Author : Robert Layton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 1992-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521346665
A survey of Australian rock art, presenting detailed case studies revealing the significance of both recent and ancient art for Australia's living indigenous communities.
Author : George Chaloupka
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9781876622091
This is the 50,000-year story of the Australian Aboriginal rock art of Arnhem Land. Aboriginal rock art, as practised in Arnhem Land, is the world's longest continuing art tradition. It is a tradition that is not merely decorative, but provides a journey in time - a pictoral record of the longest surviving culture on earth.
Author : Bruno David
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1760461628
Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually most impressive regional assemblages anywhere in the world. To better understand this multi-dimensional cultural record, The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia focuses on the nature and antiquity of the region’s rock art as revealed by archaeological surveys and excavations, and the application of novel analytical methods. This volume also presents new findings by which to rethink how Aboriginal peoples have socially engaged in and with places across western Arnhem Land, from the north to the south, from the plains to the spectacular rocky landscapes of the plateau. The dynamic nature of Arnhem Land rock art is explored and articulated in innovative ways that shed new light on the region’s deep time Aboriginal history.
Author : Iain Davidson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789209218
Dating back to at least 50,000 years ago, rock art is one of the oldest forms of human symbolic expression. Geographically, it spans all the continents on Earth. Scenes are common in some rock art, and recent work suggests that there are some hints of expression that looks like some of the conventions of western scenic art. In this unique volume examining the nature of scenes in rock art, researchers examine what defines a scene, what are the necessary elements of a scene, and what can the evolutionary history tell us about storytelling, sequential memory, and cognitive evolution among ancient and living cultures?
Author : Jo McDonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1118253922
This unique guide provides an artistic and archaeological journey deep into human history, exploring the petroglyphic and pictographic forms of rock art produced by the earliest humans to contemporary peoples around the world. Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars Includes new discoveries and research, illustrated with over 160 images (including 30 color plates) from major rock art sites around the world Examines key work of noted authorities (e.g. Lewis-Williams, Conkey, Whitley and Clottes), and outlines new directions for rock art research Is broadly international in scope, identifying rock art from North and South America, Australia, the Pacific, Africa, India, Siberia and Europe Represents new approaches in the archaeological study of rock art, exploring issues that include gender, shamanism, landscape, identity, indigeneity, heritage and tourism, as well as technological and methodological advances in rock art analyses
Author : Mike Donaldson
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780980589016
At last! A book showcasing the Aboriginal rock art of Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula. Western Australia contains some of the oldest, most prolific, and most spectacular rock art in the world. Some of the art probably dates from about 40,000 years ago, and much dates from around the last ice age which peaked 20,000 years ago. On the Australian Heritage-listed Burrup Peninsula and surrounding islands there are an estimated one million motifs carved into the rocks. This lavishly illustrated 516-page book has more than 600 images of this amazing art.
Author : Ken Mulvaney
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781742586007
"This monograph presents a model of the artistic traditions and associated petroglyph production, suggesting five major phases for the Dampier Archipelago, and providing insights into a world that existed for Indigenous Australians over many thousands of years.".
Author : Australian Heritage Commission
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780644093873
Author : M. J. Morwood
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2002-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781741150049
Visions from the Past is a clear and comprehensive examination of Aboriginal rock art. It also provides a practical overview of precisely how and why archaeologist study prehistoric art.
Author : Bruno David
Publisher :
Page : 1185 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 0190607351
Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews. Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases examples of such research from around the world and across a broad range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional researcher alike.
