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

• Tác giả: Jo McDonald
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 709 Historical, geographic, persons treatment of fine and decorative arts
• Thông tin xuất bản: Canberra : ANU Press, 2008
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (380 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 175187
• Chủ đề: 1. Archaeology

Tóm tắt

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.