Dreamtime superhighway : an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange / Jo McDonald.
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TextSeries: Terra Australis ; 27.Publisher: Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2008Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 380 pages : illustrations (some color), maps)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781921536175
- 1921536179
- Rock paintings -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.)
- Petroglyphs -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.)
- Visual communication in art -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.)
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) -- Antiquities
- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) -- Antiquities
- Archaeology
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology
- Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities
- Antiquities
- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Petroglyphs
- Rock paintings
- Visual communication in art
- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Rock paintings -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Petroglyphs -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Visual communication in art -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin -- Antiquities
- Rock paintings -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Petroglyphs -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Visual communication in art -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin -- Antiquities
- 709.011309944 22
- GN667.S93
Includes bibliographical references.
-- Introduction -- The Sydney Basin -- Environmental Context -- Social context -- Archaeological context -- The rock art of the Sydney Basin -- Excavations at Yengo 1 and Yengo 2 -- Excavation at the Great Mackerel Rockshelter -- Excavations at Upside-Down-Man -- The Contemporaneity of Art and Deposit -- Diachronic variation in the art of the Sydney Basin -- Synchronic variation: Sydney Basin engraved art -- Regional synchronic variation: shelter art -- Dreamtime superhighway: modelling a regional style.
"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. McDonald has developed a model that suggests that visual culture - such as rock art-making and its images and forms - could be understood as a system of communication, as a way of signaling group identifying behaviour."--Provided by publisher.
English.
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