Bibliograph

Dreamtime superhighway, Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange, Jo McDonald

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Dreamtime superhighway, Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange, Jo McDonald

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Bibliography: pages 352-380

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dreamtime superhighway

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jo McDonald

Series statement

Terra Australis, 27

Sub title

Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange

Summary

"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 demontrates 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 art making and its images and forms - could be understood as a system of communication, as a way of signaling group identifying behaviour." -- cover

Table Of Contents

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 -- Excavatiions at Upside-down-man -- The contemporaneity of art and deposit -- diachronic variations in the art of the Sydney basin -- Synchronic variation: Sydney basin engraved art -- Regional synchronic variation: shelter art -- Dreamtime superhighway: modelling with a regional style

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