Companion to Rock Art

Informationen zum Autor The Editors Jo McDonald 's career has combined cultural heritage management and rock art research. She is currently Chair and Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management at the University of Western Australia. Her major research focus, funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, is comparing rock art of the Australian and North American arid zones. She is past-President of the Australian Archaeological Association and of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc. Peter Veth 's career has focused on the archaeology of Australia and Island Southeast Asia; and on global desert peoples and art in archaeological context. Peter is currently Chair in Archaeology at the University of Western Australia, an Adjunct Chair at the Australian National University, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Beginning with Islands in the Interior , he has published twelve volumes on the archaeology, art, early contact history, and native title of Australia and Island Southeast Asia. Peter has coauthored Plans of Management, National Heritage Listing reports and Outstanding Universal Values reports for art provinces in Australia. Klappentext Rock art, both as art and as a record of human endeavor and artistry, evokes a personal response as well as a scientific one. Its geographic range is vast - with innumerable discoveries from the deserts of Australia to the limestone caves of the Pyrenees; from the heights of the Andes to the fjords of Scandinavia. The number and diversity of sites, and how we approach them using archaeological and art historical perspectives, provides a rich landscape of ideas and narrative frameworks. A Companion to Rock Art offers an unparalleled overview of a field that has evolved significantly within the last two decades. A range of interpretive frameworks within which petroglyph and pictograph art forms can be understood is examined in detail. This exciting field of enquiry continues to engage both researchers and the general public, with the search for elusive meanings in the images. Whether they were produced for the exchange of information; for secular or sacred purposes; for signaling alliance networks and identity; or as legacies of origin narratives are just some of the challenging questions that confront the modern archaeologist. Leading international scholars provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of theoretical and methodological developments in the field, and illustrations and photographs ably support the text. This Companion is an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors, and students in anthropology, archaeology, religious studies, and prehistoric art. "Overall, this is a fine compendium, and all rock art researchers will need to read it. Aimed at a sophisticated audience. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above." ( Choice , 1 June 2013) Zusammenfassung * Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars * Includes new research data and color plates with imagery from major rock art provinces around the world * Examines key work of existing authorities (e.g. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Plates ix List of Figures xi List of Tables xvi Notes on Contributors xviii Foreword: Redefining the Mainstream with Rock Art xxix Margaret W. Conkey 1 Research Issues and New Directions: One Decade into the New Millennium 1 Jo McDonald and Peter Veth Part I Explanatory Frameworks: New Insights 15 2 Rock Art and Shamanism 17 J. David Lewis-Williams 3 Pictographs, Patterns, and Peyote in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas 34 Carolyn E. Boyd 4 Variation in Early Paintings and Engravings 51 Iain Davidson P...

List of contents

List of Plates ix
 
List of Figures xi
 
List of Tables xvi
 
Notes on Contributors xviii
 
Foreword: Redefining the Mainstream with Rock Art xxix
Margaret W. Conkey
 
1 Research Issues and New Directions: One Decade into the New Millennium 1
Jo McDonald and Peter Veth
 
Part I Explanatory Frameworks: New Insights 15
 
2 Rock Art and Shamanism 17
J. David Lewis-Williams
 
3 Pictographs, Patterns, and Peyote in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas 34
Carolyn E. Boyd
 
4 Variation in Early Paintings and Engravings 51
Iain Davidson
 
Part II Inscribed Landscapes 69
 
5 Rock Art and Seascapes 71
Ian J. McNiven and Liam M. Brady
 
6 The Social Dynamics of Aggregation and Dispersal in the Western Desert 90
Jo McDonald and Peter Veth
 
7 Rock Art and Transformed Landscapes in Puerto Rico 103
Michele H. Hayward and Michael A. Cinquino
 
Part III Rock Art at the Regional Level 125
 
8 Megalithic Rock Art of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Seaboard Europe 127
George Nash
 
9 North American-Siberian Connections: Regional Rock Art Patterning Using Multivariate Statistics 143
Alice Tratebas
 
10 Southern Melanesian Rock Art: The New Caledonian Case 160
Christophe Sand
 
11 Rock Art Research in India: Historical Approaches and Recent Theoretical Directions 179
James Blinkhorn, Nicole Boivin, Paul S. C. Taçon, and Michael D. Petraglia
 
