Dreamtime Superhighway (TA27) Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange
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 s...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Canberra
ANU Press
2008
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| Series: | Terra Australis
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| Online Access: | DOAB: download the publication DOAB: description of the publication |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (380 p.) |
| ISBN: | OAPEN_459083 9781921536175 |
| Access: | Open Access |