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New Discoveries of Rock Paintings in Ethiopia Part I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Paolo Graziosi
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Abstract

Professor Paolo Graziosi is Professor of Anthropology in the University of Florence, and also Director of the Istituto di Paletnologia in that University. He here describes new discoveries of rock paintings which he saw in Ethiopia in 1961, and relates these discoveries and earlier ones from that country to prehistoric European and African art in general. In order to allow space to illustrate this article as fully as possible, it is being published in two parts. The rock art of the Adi Caieh and Karora regions will be described in the September number of ANTIQUITY, together with Professor Graxiosi’s discussion of Ethiopian rock art as a whole.

Type
Research Article
Information
Antiquity , Volume 38 , Issue 150 , June 1964 , pp. 91 - 98
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1964 

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Professor Paolo Graziosi is Professor of Anthropology in the University of Florence, and also Director of the Istituto di Paletnologia in that University. He here describes new discoveries of rock paintings which he saw in Ethiopia in 1961, and relates these discoveries and earlier ones from that country to prehistoric European and African art in general. In order to allow space to illustrate this article as fully as possible, it is being published in two parts. The rock art of the Adi Caieh and Karora regions will be described in the September number of ANTIQUITY, together with Professor Graziosi's discussion of Ethiopian rock art as a whole.

References

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[2] J. D. Clark, The Prehistoric Cultures of the Horn of Africa (Cambridge, 1954), 298-300.

[3] A. Vigliardi-Micheli, ‘Le pitture rupestri di Carora (Nord-Eritrea)’, Revista di Scienze Preistoriche, XI, 1956, 193-210.

[4] A. Mordini, ‘Un riparo sotto roccia con pitture rupestri dell’Amba Focadà (Eritrea)’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, anno I, no. 1, 1941.

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[7] R. Graziosi, ‘Figure rupestri schematiche dell’Acchele Guzai (Etiopia)’, Atti de VI Congresso Internazionale delle Scienze Preistoriche e Protostoriche (Roma, 1962).