A Companion to Rock Art

Copyright © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Rock Art

Editor(s): Jo McDonald, Peter Veth

Published Online: 23 JUL 2012 02:37AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781444334241

Online ISBN: 9781118253892

DOI: 10.1002/9781118253892

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This unique guide provides an artistic and archaeological journey deep into human history, exploring the petroglyphic and pictographic forms of rock art produced by the earliest humans to contemporary peoples around the world.

  • Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars
  • Includes new discoveries and research, illustrated with over 160 images (including 30 color plates) from major rock art sites around the world
  • Examines key work of noted authorities (e.g. Lewis-Williams, Conkey, Whitley and Clottes), and outlines new directions for rock art research
  • Is broadly international in scope, identifying rock art from North and South America, Australia, the Pacific, Africa, India, Siberia and Europe
  • Represents new approaches in the archaeological study of rock art, exploring issues that include gender, shamanism, landscape, identity, indigeneity, heritage and tourism, as well as technological and methodological advances in rock art analyses

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxxiv)

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      Supplemental Images (pages c1–c16)

    1. Chapter 1

      Research Issues and New Directions: One Decade into the New Millennium (pages 1–14)

      Jo McDonald and Peter Veth

  4. Part I: Explanatory Frameworks: New Insights

    1. Chapter 2

      Rock Art and Shamanism (pages 15–33)

      J. David Lewis-Williams

    2. Chapter 3

      Pictographs, Patterns, and Peyote in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas (pages 34–50)

      Carolyn E. Boyd

    3. Chapter 4

      Variation in Early Paintings and Engravings (pages 51–68)

      Iain Davidson

  5. Part II: Inscribed Landscapes

    1. Chapter 5

      Rock Art and Seascapes (pages 69–89)

      Ian J. McNiven and Liam M. Brady

    2. Chapter 6

      The Social Dynamics of Aggregation and Dispersal in the Western Desert (pages 90–102)

      Jo McDonald and Peter Veth

    3. Chapter 7

      Rock Art and Transformed Landscapes in Puerto Rico (pages 103–124)

      Michele H. Hayward and Michael A. Cinquino

  6. Part III: Rock Art at the Regional Level

    1. Chapter 8

      Megalithic Rock Art of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Seaboard Europe (pages 125–142)

      George Nash

    2. Chapter 9

      North American–Siberian Connections: Regional Rock Art Patterning Using Multivariate Statistics (pages 143–159)

      Alice Tratebas

    3. Chapter 10

      Southern Melanesian Rock Art: The New Caledonian Case (pages 160–178)

      Christophe Sand

    4. Chapter 11

      Rock Art Research in India: Historical Approaches and Recent Theoretical Directions (pages 179–196)

      James Blinkhorn, Nicole Boivin, Paul S. C. Taçon and Michael D. Petraglia

  7. Part IV: Engendered Approaches

    1. Chapter 12

      Engendering Rock Art (pages 197–213)

      Kelley Hays-Gilpin

    2. Chapter 13

      Pictures of Women: The Social Context of Australian Rock Art Production (pages 214–236)

      Jo McDonald

    3. Chapter 14

      Engendering North European Rock Art: Bodies and Cosmologies in Stone and Bronze Age Imagery (pages 237–260)

      Joakim Goldhahn and Ingrid Fuglestvedt

  8. Part V: Form, Style, and Aesthetics in Rock Art

    1. Chapter 15

      Understanding Pleistocene Rock Art: An Hermeneutics of Meaning (pages 261–275)

      Oscar Moro Abadía and Manuel R. González Morales

    2. Chapter 16

      Rock “Art” and Art: Why Aesthetics should Matter (pages 276–293)

      Thomas Heyd

    3. Chapter 17

      Recursive and Iterative Processes in Australian Rock Art: An Anthropological Perspective (pages 294–305)

      Howard Morphy

    4. Chapter 18

      A Theoretical Approach to Style in Levantine Rock Art (pages 306–321)

      Inés Domingo Sanz

  9. Part VI: Contextualizing Rock Art

    1. Chapter 19

      Rock Art in Situ: Context and Content as Keys to Meaning (pages 323–340)

      Linea Sundstrom

    2. Chapter 20

      Symbolic Discontinuities: Rock Art and Social Changes across Time and Space (pages 341–363)

      Maria Isabel Hernández Llosas

    3. Chapter 21

      Parietal Art and Archaeological Context: Activities of the Magdalenians in the Cave of Tuc d'Audoubert, France (pages 364–380)

      Robert Bégouën, Carole Fritz and Gilles Tosello

    4. Chapter 22

      Rock Art, Inherited Landscapes, and Human Populations in Southern Patagonia (pages 381–397)

      Judith Charlin and Luis A. Borrero

  10. Part VII: The Mediating Role of Rock Art

    1. Chapter 23

      When Worlds Collide Quietly: Rock Art and the Mediation of Distance (pages 399–419)

      Ursula K. Frederick

    2. Chapter 24

      Picturing Change and Changing Pictures: Contact Period Rock Art of Australia (pages 420–436)

      Paul S. C. Taçon, June Ross, Alistair Paterson and Sally May

  11. Part VIII: Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity

    1. Chapter 25

      Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity (pages 437–454)

      Robert Layton

    2. Chapter 26

      Shamanism in Indigenous Context: Understanding Siberian Rock Art (pages 455–471)

      Andrzej Rozwadowski

    3. Chapter 27

      Rock Art, Aboriginal Culture, and Identity: The Wanjina Paintings of Northwest Australia (pages 472–487)

      Valda Blundell and Donny Woolagoodja

  12. Part IX: Rock Art Management and Interpretation

    1. Chapter 28

      Rock Art and the UNESCO World Heritage List (pages 489–514)

      Nuria Sanz

    2. Chapter 29

      Safeguarding a Fragile Legacy: Managing uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Rock Art (pages 515–531)

      Aron Mazel

    3. Chapter 30

      Managing Rock Art Sites (pages 532–545)

      Valerie Magar

    4. Chapter 31

      From Discovery to Commoditization: Rock Art Management in Remote Australia (pages 546–561)

      Peter Veth

  13. Part X: Dating Rock Art: Technological Advances and Applications

    1. Chapter 32

      Radiocarbon Dating of Rock Paintings: Incorporating Pictographs into the Archaeological Record (pages 563–582)

      Karen L. Steelman and Marvin W. Rowe

    2. Chapter 33

      Twelve Years of Research in Chauvet Cave: Methodology and Main Results (pages 583–604)

      Jean Clottes and Jean-Michel Geneste

    3. Chapter 34

      In Suspect Terrain: Dating Rock Engravings (pages 605–624)

      David S. Whitley

  14. Part XI: Rock Art in the Digital Age

    1. Chapter 35

      Digital Enhancement of Deteriorated and Superimposed Pigment Art: Methods and Case Studies (pages 625–643)

      Liam M. Brady and Robert G. Gunn

    2. Chapter 36

      Robust and Scientifically Reliable Rock Art Documentation from Digital Photographs (pages 644–659)

      Mark Mudge, Carla Schroer, Tommy Noble, Neffra Matthews, Szymon Rusinkiewicz and Corey Toler-Franklin

    3. Chapter 37

      Engaging a New Digital Citizenry (pages 660–669)

      Michael Ashley and Cinzia Perlingieri

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      Index (pages 670–680)

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