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The Archaeology of Rock-art / edited by Christopher Chippindale and Paul S.C. Taçon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1998.Description: xviii, 373 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780521572569 (hbk.)
  • 9780521576192 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Rock-art
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.013 21 CHI
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Contents:
1. An archaeology of rock-art through informed methods and informal methods/Paul Tacon and Christopher Chippindale; 2. Finding rain in the desert: landscape, gender and far western North American rock-art / David S. Whitley 3. Towards a mindscape of landscape: rock-art as expression of world-understanding / Sven Ouzman 4. Icon and narrative in transition: contact-period rock-art at Writing-on-Stone, southern Alberta, Canada / Michael A. Klassen 5. Rain in Bushman belief, politics and history: the rock-art of rain-making in the south-eastern mountains, southern Africa / Thomas A. Dowson 6. The many ways of dating Arnhem Land rock-art, north Australia / Christopher Chippindale and Paul S.C. Tacon 7. The 'Three Cs': fresh avenues towards European Palaeolithic art Richard Bradley 8. Daggers drawn: depictions of Bronze Age weapons in Atlantic Europe Kalle Sognnes 9. Symbols in a changing world: rock-art and the transition from hunting to farming in mid Norway Meredith Wilson 10. Pacific rock-art and cultural genesis: a multivariate exploration Ralph Hartley 11. Spatial behaviour and learning in the prehistoric environment of the Colorado River drainage (south-eastern Utah), western North America Anne Vasser 12. The tale of the chameleon and the platypus: limited and likely choices in making pictures /Benjamin Smith
Summary: Rock-art provides lively and captivating images of animals and people painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces. This collection explores how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times by adapting the methods of archaeology to the special subject of rock-art.
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1. An archaeology of rock-art through informed methods and informal methods/Paul Tacon and Christopher Chippindale; 2. Finding rain in the desert: landscape, gender and far western North American rock-art / David S. Whitley 3. Towards a mindscape of landscape: rock-art as expression of world-understanding / Sven Ouzman 4. Icon and narrative in transition: contact-period rock-art at Writing-on-Stone, southern Alberta, Canada / Michael A. Klassen 5. Rain in Bushman belief, politics and history: the rock-art of rain-making in the south-eastern mountains, southern Africa / Thomas A. Dowson 6. The many ways of dating Arnhem Land rock-art, north Australia / Christopher Chippindale and Paul S.C. Tacon 7. The 'Three Cs': fresh avenues towards European Palaeolithic art Richard Bradley 8. Daggers drawn: depictions of Bronze Age weapons in Atlantic Europe Kalle Sognnes 9. Symbols in a changing world: rock-art and the transition from hunting to farming in mid Norway Meredith Wilson 10. Pacific rock-art and cultural genesis: a multivariate exploration Ralph Hartley 11. Spatial behaviour and learning in the prehistoric environment of the Colorado River drainage (south-eastern Utah), western North America Anne Vasser 12. The tale of the chameleon and the platypus: limited and likely choices in making pictures /Benjamin Smith

Rock-art provides lively and captivating images of animals and people painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces. This collection explores how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times by adapting the methods of archaeology to the special subject of rock-art.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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