Overview
- 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
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781118253922 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 06/22/2012 |
Series: | Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 720 |
File size: | 23 MB |
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About the Author
Peter Veth’s career has focused on the archaeology of Australia and Island Southeast Asia; and on global desert peoples and art in archaeological context. Peter is currently Chair in Archaeology at the University of Western Australia, an Adjunct Chair at the Australian National University, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Beginning with Islands in the Interior, he has published twelve volumes on the archaeology, art, early contact history, and native title of Australia and Island Southeast Asia. Peter has coauthored Plans of Management, National Heritage Listing reports and Outstanding Universal Values reports for art provinces in Australia.
Table of Contents
List of Plates ixList of Figures xi
List of Tables xvi
Notes on Contributors xviii
Foreword: Redefining the Mainstream with Rock Art xxix Margaret W. Conkey
1 Research Issues and New Directions: One Decade into the New Millennium 1 Jo McDonald and Peter Veth
Part I Explanatory Frameworks: New Insights 15
2 Rock Art and Shamanism 17 J. David Lewis-Williams
3 Pictographs, Patterns, and Peyote in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas 34 Carolyn E. Boyd
4 Variation in Early Paintings and Engravings 51 Iain Davidson
Part II Inscribed Landscapes 69
5 Rock Art and Seascapes 71 Ian J. McNiven and Liam M. Brady
6 The Social Dynamics of Aggregation and Dispersal in the Western Desert 90 Jo McDonald and Peter Veth
7 Rock Art and Transformed Landscapes in Puerto Rico 103 Michele H. Hayward and Michael A. Cinquino
Part III Rock Art at the Regional Level 125
8 Megalithic Rock Art of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Seaboard Europe 127 George Nash
9 North American–Siberian Connections: Regional Rock Art Patterning Using Multivariate Statistics 143 Alice Tratebas
10 Southern Melanesian Rock Art: The New Caledonian Case 160 Christophe Sand
11 Rock Art Research in India: Historical Approaches and Recent Theoretical Directions 179 James Blinkhorn, Nicole Boivin, Paul S. C. Taçon, and Michael D. Petraglia
Part IV Engendered Approaches 197
12 Engendering Rock Art 199 Kelley Hays-Gilpin
13 Pictures of Women: The Social Context of Australian Rock Art Production 214 Jo McDonald
14 Engendering North European Rock Art: Bodies and Cosmologies in Stone and Bronze Age Imagery 237 Joakim Goldhahn and Ingrid Fuglestvedt
Part V Form, Style, and Aesthetics in Rock Art 261
15 Understanding Pleistocene Rock Art: An Hermeneutics of Meaning 263 Oscar Moro Abadía and Manuel R. González Morales
16 Rock “Art” and Art: Why Aesthetics Should Matter 276 Thomas Heyd
17 Recursive and Iterative Processes in Australian Rock Art: An Anthropological Perspective 294 Howard Morphy
18 A Theoretical Approach to Style in Levantine Rock Art 306 Inés Domingo Sanz
Part VI Contextualizing Rock Art 323
19 Rock Art in Situ: Context and Content as Keys to Meaning 325 Linea Sundstrom
20 Symbolic Discontinuities: Rock Art and Social Changes across Time and Space 341 Maria Isabel Hernández Llosas
21 Parietal Art and Archaeological Context: Activities of the Magdalenians in the Cave of Tuc d’Audoubert, France 364 Robert Bégouën, Carole Fritz, and Gilles Tosello
22 Rock Art, Inherited Landscapes, and Human Populations in Southern Patagonia 381 Judith Charlin and Luis A. Borrero
Part VII The Mediating Role of Rock Art 399
23 When Worlds Collide Quietly: Rock Art and the Mediation of Distance 401 Ursula K. Frederick
24 Picturing Change and Changing Pictures: Contact Period Rock Art of Australia 420 Paul S.C. Taçon, June Ross, Alistair Paterson, and Sally May
Part VIII Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity 437
25 Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity 439 Robert Layton
26 Shamanism in Indigenous Context: Understanding Siberian Rock Art 455 Andrzej Rozwadowski
27 Rock Art, Aboriginal Culture, and Identity: The Wanjina Paintings of Northwest Australia 472 Valda Blundell and Donny Woolagoodja
Part IX Rock Art Management and Interpretation 489
28 Rock Art and the UNESCO World Heritage List 491 Nuria Sanz
29 Safeguarding a Fragile Legacy: Managing uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Rock Art 515 Aron Mazel
30 Managing Rock Art Sites 532 Valerie Magar
31 From Discovery to Commoditization: Rock Art Management in Remote Australia 546 Peter Veth
Part X Dating Rock Art: Technological Advances and Applications 563
32 Radiocarbon Dating of Rock Paintings: Incorporating Pictographs into the Archaeological Record 565 Karen L. Steelman and Marvin W. Rowe
33 Twelve Years of Research in Chauvet Cave: Methodology and Main Results 583 Jean Clottes and Jean-Michel Geneste
34 In Suspect Terrain: Dating Rock Engravings 605 David S. Whitley
Part XI Rock Art in the Digital Age 625
35 Digital Enhancement of Deteriorated and Superimposed Pigment Art: Methods and Case Studies 627 Liam M. Brady and Robert G. Gunn
36 Robust and Scientifically Reliable Rock Art Documentation from Digital Photographs 644 Mark Mudge, Carla Schroer, Tommy Noble, Neffra Matthews, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and Corey Toler-Franklin
37 Engaging a New Digital Citizenry 660 Michael Ashley and Cinzia Perlingieri
Index 670
What People are Saying About This
“A pertinent and stimulating collection of ideas, theory and research results under 11 core themes designed to contextualize rock art within the mainstream of archaeology.” - Dr. Janette Deacon, Research Associate, Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand