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- Title
THE ROLE OF ROCK ART IN EARLY STATE FORMATION.
- Authors
Lambert, Arnaud F.
- Abstract
It has long been suggested that the development of writing played a key role in the formation of primary states. This exploratory paper asks whether other technologies of communication, such as rock art, played an important role in early state formation. A comparison of the chronological, geographic and macrosocial contexts of rock art use among early states in different parts of the world -- Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus River valley, China, Mesoamerica and the central Andes -- demonstrates that rock art not only served as an index for various processes of state formation such as trade and warfare, but that it also complemented the role of writing as a system of cultural expression.
- Subjects
ANDES Region; STATE formation -- History; ROCK art (Archaeology); SOCIOLOGY of writing; CULTURE; EGYPTIAN history to 332 B.C.; INDUS civilization; MAYAS -- History; HISTORY; ART &; society
- Publication
Rock Art Research, 2014, Vol 31, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
0813-0426
- Publication type
Article