Dreamtime superhighway : an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange / / Jo McDonald

• Autore: McDonald Jo (Josephine)
• 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.: 9910563076603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Terra Australis ; ; 27