
Dreamtime Superhighway
Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange
Authored by: Jo McDonald
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Description
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.
Margaret W. Conkey
University of California, Berkeley
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9781921536168
- ISBN (online):
- 9781921536175
- Publication date:
- Aug 2008
- Note:
- Terra Australis 27
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/DS.08.2008
- Series:
- Terra Australis
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Archaeology, Art & Music; Social Sciences: Indigenous Studies
- Countries:
- Australia
PDF Chapters
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- Preliminary Pages (PDF, 745KB)
- Foreword (PDF, 229KB)
- Table of Contents (PDF, 869KB)
- Abstract (PDF, 227KB)
- Acknowledgements and Preface (PDF, 306KB)
- Introduction (PDF, 488KB)
- The Sydney Basin – Environmental Context (PDF, 1.3MB)
- Social context (PDF, 1.0MB)
- Archaeological context (PDF, 926KB)
- The rock art of the Sydney Basin (PDF, 3.5MB)
- Excavations at Yengo 1 and Yengo 2 (PDF, 7.5MB)
- Excavation at the Great Mackerel Rockshelter (PDF, 3.8MB)
- Excavations at Upside-Down-Man (PDF, 6.1MB)
- The Contemporaneity of Art and Deposit (PDF, 1.7MB)
- Diachronic variation in the art of the Sydney Basin (PDF, 3.2MB)
- Synchronic variation: Sydney Basin engraved art (PDF, 6.0MB)
- Regional synchronic variation: shelter art (PDF, 7.2MB)
- Dreamtime superhighway: modelling a regional style (PDF, 2.0MB)
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