Dreamtime superhighway : an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange / / Jo McDonald
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McDonald Jo
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| Titolo: |
Dreamtime superhighway : an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange / / Jo McDonald
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| Pubblicazione: | Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (380 pages) : colour illustrations, charts |
| Disciplina: | 709.011309944 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rock paintings--New South Wales--Sydney Basin |
| 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 | |
| Archaeology | |
| Aboriginal Australians - Antiquities | |
| Antiquities | |
| Art, Aboriginal Australian | |
| Rock paintings | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dreamtime superhighway |
| ISBN: | 9781921536175 (PDF ebook) |
| 9781921536168 (paperback) | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910141820703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Terra Australis ; ; 27