Dreamtime Superhighway (TA27) : Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange:
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Beteilige Person: McDonald, Jo (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: [s.l.] ANU Press 2008
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Links:http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=fulltext&rid=14928
Beschreibung:Dreamtime Superhighway presents a thorough and original contextualization of the rock art and archaeology of the Sydney Basin. By combining excavation results with rock art analysis it demonstrates that a true archaeology of rock art can provide insights into rock art image-making in people’s social and cultural lives. Based on a PhD dissertation, this monograph is a significantly revised and updated study which draws forcefully on rich and new data from extensive recent research—much of it by McDonald herself. McDonald has developed a model that suggests that visual culture—such as rock artmaking and its images and forms—could be understood as a system of communication, as a way of signaling group identifying behaviour. For the archaeologist of art, the anthropologist of art and those of us who try to think about past worlds… this monograph is a must read
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (380 S.)
ISBN:9781921536175