Dreamtime Superhighway

Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange

von Jo Mcdonald

410 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Dreamtime Superhighway presents a thorough and original contextualization of the rock art and archaeology of the Sydney Basin. By combining excavation results with rock art analysis it demonstrates that a true archaeology of rock art can provide insights into rock art image-making in people's social and cultural lives. Based on a PhD dissertation, this monograph is a significantly revised and updated study which draws forcefully on rich and new data from extensive recent research-much of it by McDonald herself. McDonald has developed a model that suggests that visual culture-such as rock artmaking and its images and forms-could be understood as a system of communication, as a way of signaling group identifying behaviour. For the archaeologist of art, the anthropologist of art and those of us who try to think about past worlds... this monograph is a must read.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781921536168
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2008
• Größe: 297 x 208 mm
• Verlag: Anu Press