Perceiving Rock Art

Author : Christopher Chippindale,Paul S. C. Taçon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521576199

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The Archaeology of Rock-Art by Christopher Chippindale,Paul S. C. Taçon Pdf

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.

Author : Knut Helskog (red.),Bjørnar Olsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Congresses
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022843556

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Perceiving Rock Art by Knut Helskog (red.),Bjørnar Olsen Pdf

Author : David S. Whitley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0742502562

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Handbook of Rock Art Research by David S. Whitley Pdf

While there has always been a large public interest in ancient pictures painted or carved on stone, the archaeological study of rock art is in its infancy. But intensive amounts of research has revolutionized this field in the past decade. New methods of dating and analysis help to pinpoint the makers of these beautiful images, new interpretive models help us understand this art in relation to culture. Identification, conservation and management of rock art sites have become major issues in historical preservation worldwide. And the number of archaeologically attested sites has mushroomed. In this handbook, the leading researchers in the rock art area provide cogent, state-of-the-art summaries of the technical, interpretive, and regional advances in rock art research. The book offers a comprehensive, basic reference of current information on key topics over six continents for archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and rock art enthusiasts.

Author : M. Rosengren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137271976

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Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge by M. Rosengren Pdf

Using the example of prehistoric paintings discovered in the late 19th century in Spain and France Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge inquires into epistemic questions related to images, depicting and perception that this rich material has given rise to. The book traces the outline of the doxa of cave art studies.

Author : Andrzej Rozwadowski,Jamie Hampson
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789698473

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Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present by Andrzej Rozwadowski,Jamie Hampson Pdf

This book presents a fresh perspective on rock art by considering how ancient images function in the present. It focuses on how ancient heritage is recognized and reified in the modern world, and how rock art stimulates contemporary processes of cultural identity-making.

Author : Jo McDonald
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760465360

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Histories of Australian Rock Art Research by Jo McDonald Pdf

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.

Author : Benjamin Smith,Knut Helskog,David Morris
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781868148073

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Working with Rock Art by Benjamin Smith,Knut Helskog,David Morris Pdf

Cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. This volume contains contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion, and it therefore makes a significant contribution to the discipline. The volume aims to promote the sharing of new experiences between leading researchers in the field. While the geographic focus is truly global, there is a dominant north-south axis with strong representation from researchers in southern Africa and northern Europe, two leading centres for new approaches in rock art research. Working with Rock Art opens up a long overdue dialogue about shared experiences between these two centres, and a number of the chapters are the first published results of new collaborative research. Since this volume covers the recording, interpretation and presentation of rock art, it will attract a wide audience of researchers, heritage managers and students, as well as anyone interested in the field of rock art studies.

Author : Jo McDonald,Peter Veth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118253922

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A Companion to Rock Art by Jo McDonald,Peter Veth Pdf

This unique guide provides an artistic and archaeological journey deep into human history, exploring the petroglyphic and pictographic forms of rock art produced by the earliest humans to contemporary peoples around the world. Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars Includes new discoveries and research, illustrated with over 160 images (including 30 color plates) from major rock art sites around the world Examines key work of noted authorities (e.g. Lewis-Williams, Conkey, Whitley and Clottes), and outlines new directions for rock art research Is broadly international in scope, identifying rock art from North and South America, Australia, the Pacific, Africa, India, Siberia and Europe Represents new approaches in the archaeological study of rock art, exploring issues that include gender, shamanism, landscape, identity, indigeneity, heritage and tourism, as well as technological and methodological advances in rock art analyses

Author : Jamie Hampson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315420714

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Rock Art and Regional Identity by Jamie Hampson Pdf

Why did the ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean? This careful study of rock art motifs in the Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in South Africa demonstrates that there are archaeological and anthropological ways of accessing the past in order to investigate and explain the significance of rock art motifs. Using two disparate regions shows the possibility of comparative rock art studies and highlights the importance of regional studies and regional variations. This is an ideal resource for students and researchers.

