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Author | : George Chaloupka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | : 9781876622091 |
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.
Author | : Mike J. Morwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Robert Layton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1992-11-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521346665 |
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.
Author | : M. J. Morwood |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2002-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781741150049 |
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.
Author | : Bruno David |
Publisher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1760461628 |
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.
Author | : Iain Davidson |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789209218 |
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?
Author | : Mike Donaldson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | : 9780980589016 |
At last! A book showcasing the Aboriginal rock art of Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula. Western Australia contains some of the oldest, most prolific, and most spectacular rock art in the world. Some of the art probably dates from about 40,000 years ago, and much dates from around the last ice age which peaked 20,000 years ago. On the Australian Heritage-listed Burrup Peninsula and surrounding islands there are an estimated one million motifs carved into the rocks. This lavishly illustrated 516-page book has more than 600 images of this amazing art.
Author | : Jo McDonald |
Publisher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2022-09-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1760465364 |
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 | : George Chaloupka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-11-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781760793630 |
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.
Author | : Jo McDonald |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 2012-06-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1118253922 |
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