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Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia's Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually most impressive regional assemblages anywhere in the world. To better understand this multi-dimensional cultural record, The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia focuses on the nature and antiquity of the region's rock art as revealed by archaeological surveys and excavations, and the application of novel analytical methods. This volume also presents new findings by which to rethink how Aboriginal peoples have socially engaged in and with places across western Arnhem Land, from the north to the south, from the plains to the spectacular rocky landscapes of the plateau. The dynamic nature of Arnhem Land rock art is explored and articulated in innovative ways that shed new light on the region's deep time Aboriginal history.
Archaeology. --- Art, Aboriginal Australian. --- Historic sites. --- Art, Australian aboriginal --- Aboriginal Australian art --- Archeology --- Heritage places, Historic --- Heritage sites, Historic --- Historic heritage places --- Historic heritage sites --- Historic places --- Historical sites --- Places, Historic --- Sites, Historic --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Archaeology --- Historic buildings --- Monuments --- World Heritage areas --- Arnhem Land (N.T.) --- Antiquities. --- rock art --- arnhem land --- australia --- northern territory --- Anthropomorphism --- Beeswax --- Before Present --- Radiocarbon dating --- Stratum --- Terra Australis --- Art - Rock art. --- Dating and chronology. --- Art - Rock art - Dating and attribution. --- Painting, Aboriginal Australian --- Historic sites --- Art - Subjects - Dynamic figures. --- Gunbalanya / Oenpelli (West Arnhem Land NT SD53-01)
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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
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