McDonald / Veth A Companion to Rock Art

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-25391-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 736 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology

This unique guide provides an artistic and archaeological journeydeep into human history, exploring the petroglyphic andpictographic forms of rock art produced by the earliest humans tocontemporary peoples around the world.
* Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art fromleading international scholars
* Includes new discoveries and research, illustrated with over160 images (including 30 color plates) from major rock art sitesaround the world
* Examines key work of noted authorities (e.g. Lewis-Williams,Conkey, Whitley and Clottes), and outlines new directions for rockart research
* Is broadly international in scope, identifying rock art fromNorth and South America, Australia, the Pacific, Africa, India,Siberia and Europe
* Represents new approaches in the archaeological study of rockart, exploring issues that include gender, shamanism, landscape,identity, indigeneity, heritage and tourism, as well astechnological and methodological advances in rock art analyses

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDonald, Jo

Veth, Peter

Über Autor(innen)

Jo McDonald's career has combined cultural heritagemanagement and rock art research. She is currently Chair andDirector of the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management at theUniversity of Western Australia. Her major research focus, fundedby an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, is comparingrock art of the Australian and North American arid zones. She ispast-President of the Australian Archaeological Association and ofthe Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc.
Peter Veth's career has focused on the archaeologyof Australia and Island Southeast Asia; and on global desertpeoples and art in archaeological context. Peter is currently Chairin Archaeology at the University of Western Australia, an AdjunctChair at the Australian National University, and Fellow of theAustralian Academy of the Humanities. Beginning with Islands inthe Interior, he has published twelve volumes on thearchaeology, art, early contact history, and native title ofAustralia and Island Southeast Asia. Peter has coauthored Plans ofManagement, National Heritage Listing reports and OutstandingUniversal Values reports for art provinces in Australia.