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Dreamtime Superhighway: Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange

Dreamtime Superhighway: Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange

McDonald, Jo

Paperback

Series: Terra Australis, Book 27

Australia & OceaniaArchaeology

ISBN10: 1921536160
ISBN13: 9781921536168
Publisher: Australian Natl Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 2008
Pages: 410
Weight: 2.90
Height: 1.11 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English
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.

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