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Book Synopsis A Tour of Australian Rock Art by : Leon Yost
Download or read book A Tour of Australian Rock Art written by Leon Yost and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly photographed tour of three Australian rock art regions: Cape York Peninsula in the northeast, the Wardaman tribal land in northwestern Northern Territory and Kakadu National Park in northeastern Northern Territory. Remnants of Aboriginal culture still survive in these outback places-well separated from the coastal cities where most of the new populations reside. With no written language, the Aboriginals' oral stories are their history, evocatively illustrated in pictographs and petroglyphs on the walls of their rock shelters. Much of the art illuminates events from the creation, or dreamtime, when trees could walk and animals could talk.68 pages, 75 color images
Book Synopsis Australian Rock Art by : Robert Layton
Download or read book Australian Rock Art written by Robert Layton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-11-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of Australian rock art, presenting detailed case studies revealing the significance of both recent and ancient art for Australia's living indigenous communities.
Book Synopsis Histories of Australian Rock Art Research by : Jo McDonald
Download or read book Histories of Australian Rock Art Research written by Jo McDonald and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Making Scenes written by Iain Davidson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dating back to at least 50,000 years ago, rock art is one of the oldest forms of human symbolic expression. Geographically, it spans all the continents on Earth. Scenes are common in some rock art, and recent work suggests that there are some hints of expression that looks like some of the conventions of western scenic art. In this unique volume examining the nature of scenes in rock art, researchers examine what defines a scene, what are the necessary elements of a scene, and what can the evolutionary history tell us about storytelling, sequential memory, and cognitive evolution among ancient and living cultures?
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia by : Bruno David
Download or read book The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia written by Bruno David and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Journey in Time by : George Chaloupka
Download or read book Journey in Time written by George Chaloupka and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 50,000-year story of the Australian Aboriginal rock art of Arnhem Land. Aboriginal rock art, as practised in Arnhem Land, is the world's longest continuing art tradition. It is a tradition that is not merely decorative, but provides a journey in time - a pictoral record of the longest surviving culture on earth.
Download or read book Rock Art Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rock Art and Ethnography by : Mike J. Morwood
Download or read book Rock Art and Ethnography written by Mike J. Morwood and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of Symposia H and O of the first Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA) Congress, with contributions by 21 authors, 10 of them dealing with Aboriginal art in Australia and others covering Japanese, Indian and East African rock art. Number 5 in the TOccasional Aura Paper' series.
Book Synopsis Visions from the Past by : M. J. Morwood
Download or read book Visions from the Past written by M. J. Morwood and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions from the Past is a clear and comprehensive examination of Aboriginal rock art. It also provides a practical overview of precisely how and why archaeologist study prehistoric art.
Book Synopsis Journey in Time by : George Chaloupka
Download or read book Journey in Time written by George Chaloupka and published by [Chatswood, NSW] : Reed. This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The land - Ancestral past - The people - Rock art - Pre-estuarine period - Estuarine period - Freshwater period - Contact period - Rock paintings.
Book Synopsis Journey in Time by : George Chaloupka
Download or read book Journey in Time written by George Chaloupka and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 50,000-year story of the Australian Aboriginal rock art of Arnhem Land.Aboriginal rock art, as practised in Arnhem Land, is the world's longest continuing art tradition. It is a tradition that is not merely decorative, but provides a "journey in time" - a pictorial record of the longest surviving culture on earth. Occurring at thousands of different sites, and of many different styles, the rock paintings of this region date from at least 30,000 years ago, and some may have been in place as early as 50,000 years ago.The oldest galleries pre-date the Hall of Bulls and Lascaux in France. This book explores the depth and complexity of this art tradition and gives insight into the aesthetic and cultural worlds of the people who created it.Journey in Time has been written and illustrated with the permission of the Gagudju people, the traditional owners of the land.
Book Synopsis The Enigma of Bradshaw Rock Art by : Jack Pettigrew
Download or read book The Enigma of Bradshaw Rock Art written by Jack Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those Lucky enough to encounter a Bradshaw rock painting often describe the moments powerful enough to unfold magical effects that touch and hold the observer for a lifetime" (Reto Weiler). Hauntingly beautiful, world heritage status rock art images from the Kimberley intrigues its origins and the identity of its artists. Despite decades of independent research by dedicated 'Kimberley' based individuals, and the recent plethora of funded research it has resisted all efforts to decipher this very early Bradshaw Period of rock art. Radiometric dating techniques have failed to produce conclusive dates of its origins or age. In the present study, superimposition of the five different evolutionary styles produces an ordinal time line that was then calibrated by absolute dates from biological markers. The research for this book revealed a Pleistocene floodplain culture that may have thrived with boabs on the shore from around 50-60 kya, while visiting the rocky plateau for religious and artistic pursuits. Cultural evolution was punctuated by the dramatic tidal recessions of the Pleistocene, and terminated by the 120 -140 metre inundation that marked the end of the Pleistocene and the creation of the present Kimberley coastline.
Book Synopsis Rock Art and Ethnography by : Australian Rock Art Research Association. Symposium H
Download or read book Rock Art and Ethnography written by Australian Rock Art Research Association. Symposium H and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Australian Aboriginal Rock Art by : Frederick David McCarthy
Download or read book Australian Aboriginal Rock Art written by Frederick David McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of Australian rock art; engravings SydneyHawkesbury area, lower Murray River, Port Hedland, Panaramitee; linear and intaglio engravings subjects - Mootwingie, west and south Queensland; antiquity of petroglyphs; superiority of northern and central Australian paintings, materials used, styles (New South Wales, Queensland, Arnhem Land, Kimberleys, Central Australia); survey of sites throughout Australia with mythological interpretations; antiquity of paintings; theories of origin of Wandjunas.
Book Synopsis State of the Art by : Josephine McDonald
Download or read book State of the Art written by Josephine McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of two symposiums, TRock Art Studies in Australia and Oceania' and TThe Rock Art of Northern Australia' held at the first Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA) Congress in Darwin in 1988. The 21 papers are supplemented by tables and detailed bibliographies. TOccasional AURA Publication' number six.
Book Synopsis Rock Paintings of Aboriginal Australia by : Elaine Godden
Download or read book Rock Paintings of Aboriginal Australia written by Elaine Godden and published by Reed Publishing (NZ). This book was released on 1997 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic collection of Aboriginal rock art from Tasmania to the Kimberley accompanied by text explaining the paintings and their stories.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art by : Bruno David
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art written by Bruno David and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 1185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
