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Autore: | McDonald Jo (Josephine) |
Titolo: | Dreamtime superhighway : an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange / / Jo McDonald |
Pubblicazione: | Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (380 pages) : colour illustrations, charts |
Disciplina: | 709.011309944 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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: | 1-921536-16-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996573772703316 |
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