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McDonald Jo (Josephine) |
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Titolo |
Dreamtime superhighway : an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange / / Jo McDonald |
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Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (380 pages) : colour illustrations, charts |
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Petroglyphs |
Visual communication in art |
Rock paintings - Australia - Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) |
Petroglyphs - Australia - Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) |
Visual communication in art - Australia - Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) |
Art, Aboriginal Australian - Australia - Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) |
Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) - Antiquities |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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