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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...
