02175nam 22004453a 450 991091696900332120250203235448.09781921536168192153616010.26530/OAPEN_459083(CKB)36717499700041(ScCtBLL)ce862e5a-0b06-4bce-8af2-9cbe6c92a67c(Perlego)2804707(oapen)doab28427(EXLCZ)993671749970004120250203i20082020 uu engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDreamtime Superhighway : Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange /Jo McDonaldVolume 27.0CanberraANU Press2008Canberra :ANU Press,2008.1 online resource (1 p.)Terra Australis9781921536175 1921536179 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.Social Science / ArchaeologybisacshSocial sciencesSocial Science / ArchaeologySocial sciences.McDonald Jo801554ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910916969003321Dreamtime superhighway2836121UNINA