A Comprehensive Survey of Rock Art in Upper Tibet

Volume IV: Stod (Western Half)

John Vincent Bellezza (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

1216 Seiten

2025
Archaeopress Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-80327-873-5 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the Western half of Stod, this is the fourth 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 2024. 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

Introduction

A Brief Introduction to the Volume

Rock Art Sites of Upper Tibet

Chronology Outline

Abbreviations Used in the Rock Art Inventory

Inventoried Rock Art Sites

Mtha’ kham pa ri (S69)

Nag skyom (S70)

Rgyab lung (S71)

Brag gtsug (S72)

Gna’ bo lung (S73)

Chu lung (S74)

Gyam kham pa (S75)

Rdu ru can (S76)

Ri mo gdong (S77)

Sa snying (S78)

Rno ba g.yang rdo (S79)

Nag khung rdo ring (S80)

Gri’u chu thang (S81)

She rang sna kha shar ma (S82)

’Bri mo spo ba (S83)

Rdzong chen (S84)

She rang mkhar lung (S85)

Rdzong chung (S86)

Mkhar po che

Ru thog rdzong (S87)

Gser sgam (S88)

Lu ring sna kha (S89)

Mar lung (S90)

Brag gyam (S91)

Rgyal la ding (S92)

Bibliography

Catalogue of Images

Concordance

Catalogue No. – Inventory No.

Inventory No. – Image No.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80327-873-0 / 1803278730
ISBN-13	978-1-80327-873-5 / 9781803278735
Zustand	Neuware