H 205 x W 290 mm
770 pages
192 figures, 20 maps, 1,012 catalogue images (colour throughout)
Published Nov 2023
ISBN
Paperback: 9781803276168
Digital: 9781803276175
Keywords
Rock Art; Later Prehistory; Tibet; Tibetan Archaeology; Cultural History; Iron Age; Late Bronze Age; Eurasia; Heritage
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Focusing on the central and western parts of the region, this is the second 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.
Precis
Section I. General Introduction
Section II. About This Rock Art Inventory
Inventoried Rock Art Sites
Bshag bsangs/Shar tshang (S30)
Stong shong brag khung
Lo bo brag
Brag mthu bo che
Dar chung (S31)
Mgon bdag (S32)
Am nag (S33)
Dang ra khyung rdzong
Sog po
Dang ra g.yu bun
Rong rde’u sna lhas (S34)
Sngon gdong (S35)
Gyam gdong (S36)
Rgya rug (S37)
Brag khung mdzes po (S38)
Mu ro ri (S39)
Rdzong dkar po
Rta ri brag phug (S40)
’Phrang lam (S41)
Lha khang dmar chags (S42)
Rdzong pi phi (S43)
Ri rgyal (S44)
Dkyil sgrum (S45)
Bong lhas brag (S46)
Ba’o lhas (S47)
Phru gu dbyar kha (S48)
Sngor gyam (S49)
Steng rtse mtshams khang (S50)
Brag lung nub ma (S51)
Kham pa rwa co (S52)
Bibliography
Catalogue of Images
Concordance
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 2019. 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.