Part IV Engendered Approaches 197
 
12 Engendering Rock Art 199
Kelley Hays-Gilpin
 
13 Pictures of Women: The Social Context of Australian Rock Art Production 214
Jo McDonald
 
14 Engendering North European Rock Art: Bodies and Cosmologies in Stone and Bronze Age Imagery 237
Joakim Goldhahn and Ingrid Fuglestvedt
 
Part V Form, Style, and Aesthetics in Rock Art 261
 
15 Understanding Pleistocene Rock Art: An Hermeneutics of Meaning 263
Oscar Moro Abadía and Manuel R. González Morales
 
16 Rock "Art" and Art: Why Aesthetics Should Matter 276
Thomas Heyd
 
17 Recursive and Iterative Processes in Australian Rock Art: An Anthropological Perspective 294
Howard Morphy
 
18 A Theoretical Approach to Style in Levantine Rock Art 306
Inés Domingo Sanz
 
Part VI Contextualizing Rock Art 323
 
19 Rock Art in Situ: Context and Content as Keys to Meaning 325
Linea Sundstrom
 
20 Symbolic Discontinuities: Rock Art and Social Changes across Time and Space 341
Maria Isabel Hernández Llosas
 
21 Parietal Art and Archaeological Context: Activities of the Magdalenians in the Cave of Tuc d'Audoubert, France 364
Robert Bégouën, Carole Fritz, and Gilles Tosello
 
22 Rock Art, Inherited Landscapes, and Human Populations in Southern Patagonia 381
Judith Charlin and Luis A. Borrero
 
Part VII The Mediating Role of Rock Art 399
 
23 When Worlds Collide Quietly: Rock Art and the Mediation of Distance 401
Ursula K. Frederick
 
24 Picturing Change and Changing Pictures: Contact Period Rock Art of Australia 420
Paul S.C. Taçon, June Ross, Alistair Paterson, and Sally May
 
Part VIII Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity 437
 
25 Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity 439
Robert Layton
 
26 Shamanism in Indigenous Context: Understanding Siberian Rock Art 455
Andrzej Rozwadowski
 
27 Rock Art, Aboriginal Culture, and Identity: The Wanjina Paintings of Northwest Australia 472
Valda Blundell and Donny Woolagoodja
 
Part IX Rock Art Management and Interpretation 489
 
28 Rock Art and the UNESCO World Heritage List 491
Nuria Sanz
 
29 Safeguarding a Fragile Legacy: Managing uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Rock Art 515

Report

"To summarise, as stated by Conkey in the foreword, this volume is a clear example of how in the twenty-first century rock art is considered a topic of archaeological inquiry, leaving behind the times when it was excluded from the archaeological discussions because of its problematic dating and interpretation (see Whitley 2001 for details about the North American case; or Morwood 2002: 64-88 for the Australian case)." ( Archaeology In Oceania , 2 October 2013)

"Overall, this is a fine compendium, and all rock art researchers will need to read it. Aimed at a sophisticated audience. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above." ( Choice , 1 June 2013)

Product details

• Authors: J McDonald, Jo Mcdonald, Jo (Australian National University) Veth Mcdonald, Jo Veth Mcdonald, John (EDT)/ Veth McDonald, Peter Veth
• Assisted by: J McDonald (Editor), Jo Mcdonald (Editor), John McDonald (Editor), McDonald Jo (Editor), Veth (Editor), Veth (Editor), Peter Veth (Editor), Veth Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2012
• EAN: 9781444334241
• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3424-1
• No. of pages: 720
• Series: Blackwell Companions to Anthropology; Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology; Best of Language Learning; WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO; Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology; Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Kunst, Archäologie, Archaeology, Social Archaeology, Sozialarchäologie, Prehistoric styles