2 volumes
H 205 x W 290 mm
1142 pages
205 figures, 18 maps, 1637 catalogue images (colour throughout)
Published Aug 2024
ISBN
Paperback: 9781803277738
Shrinkwrap: 9781803277738
Digital: 9781803277745
Keywords
Rock Art; Later Prehistory; Tibet; Tibetan Archaeology; Cultural History; Iron Age; Late Bronze Age; Eurasia; Heritage; Protohistory
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Focusing on the Eastern half of Stod, this is the third 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.
Volume III.1
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Catalogue Images
Acknowledgements
Precis
Section I. General Introduction
Section II. About This Rock Art Inventory
Inventoried Rock Art Sites
Gong ra/Gong kha (S53)
Chu mkhar gyam (S54)
Skabs ren spungs ri (S55)
Tham ka can (S56)
Rta po g.yag gong (S57)
Ser mdzod rdo ring (S58)
Rgya steng ’bur rdo ring West
Ma mo rgya lhas rdo ring
Smyon pa lhas rdo ring
Mchod rten sbug sna kha (S59)
Brag gdong East (S60)
Glog phug ri (S61)
Brag gdong West (S62)
Gyam rag (S63)
Rtwa med god sa mon dur (S64)
Rwa ’brog ’phrang (S65)
Volume III.2
Sgog ra (S66)
Skal khra mon dur (S67)
Sna kha sogs and Mtha’ rung (S68)
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 2023. 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.