Dreamtime Superhighway (TA27) Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange

• Autore principale: McDonald, Jo (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Canberra ANU Press 2008
• Serie: Terra Australis 27
• Soggetti: Archaeology; rock art; australia; aboriginal australians; archeology; new south wales; sydney basin; Before Present; Darug; Dreamtime; Kuringgai; Pigment; Terra Australis
• Accesso online: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Riassunto

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.

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (380 p.)

ISBN

OAPEN_459083
9781921536175

Accesso

Open Access