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• Foreword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition; Introduction: A Message from the President; Decoding Prehistoric Art: The Messages Behind the Images (Emmanuel Anati and Ariela Fradkin); Primitive Religious Information Embodied in Human-Face Images of Rock Art on Zhuozishan Mountain, Wuhai, Inner Mongolia (Li An and Junsheng Wu); Prairie Economy Development seen from Rock Art in the West Range of Langshan Mountain, Inner Mongolia (Aoyungerile and Ying An); The Canadian Shield Rock Art and its Spiritual Dimension: Finding Some Tangible and Intangible Aspects of Rock Art Sites in the Canadian Shield through a Contextual Approach (Daniel Arsenault); Intellectual and Spiritual Expressions of Non-Literate Societies: Art and Culture, a Journey through the World of Mankind (Margalit Berriet); Carved Footprints and Prehistoric Beliefs: Examples of Symbol and Myth Practice and Ideology (Ulf Bertilsson); Grid Patterns in NW Iberia Rock Art Iconography, Contexts and Interpretations (Ana M. S. Bettencourt); Sexual Human Representations in the Paintings in the Serra da Capivara, Brazil: Relations in Action, Narrative Relations? (Pascale Binant); The Stargazers: The Evolution of Knowledge, Beliefs and Rock Art (Paul Bouissac); As Above, So Below: Unveiling the Truth About Stonehenge’s Sacred Landscape (Paul D. Burley); Research and Study on the Guizhou Rock Art Heritage (Bo Cao); Pre-Literate Art in India: A Source of Indigenous Knowledge, Ethno-History and Collective Wisdom (Somnath Chakraverty); The Anthropomorphic Figurine of Can SadurnÍ Cave, Begues, Barcelona (Manuel Edo, Ferran Antolín, Pablo Martínez, MªJesús Barrio, Elicínia Fierro, Trinidad Castillo, Eva Fornell, Georgina Prats, Remei Bardera, Concepció Castellana); Archeology, Rock Art, Archeoacoustics and Neuroscience: What Kind of Relation? (Fernando Coimbra); Heralding the Sun (Léo Dubal); The Treasures from the Russian City of Zaraysk (Arsen Faradzhev); Several Understandings on the Cave Paintings on the Turtle Stone in Anshan (Gang Li and Xifeng Ni); Earth and Underground in Early Sumerian Sources (Francesco Ghilotti); From Survival to Conatus: Comparative Axiology from Engraving To Painting (Lysa Hochroth); The Intellectual and Spiritual Expressions of a Nomadic Tribe, the Birhor (of Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, Eastern India) (Bulu Imam); Prehistoric Rock Art, the Information Era of Humans which has been Overlooked (Yanqing Jin and Xiaoxia Zhang); Some Aspects of the Contemporary Use of Ancient Symbols (Shemsi Krasniqi); Discovery and Pilot Study of the Jinsha River Chiselled Rock Art in Shangri-La (Gang Li); Rock Paintings in Southwest China, Focusing on the Coffin Paintings in the Rock Cave at Xianren Bridge, Huishui County, Guizhou Province (Fei Li); Survey of the Status and Protection Strategy for the Ancient Rock Paintings in Guizhou (Hao Li and Biao He); Lifestyle of Human Groups During Palaeolithic at Har Karkom (Federico Mailland); Aspects of the Nature and Purpose of Specific Symbols and Images in the Non-Literate World of Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland (Including Stonehenge) (G. Terence Meaden); The Arroyo de las Flechas’ Rock Art Engravings: Symbolic Associations in Sierra El Alamo (Caborca, Sonora, Mexico) (Beatriz Menéndez, Ramon Viñas, Martha E. Benavente, Alejandro Terrazas and Albert Rubio); Colonisation of the Upper Miera and Asón Valleys (Cantabria, Spain) in