Dreamtime Superhighway: Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange

Dreamtime Superhighway: Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange
ISBN-10
1921536179
ISBN-13
9781921536175
Category
Science
Pages
380
Language
English
Published
2008-08-01
Publisher
ANU E Press
Author
Jo McDonald

Description

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.

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