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.
Research issues and new directions: one decade into the New Millennium
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North American–Siberian connections: regional rock art patterning using multivariate statistic
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Southern Melanesian rock art: the New Caledonian case
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Rock art research in India: historical approaches and recent theoretical directions
James Blinkhorn, Nicole Boivin, Paul S.C. Taçon, Michael Petraglia
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Pictures of women: the social context of australian rock art production
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Engendering north european rock art: bodies and cosmologies in Stone and Bronze Age imagery
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Understanding Pleistocene rock art: an hermeneutics of meaning
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Rock “art” and art: why aesthetics should matter
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Recursive and iterative processes in australian rock art: an anthropological perspective
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Rock art "in situ": context and content as keys to meaning
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Symbolic discontinuities: rock art and social changes across time and space
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Parietal art and archaeological context: activities of the magdalenians in the Cave of Tuc d’Audoubert, France
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When worlds collide quietly: rock art and the mediation of distance
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Picturing change and changing pictures: contact period rock art of Australia
Paul S.C. Taçon, June Ross, Alistair G. Paterson, Sally K. May
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Shamanism in indigenous context: understanding siberian rock art
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Rock art, aboriginal culture, and identity: the Wanjina paintings of Northwest Australia
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Safeguarding a fragile legacy: managing uKhahlamba-Drakensberg rock art
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From discovery to commoditization: rock art management in remote Australia
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Radiocarbon dating of rock paintings: incorporating pictographs into the archaeological record
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Twelve years of research in Chauvet Cave: methodology and main results
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In suspect terrain: dating rock engravings
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Digital enhancement of deteriorated and superimposed pigment art: methods and case studies
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Robust and scientifically reliable rock art documentation from digital photographs
Mark Mudge, Carla Schroer, Tommy Noble, Neffra Matthews, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Corey Toler-Franklin
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