Author : Timothy Darvill,Antonio Batarda Fernandes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135014735

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Open-Air Rock-Art Conservation and Management by Timothy Darvill,Antonio Batarda Fernandes Pdf

While much has been achieved in understanding and managing weather effects and erosion phenomena affecting ancient imagery within the relatively protected environments of caves and rock-shelters, the same cannot be said of rock-art panels situated in the open-air. Despite the fact that the number of known sites has risen dramatically in recent decades there are few examples in which the weathering and erosion dynamics are under investigation with a view to developing proposals to mitigate the impact of natural and cultural processes. Most of the work being done in different parts of the world appears to be ad-hoc, with minimal communication on such matters between teams and with the wider archaeological community. This richly illustrated book evaluates rock-art conservation in an holistic way, bringing together researchers from across the world to share experiences of work in progress or recently completed. The chapters focus on a series of key themes: documentation projects and resource assessments; the identification and impact assessment of weathering/erosion processes at work in open-air rock-art sites; the practicalities of potential or implemented conservation interventions; experimentation and monitoring programs; and general management issues connected with public presentation and the demands of ongoing research investigations. Consideration is given to the conservation of open-air rock-art imagery from many periods and cultural traditions across the Old and New Worlds. This timely volume will be of interest to conservators, managers, and researchers dealing with aesthetic and ethical issues as well as technical and practical matters regarding the conservation of open-air rock-art sites.

Author : David Whitley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315425993

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Introduction to Rock Art Research by David Whitley Pdf

First published in 2005, this brief introduction to methods of studying rock art has become the standard text for courses on this topic. It was also selected as a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book in 2005. Internationally-known rock art researcher David Whitley takes the reader through the various processes needed to document, interpret, and preserve this fragile category of artifact. Using examples from around the globe, he offers a comprehensive guide to rock art studies of value to archaeologists and art historians, their students, and rock art aficionados. The second edition of this classic work has additional material on mapping sites, ethnographic analogy, neuropsychological models, and Native American consultation.

Author : Jamie Hampson,Sam Challis,Joakim Goldhahn
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781803273891

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Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories around the World by Jamie Hampson,Sam Challis,Joakim Goldhahn Pdf

Focusing on stunning paintings and engravings from around the world, 16 papers interrogate the driving forces behind global rock art research. Many of the motifs featured were created by indigenous hunter-gatherer groups; this book sheds new light on non-Western rituals and worldviews, many of which are threatened or on the point of extinction.

Author : Ingrid Fuglestvedt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351610483

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Rock Art and the Wild Mind by Ingrid Fuglestvedt Pdf

Rock Art and the Wild Mind presents a study of Mesolithic rock art on the Scandinavian peninsula, including the large rock art sites in Alta, Nämforsen and Vingen. Hunters’ rock art of this area, despite local styles, bears a strong commonality in what it depicts, most often terrestrial big game in diverse confrontations with the human realm. The various types of compositions are defined as visual thematizations of the enigmatic relationship between humans and big game animals. These thematizations, here defined as motemes, are explained as being products of the Mesolithic mind ‘in action’, observed through repetitions, variations and transformations of a number of defined motemes. Through a transformational logic, the transition from ‘animic’ to ‘totemic’ rock art is observed. Totemic rock art reaches a peak during the final stages of the Late Mesolithic, and it is suggested that this can be interpreted as representing an increasing focus on human society towards the end of this era. The move from animism to totemism is explained as being part of the overall social development on the Scandinavian peninsula. This book will be of interest to students of rock art generally and scholars working on the historical developments of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in northern Europe. It will also appeal to students and academics in the fields of art history and aesthetics and to those interested in the work of Lévi-Strauss.

Author : Heidrun Stebergløkken,Ragnhild Berge,Eva Lindgaard
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784911591

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Ritual Landscapes and Borders within Rock Art Research by Heidrun Stebergløkken,Ragnhild Berge,Eva Lindgaard Pdf

Ritual landscapes and borders are recurring themes running through Professor Kalle Sognnes' long research career. This anthology contains 13 articles written by colleagues from his broad network in appreciation of his many contributions to the field of rock art research.

Author : Ajay Pratap
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784912468

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Rock Art of the Vindhyas: An Archaeological Survey by Ajay Pratap Pdf

How does rock art as an object fashioned by human hands then differ from tools? What utility does it have beyond its symbolic value? The Vindhyan corpus of rock paintings has provided us with a very valuable opportunity to be answering such questions