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    The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art by David, Bruno; McNiven, Ian J.;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 3 January 2019

    • ISBN 9780190607357
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages1152 pages
    • Size 180x251x58 mm
    • Weight 2087 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Written by leading experts in the field, The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases the latest advances in methods and theories of rock art research. This volume appeals to rock art, archaeology, and anthropology students and scholars with interests in symbolic practices and processes, visual arts, cultural heritage management, and Indigenous studies.

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    Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews. Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases examples of such research from around the world and across a broad range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional researcher alike.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Contributors
    Online Supplementary Material
    Introduction
    1. Towards an Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art
    Bruno David and Ian J. McNiven
    Part I: Geographical and Historical Perspectives
    2. Interpretative Frameworks and the Study of the Rock Arts
    Margaret W. Conkey
    3. North European Rock Art: A Long-term Perspective
    Joakim Goldhahn
    4. The Rock Art of Sub-Scandinavian Europe
    Olivia Rivero and Juan F. Ruiz
    5. The Archaeology of Rock Art in Northern Africa
    Savino di Lernia
    6. The Rock Art of Sub-Saharan Africa
    Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
    7. Rock Art of Northern, Central, and Western Asia
    Andrzej Rozwadowski
    8. The Rock Art of South and East Asia
    Paul S.C. Taçon
    9. Australia's Rock Art Heritage: A Thematic Approach to Assessing Scientific Value
    Jo McDonald
    10. Rock Art of the Pacific: Context and Intertextuality
    Meredith Wilson and Chris Ballard
    11. Rock Art of North America
    David S. Whitley
    12. Rock Art in Central and South America: Social Settings and Regional Diversity
    Andrés Troncoso, Felipe Armstrong, and Mara Basile
    Part II: Conceptual Approaches to Rock Art: Investigating Meaning
    13. Tracing Symbolic Behaviour across the Southern Arc
    Natalie R. Franklin and Phillip J. Habgood
    14. Signalling Theory and Durable Symbolic Expression
    Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird
    15. The Psychology of Graphic Perception
    Jan B. Deregowski
    16. European Palaeolithic Rock Art and Spatial Structures
    Jean Clottes
    17. Art and Environment: How Can Rock Art Inform on Past Environments?
    George Nash
    18. Images of Animals in Rock Art: Not Just 'Good to Think'
    Iain Davidson
    19. Plants Before Animals? Aboriginal Rock Art as Evidence of Ecoscaping in Australia's Kimberley
    Sven Ouzman, Peter Veth, Cecilia Myers, Pauline Heaney, and Kevin Kenneally
    20. 'Enigmatic Images from Remote Prehistory': Rock Art and Ontology from a European Perspective
    Andrew Meirion Jones and Marta Díaz-Guardamino
    21. Rock Art, Music, and Acoustics: A Global Overview
    Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Tommaso Mattioli
    22. The Production of Ethnographic Records and Their Use in Rock Art Research
    Julien Monney and Leïla Baracchini
    23. Rock Art and Ethnography in Australia
    Liam M. Brady, Robert G. Gunn, Claire Smith, and Bruno David
    24. Rock Arts, Shamans, and Grand Theories
    Anne Solomon
    25. A New Framework for Interpreting Contact Rock Art: Reassessing the Rock Art at Nackara Springs, South Australia
    Claire Smith, Jordan Ralph, Kylie Lower, Jennifer McKinnon, Matthew Ebbs, and Vincent Copley Senior
    26. Creolization in the Investigation of Rock Art of the Colonial Era
    Sam Challis
    27. Out of Time and Place: Graffiti and Rock Art Research
    Ursula K. Frederick
    28. Memory, Materiality, and Place in Ojibway Rock Art Performances
    Alex K. Ruuska
    29. Rock Art as Cultural Expressions of Social Relationships and Kinship
    Liam M. Brady, John J. Bradley, and Amanda Kearney
    30. Bodies Revealed: X-ray Art in Western Arnhem Land
    Luke Taylor
    31. Rock Art and Aesthetics
    Thomas Heyd
    Part III: Methods: Marks in Time and Place
    32. The Science of Rock Art Research
    Guy Gibbon
    33. Recording Rock Art: Strategies, Challenges, and Embracing the Digital Revolution
    Liam M. Brady, Jamie Hampson, and Inés Domingo Sanz
    34. GIS in Rock Art Studies
    Michelle L. Wienhold and David W. Robinson
    35. 3-D Modelling in Rock Art Research: Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Photogrammetry, and the Time Factor
    Stéphane Jaillet, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Julien Monney, and Benjamin Sadier
    36. Archaeomorphological Mapping: Rock Art and the Architecture of Place
    Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Bruno David, Robert G. Gunn, Jean-Michel Geneste, and Stéphane Jaillet
    37. Taphonomy on the Surface of the Rock Wall: Rock-Paint-Atmosphere Interactions
    Emilie Chalmin, Stéphane Hœrlé, and Ina Reiche
    38. Characterizing Rock Art Pigments
    Emilie Chalmin and Jillian Huntley
    39. The Use of Harris Matrices in Rock Art Research
    Edward Harris and Robert G. Gunn
    40. Radiocardon Dating in Rock Art Research
    Fiona Petchey
    41. Optical Dating of Rock Art
    Richard G. Roberts
    42. Uranium-Thorium Dating of Cave Art
    Alistair W.G. Pike
    Part IV: The Public Consumption of Art: Applying and Managing Art in the Present
    43. Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights in Rock Art: A Case Study of Australian Indigenous Art
    Stephen Gray
    44. The Conservation and Management of Rock Art: An Integrated Approach
    Johannes Loubser
    45. Rock Art Tourism
    Melanie Duval, Christophe Gauchon, and Benjamin Smith
    46. Past Images, Contemporary Practices: Re-use of Rock Art Images in Contemporary San Art of Southern Africa
    Leïla Baracchini and Julien Monney
    47. The Use and Re-use of Rock Art Designs in Contemporary Jewellery and Wearable Art
    Lynette Russell and Myles Russell-Cook
    48. Visiting Gonjorong's Cave
    Valda Blundell and Woddordda Traditional Owners Donny Woolagoodja, Janet Oobagooma, and Leah Umbagai
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