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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald, Jo, author.

Series:

Terra Australis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Place of Publication:

Canberra ANU Press 2008

Canberra : ANU Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781921536168

1921536160

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459083