Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Action, ritual, and myth in the rock art of Egyptian Western Desert
AU  - Svoboda JA
Y1  - 2009
VL  - 47
IS  - 1-2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 159
EP  - 167
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Western Desert
KW  - Neolithic pastoralism
KW  - Rock art
KW  - Archetype
KW  - Tradition
N2  - 
N2  - This paper reviews the techno-stylistic structure of the rock art in the Egyptian Western Desert in general, and focuses on narrative scenes painted in four caves of the southern Gilf el-Kebir area in particular: El-Qantara, the Cave of Archers, the Cave of Swimmers, and the Cave of the Beasts. Some of these panels repeatedly depict two archetypes: the “weightless humans”, and the “central monster”. It seems that both acrobatic and mythological aspects similar to these early pastoral scenes may be reflected in later cultural contexts and traditions.
ER  -