Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Australia has one of the largest inventories of rock art in the world with pictographs and petroglyphs found almost anywhere that has suitable rock surfaces – in rock shelters and caves, on boulders and rock platforms. First Nations people have been marking these places with figurative imagery, abstract designs, stencils and prints for tens of thousands of years, often engaging with earlier rock markings. The art reflects and expresses changing experiences within landscapes over time, spirituality, history, law and lore, as well as relationships between individuals and groups of people, plants, animals, land and Ancestral Beings that are said to have created the world, including some rock art. Since the late 1700s, people arriving in Australia have been fascinated with the rock art they encountered, with detailed studies commencing in the late 1800s. Through the 1900s an impressive body of research on Australian rock art was undertaken, with dedicated academic study using archaeological methods employed since the late 1940s. Since then, Australian rock art has been researched from various perspectives, including that of Traditional Owners, custodians and other community members. Through the 1900s, there was also growing interest in Australian rock art from researchers across the globe, leading many to visit or migrate to Australia to undertake rock art research. In this volume, the varied histories of Australian rock art research from different parts of the country are explored not only in terms of key researchers, developments and changes over time, but also the crucial role of First Nations people themselves in investigations of this key component of their living heritage.

Australasian & Pacific history --- Archaeology --- rock art --- Australian rock art --- Australia --- rock art research --- First Nations people --- Petroglyphs --- Picture-writing --- Research --- Carvings, Rock --- Engravings, Rock --- Rock carvings --- Rock engravings --- Rock inscriptions --- Stone inscriptions --- Inscriptions --- Rock paintings --- Ideography --- Pictographs --- Pictography --- Hieroglyphics --- Writing

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This Open Access book explains that after long periods of prehistoric research in which the importance of the archaeological as well as the natural context of rock art has been constantly underestimated, research has now begun to take this context into focus for documentation, analysis, interpretation and understanding. Human footprints are prominent among the long-time under-researched features of the context in caves with rock art. In order to compensate for this neglect an innovative research program has been established several years ago that focuses on the merging of indigenous knowledge and western archaeological science for the benefit of both sides. The book gathers first the methodological diversity in the analysis of human tracks. Here major representatives of anthropological, statistical and traditional approaches feature the multi-layered methods available for the analysis of human tracks. Second it compiles case studies from around the globe of prehistoric human tracks. For the first time, the most important sites which have been found worldwide are published in a single publication. The third focus of this book is on firsthand experiences of researchers with indigenous tracking experts from around the globe, expounding on how archaeological sciencecan benefit from the ancestral knowledge. This book will be of interest to professional archaeologists, graduate students, ecologists, cultural anthropologists and laypeople, especially those focussing on hunting-gathering and pastoralist communities and who appreciate indigenous knowledge.

Archaeology --- Anthropology --- Biological and Physical Anthropology --- Physical-Biological Anthropology --- Footprints in caves with rock art. --- Indigenous trackers from around the globe --- Open Access --- Pleistocene human footprints --- Scientific value of prehistoric human footprints --- Tracking in Caves

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Drawing in the Land offers an important contribution to the field of rock art research and Australian archaeology. It provides a detailed study of the previously under-examined rock art of the Hawkesbury/Nepean area of New South Wales. The study presents a detailed historiography of Australian rock art research and, through the lens of landscape archaeology, offers an innovative contribution to rock art studies in the wider Sydney Basin.The volume’s theoretical focus on materiality, embodied practice and performance allows for the charting of ideational change and provides a unique contribution to the late Holocene archaeology of NSW and contact archaeology within Australia more broadly."

Art, Aboriginal Australian. --- Aboriginal Australians --- Antiquities. --- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Art, Australian aboriginal --- Aboriginal Australian art --- Sidney Basin (N.S.W.) --- archaeology --- Australia --- rock art --- historiography

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric peoples --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities, Prehistoric. --- Prehistoric peoples. --- Europe --- Europe. --- Antiquities --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- prehistory --- archaeology --- archaeological heritage --- rock art --- upper paleolithic --- solutrean --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Human beings --- Prehistoric antiquities --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- ARTE --- HISTORIA --- PUBLICACIONES PERIODICAS. --- Archeology --- Primitive societies --- Antiquités

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

Archaeology --- Rock paintings--New South Wales--Sydney Basin. --- Petroglyphs. --- Visual communication in art. --- Art --- Carvings, Rock --- Engravings, Rock --- Rock carvings --- Rock engravings --- Rock inscriptions --- Stone inscriptions --- Inscriptions --- Picture-writing --- Rock paintings --- Petroglyphs --- Visual communication in art --- Art, Aboriginal Australian --- Aboriginal Australians --- Antiquities. --- Art, Aboriginal Australian. --- Rock paintings. --- Paintings, Rock --- Pictured rocks --- Rock drawings --- Art, Prehistoric --- Painting, Prehistoric --- Art, Australian aboriginal --- Aboriginal Australian art --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- rock art --- australia --- aboriginal australians --- archeology --- new south wales --- sydney basin --- Before Present --- Darug --- Dreamtime --- Kuringgai --- Pigment --- Terra Australis