ISBN:
9781921536175
,
1921536179
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 380 pages)
,
illustrations (some color), maps)
Series Statement:
Terra Australis 27
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Rock paintings
;
Petroglyphs
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Visual communication in art
;
Art, Aboriginal Australian
;
Aboriginal Australians Antiquities
;
Archaeology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Archaeology
;
Aboriginal Australians ; Antiquities
;
Antiquities
;
Art, Aboriginal Australian
;
Petroglyphs
;
Rock paintings
;
Visual communication in art
;
Rock paintings ; New South Wales ; Sydney Basin
;
Petroglyphs ; New South Wales ; Sydney Basin
;
Visual communication in art ; New South Wales ; Sydney Basin
;
Art, Aboriginal Australian ; New South Wales ; Sydney Basin
;
Aboriginal Australians ; New South Wales ; Sydney Basin ; Antiquities
;
Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) Antiquities
;
New South Wales ; Sydney Basin
Abstract:
--Introduction --The Sydney Basin -- Environmental Context --Social context --Archaeological context --The rock art of the Sydney Basin --Excavations at Yengo 1 and Yengo 2 --Excavation at the Great Mackerel Rockshelter --Excavations at Upside-Down-Man --The Contemporaneity of Art and Deposit --Diachronic variation in the art of the Sydney Basin --Synchronic variation: Sydney Basin engraved art --Regional synchronic variation: shelter art --Dreamtime superhighway: modelling a regional style.
Abstract:
"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. McDonald has developed a model that suggests that visual culture - such as rock art-making and its images and forms - could be understood as a system of communication, as a way of signaling group identifying behaviour."--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
English
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