the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene (Mercedes Pérez Bartolomé and Emilio Muñoz Fernández); The Special Characteristics of the Zhenfeng Rock Art in Guizhou (Xiaomei Mu and Li-Na Zhang); Symbols as Persona in the Dawn of Food Production in the Alto Ribatejo, Portugal (Luiz Oosterbeek); The Portrait in Prehistory (Marcel Otte); Review of Guangxi Cliff Drawing Research (Hu Pengcheng); Research on File Construction System of Rock Art (Hua Qiao, Li Bin Gong and Hui Liu); The Dynamics of Mental Movements as a Base for the Intellectual and Spiritual Expressions of Non-Literate People and the Origin of Development of the Human Being (Andrea Rocchitelli); The Rock Art of Saracahi River Basin: The El Arco and Blanca de la Pulsera Caves, Sonora (Mexico) Albert Rubio, Ramon Viñas, Joaquín Arroyo, César Quijada, Beatriz Menéndez, Neemias Santos, Antonio Hernanz and Mercedes Iriarte; A Ritual Space with Paintings and Engravings in the La Calera Rock Art Set, Caborca, Sonora, Mexico (Albert Rubio, Ramon Viñas, Joaquín Arroyo, César Quijada, Beatriz Menéndez, Neemias Santos); The Rock Art of Indo-European Cultures: Concordances, Logics and Possible Common Values (Umberto Sansoni); A Natufian Mask-Face Figurine: An Insight into the Nature of the Supernatural Being (Dana Shaham and Anna Belfer-Cohen); Research on the Classification and Staging of Rock Art on Lusen Mountain in Qinghai (Zeming Shi and Yanqing Jin); Investigation and Research into Dahongyan Rock Art in Zhengfeng County, Guizhou Province (Zeming Shi and Xiaoxia Zhang); Field Survey and Analysis of Mask Worship in the Xiliaohe River Basin (Xiaoyong Sun and Jiaxin Zhang); The Use of Burial Space and Social Relations Between the Late Neolithic Age and the Copper Age in Sardinia (Giuseppa Tanda); 3D Reconstructions of Sculptured Emotions in the Copper Age Eastern Balkans (Tsoni Tsonev); The Beginnings of Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics in the Rock Art of Armenia (Gregor Vahanyan); A Complex Research of Paleolithic Art in Ukraine (Viktor Vetrov); Manipulation Tactics: A Cultural Interpretation of Rock Art Images Massed in Southwest China (Liangfan Wang and Xiaoming Luo); Research on the Development and Utilization of the Guizhou Ancient Petrography Resource (Xiaoping Wu and Hao Li); Discovery and Study of Two Groups of Writing on the Cliff in the Hongshan Culture Area (Jiacai Wu); Communication and Transform: In-Depth Reflection of Helan Mountain Rock Art (Huiling Yang); Research of Classification and Stages of the Rock Art on Lusen Mountain in Qinghai (Jing Yanqing and Shi Zeming); Using the Montage Technique to Read Various Cave Painting Sites on Guizhou Plateau (Qian Sheng You); Agricultural Worship in the Rock Art of Jiangjunya, Lianyungang City, East China (Jiaxin Zhang and Yaqi Huang); Image Classification and the Symbolic Structure of the Rock Art at the Zuojiang River, Guangxi (Yasha Zhang, Xiaohong Lu and Mingshui Wang); Research on Face Rock Carvings in Northern China (Wenjing Zhang and Xiaokun Wang); Discussion of Reproduction Worship in Chinese Rock Art (Jiaxin Zhang, Bo Xiao and Zhaohui Wang); An Ancient Sacrificial Place: Research Into Rock Art in Xianju (Houqiu Zhu); Significance of the Stabilization Works Which Protect the Rock Art Painting in Ningming District (Qiuping Zhu); Petroglyphs of the Northern Pacific Rim: The Rock Art of the Xiliaohe River and the Amur River (Lifeng Zhu and Xu Wang); On the Disciplines of Taking Image in Chinese Rock Art (Yuan Zhu and Zhuoran Yu)