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Pictographs at two sites on Bonaire, Netherland Antilles: Description, analysis and a regional comparison

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1989
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Two previously unrecorded sites on Bonaire in the Netherland Antilles are reported in this study. Pictographs on the island were subjected to a form analysis to determine the relationship of the representational elements to the non-representational elements. The results show that the pictographs at Site S1 are primarily non-representational and do not have recurring motifs found at other sites on Bonaire. Those at Site S2 are unlike any others on Bonaire. The rock art from the Lesser Antilles and Venezuela is primarily representational and petroglyphs. Those found in western Cuba, Aruba and Curacao are non-representational with recurring motifs. The Dominican Republic's and eastern Cuba's rock art is representational and, like Curacao, both have pictographs and petroglyphs present.
Title: Pictographs at two sites on Bonaire, Netherland Antilles: Description, analysis and a regional comparison.
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Name(s): Beiter, Gary Norman.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Kennedy, William J., Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Anthropology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1989
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 98 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Two previously unrecorded sites on Bonaire in the Netherland Antilles are reported in this study. Pictographs on the island were subjected to a form analysis to determine the relationship of the representational elements to the non-representational elements. The results show that the pictographs at Site S1 are primarily non-representational and do not have recurring motifs found at other sites on Bonaire. Those at Site S2 are unlike any others on Bonaire. The rock art from the Lesser Antilles and Venezuela is primarily representational and petroglyphs. Those found in western Cuba, Aruba and Curacao are non-representational with recurring motifs. The Dominican Republic's and eastern Cuba's rock art is representational and, like Curacao, both have pictographs and petroglyphs present.
Identifier: 14530 (digitool), FADT14530 (IID), fau:11328 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1989.
Subject(s): Picture-writing, Indian
Picture-writing--Bonaire
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