A Companion to Rock Art
Rock art, both as art and as a record of human endeavor and artistry, evokes a personal response as well as a scientific one. Its geographic range is vast - with innumerable discoveries from the deserts of Australia to the limestone caves of the Pyrenees; from the heights of the Andes to the fjords of Scandinavia. The number and diversity of sites, and how we approach them using archaeological and art historical perspectives, provides a rich landscape of ideas and narrative frameworks. A Companion to Rock Art offers an unparalleled overview of a field that has evolved significantly within the last two decades. A range of interpretive framewor…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: McDonald, Jo (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-118-25391-5
- EAN: 9781118253915
- Produktnummer: 16381378
- Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 736 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 42'418 KB
Über den Autor
Jo McDonald's career has combined cultural heritage management and rock art research. She is currently Chair and Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management at the University of Western Australia. Her major research focus, funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, is comparing rock art of the Australian and North American arid zones. She is past-President of the Australian Archaeological Association and of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc. Peter Veth's career has focused on the archaeology of Australia and Island Southeast Asia; and on global desert peoples and art in archaeological context. Peter is currently Chair in Archaeology at the University of Western Australia, an Adjunct Chair at the Australian National University, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Beginning with Islands in the Interior, he has published twelve volumes on the archaeology, art, early contact history, and native title of Australia and Island Southeast Asia. Peter has coauthored Plans of Management, National Heritage Listing reports and Outstanding Universal Values reports for art provinces in Australia.
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