Associated Archaeological Cultures of Hadoti Plateau in south-eastern Rajasthan, India for his doctoral dissertation. His primary research interests are rock art of central India and the prehistory of Kutch region of Gujarat. He is the author of 28 journal articles and three book chapters. Parth R. Chauhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. He received his PhD in Archaeology and Prehistory from the University of Sheffield, UK, and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Stone Age Institute, USA. His primary research interests are palaeoanthropology of the Indian Subcontinent, including stone tool technology, vertebrate fossils and rock art. He has co-edited two books and published 65 papers.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-0364-5695-1 / 1036456951
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5695-5 / 9781036456955
Zustand	Neuware