Dreamtime Superhighway : : Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange / / Jo McDonald . Volume 27.0

• Autore: McDonald Jo
• Pubblicazione: Canberra, : ANU Press, 2008; Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Social Science / Archaeology; Social sciences
• 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: 9781921536168; 1921536160
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910916969003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II