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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