Handprints In Montana Rock Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9217341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mavis Greer (Greer Consulting, 2599 Paradise Drive, Casper, WY 82604), Greer John (Greer Consulting, 2599 Paradise Drive, Casper, WY 82604) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 167 |
| Pages | 59-71 |
| Publication date | 1999-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Plains Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2052546.1999.11931935 |
| OpenAlex | W150181766 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 2 |
Human hands are portrayed in rock art in much of Montana, but are most frequent in the central part of the state where they are the only kind of figure at five sites. Production categories in Montana include impressed hands, stylized hands, and negative hands. Of the hands currently recorded in Montana, the impressed and negative categories are actual physical representations of hands and are therefore important for suggestions on the age and gender of the painters or participants themselves. Positive hand impressions outnumber other categories 6:1. In central Montana these occur mostly on open bluffs that probably functioned as public markers relaying information to people passing the site. Freehand paintings of hands (“ stylized ”) occur mostly in cave sites that appear to have a ceremonial function
Archaeology · Art · Cave · Cave painting · Painting · Rock art · Stylized fact · Visual arts · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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| Citations per year | 0.48 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |