Rock Art and Its Legacy in Myth and Art: Petroglyphs from Eurasia, Arabia and Northern Africa

by Christoph Baumer and Therese Weber

Rock art is the oldest artistic expression of mankind. The first creation of these rock carvings ("petroglyphs") and rock paintings ("pictographs") by homo-sapiens represented in multiple aspects a real quantum leap in mental performance.

In Rock Art and Its Legacy in Myth and Art explorer Christoph Baumer tells the story of these remarkable phenomena of early human imagination, taking in examples from Central Asia and the Caucasus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0755650441
• ISBN13: 9780755650446
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.4" x 1.0" x 9.3"