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The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia

Author : Bruno David
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760461628
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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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.

Art of the Ancestors: Spatial and temporal patterning in the ceiling rock art of Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land, Australia

Author : Robert G. Gunn
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789690714
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Book Synopsis Art of the Ancestors: Spatial and temporal patterning in the ceiling rock art of Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land, Australia by : Robert G. Gunn

Download or read book Art of the Ancestors: Spatial and temporal patterning in the ceiling rock art of Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land, Australia written by Robert G. Gunn and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, focusing on the ceiling art at Nawarla Gabarnmang, one of the richest rock art sites in Arnhem Land (in Australia’s Northern Territory), presents a new systematic approach to the archaeological recording and documentation of rock art developed to analyse the spatial and temporal structure of complex rock art panels.

Visions from the Past

Author : M. J. Morwood
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781741150049
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)

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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.

The Archaeology of Rock-Art

Author : Christopher Chippindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521576192
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (761 download)

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Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Rock-Art by : Christopher Chippindale

Download or read book The Archaeology of Rock-Art written by Christopher Chippindale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures, painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces, are amongst our loveliest relics from prehistory. This pioneering set of sparkling essays goes beyond guesses as to what the pictures mean, instead exploring how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times: in short, rock-art as archaeology. Sometimes contact-period records offer some direct insight about indigenous meaning, so we can learn in that informed way. More often, we have no direct record, and instead have to use formal methods to learn from the evidence of the pictures themselves. The book's eighteen papers range wide in space and time, from the Palaeolithic of Europe to nineteenth-century Australia. Using varied approaches within the consistent framework of informed and proven methods, they make key advances in using the striking and reticent evidence of rock-art to archaeological benefit.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art

Author : Bruno David
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190844957
Total Pages : 1168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art written by Bruno David and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 1168 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.

Histories of Australian Rock Art Research

Author : Jo McDonald
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760465364
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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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.

Australian Rock Art

Author : Robert Layton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521346665
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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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.

Rock Art Studies: News of the World VI

Author : Paul G. Bahn
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789699630
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Book Synopsis Rock Art Studies: News of the World VI by : Paul G. Bahn

Download or read book Rock Art Studies: News of the World VI written by Paul G. Bahn and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like previous series entries, this volume covers rock art research and management all over the world over a 5-year period, in this case 2015-19. Contributions once again show the wide variety of approaches that have been taken in different parts of the world and reflect the expansion and diversification of perspectives and research questions.

Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming

Author : Bruno David
Publisher : Leicester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming written by Bruno David and published by Leicester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apparent timelessness of the Dreaming of Aboriginal Australia has long mystified European observers, conjuring images of an ancient people in harmony with their surroundings. In this book, Bruno David examines the archaeological evidence for Dreaming-mediated places, rituals and symbolism. What emerges is not a static culture, but a mode of conceiving the world that emerged in its recognisable form only about 1000 years ago.

State of the Art

Author : Josephine McDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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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.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art

Author : Bruno David
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190844949
Total Pages : 1168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art by : Bruno David

The Rock Paintings of Arnhem Land, Australia

Author : Darrell Lewis
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rock Paintings of Arnhem Land, Australia written by Darrell Lewis and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 1988 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journey in Time

Author : George Chaloupka
Publisher : [Chatswood, NSW] : Reed
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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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.

Karrikadjurren

Author : Sally K. May
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000645339
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Karrikadjurren written by Sally K. May and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a story of art and artists in Gunbalanya, western Arnhem Land between the years 2001 and 2005, this book explores the artistic community surrounding the primary place of art creation and sale in the region, Injalak Arts, an art centre established in the remote Aboriginal community of Gunbalanya. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches including archaeological analysis and material culture studies, anthropology, historical research, oral histories, and reflexive ethnography, the social context of art creation is explored. May argues that Injalak Arts as a place activates and draws together particular social groupings to form a sense of identity and community. It is the nature of this community, or "Karrikadjurren" in the local dialect, that is the primary focus of this book, with the artworks painted during this period providing unique insights into art, identity, community, and innovation. This book will be of most interest to those working in or studying archaeology, material culture studies, museum studies, anthropology, sociology, Aboriginal studies, art history, Australian studies, rock art, and development studies. More specifically, this book will appeal to scholars with an interest in the archaeology or anthropology of art, ethnoarchaeology, and the nature and politics of community archaeology.

Journey in Time

Author : George Chaloupka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781760793630
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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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.

Injalak Hill Rock Art

Author : Injalak Arts & Crafts Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994625625
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Injalak Hill Rock Art written by Injalak Arts & Crafts Association and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Injalak Hill is a sandstone outcrop that rises majestically above the floodplains surrounding the small community of Gunbalanya in western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Home to our ancestors since time immemorial its many rock faces and shelters are world famous for the antiquity and diversity of the art found there. Injalak Arts, our Aboriginal owned artists' Association, was given the role of Djunkay (custodian) for the safekeeping and sharing of the rock art sites on Injalak Hill. This is our story.

How Rock Art Functions in a Cultural System

Author : Jennifer Galindo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book How Rock Art Functions in a Cultural System written by Jennifer Galindo and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a firsthand account of how rock art functions as part of a living cultural system, that of a group of Aboriginal people in Northern Australia. The information in this book has two voices. The first is presented as transcripts of conversations with Kunwinjku individuals. The second is the archaeologist's ethnoarchaeological analysis of the information gathered. The bulk of the ethnographic data centers on one clan estate in the country of Kudjekbinj. Its people share their Dreaming stories, and the places on the landscape associated with them, thereby describing their culture and the country on which they live. The various contexts of their culture's rock art are explored. Details of each site are shared: the paintings, their purpose and background story, the significance of their location, and the works believed to have been created by the Dreaming Beings versus those painted by the Kunwinjku people.Also presented is an ethnoarchaeological analysis that examines how rock art operates on different scales within the Kunwinjku cultural system. This includes how function varies at each scale: that of a single clan estate, between neighboring clan estates, and within the larger region. While the information shared in this book centers on a small population of Kunwinjku people in Northern Australia, the knowledge gained has wide-reaching implications for rock art research outside of Australia. This study shows that, without ethnographic information, archaeologists would not be able to access the original meaning of a motif or recreate the story associated with it. But, based on the scale of the distribution of specific motifs, it could be possible to address questions relating to social units. One of the lessons learned is that rock art cannot be studied in isolation. To understand the role of rock art in a social system requires considering it in association with environmental, ethnoarchaeological, and archaeological data, and incorporating theories developed in these other disciplines when interpreting patterns identified in rock art analysis. Using what was learned from this ethnoarchaeological project a framework is proposed to better interpret distributional patterns in archaeological rock art motifs when ethnographic information is lacking.