|  | McDonald, Jo / Veth, Peter (eds.)
A Companion to Rock Art
Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
 1. Edition August 2012
142.- Euro
2012. 714 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4443-3424-1 - John Wiley & Sons
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A Companion to Rock Art offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last decades into an exploration of petroglyphic and pictographic art forms around the world. The enigmatic field of rock art continues to engage students and researchers in searching for the elusive meanings in the images and motifs produced by prehistoric and early modern humans. Top international scholars will provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of developments in the field, and this new companion will be an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors and students.
From the contents
List of Plates ix
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xvi
Notes on Contributors xviii
Foreword: Redefining the Mainstream with Rock Art xxix
Margaret W. Conkey
1 Research Issues and New Directions: One Decade into the New Millennium 1
Jo McDonald and Peter Veth
Part I Explanatory Frameworks: New Insights 15
2 Rock Art and Shamanism 17
J. David Lewis-Williams
3 Pictographs, Patterns, and Peyote in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas 34
Carolyn E. Boyd
4 Variation in Early Paintings and Engravings 51
Iain Davidson
Part II Inscribed Landscapes 69
5 Rock Art and Seascapes 71
Ian J. McNiven and Liam M. Brady
6 The Social Dynamics of Aggregation and Dispersal in the Western Desert 90
Jo McDonald and Peter Veth
7 Rock Art and Transformed Landscapes in Puerto Rico 103
Michele H. Hayward and Michael A. Cinquino
Part III Rock Art at the Regional Level 125
8 Megalithic Rock Art of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Seaboard Europe 127
George Nash
9 North American-Siberian Connections: Regional Rock Art Patterning Using Multivariate Statistics 143
Alice Tratebas
10 Southern Melanesian Rock Art: The New Caledonian Case 160
Christophe Sand
11 Rock Art Research in India: Historical Approaches and Recent Theoretical Directions 179
James Blinkhorn, Nicole Boivin, Paul S. C. Taçon, and Michael D. Petraglia
Part IV Engendered Approaches 197
12 Engendering Rock Art 199
Kelley Hays-Gilpin
13 Pictures of Women: The Social Context of Australian Rock Art Production 214
Jo McDonald
14 Engendering North European Rock Art: Bodies and Cosmologies in Stone and Bronze Age Imagery 237
Joakim Goldhahn and Ingrid Fuglestvedt
Part V Form, Style, and Aesthetics in Rock Art 261
15 Understanding Pleistocene Rock Art: An Hermeneutics of Meaning 263
Oscar Moro Abadía and Manuel R. González Morales
16 Rock "Art" and Art: Why Aesthetics Should Matter 276
Thomas Heyd
17 Recursive and Iterative Processes in Australian Rock Art: An Anthropological Perspective 294
Howard Morphy
18 A Theoretical Approach to Style in Levantine Rock Art 306
Inés Domingo Sanz
Part VI Contextualizing Rock Art 323
19 Rock Art in Situ: Context and Content as Keys to Meaning 325
Linea Sundstrom
20 Symbolic Discontinuities: Rock Art and Social Changes across Time and Space 341
Maria Isabel Hernández Llosas
21 Parietal Art and Archaeological Context: Activities of the Magdalenians in the Cave of Tuc d'Audoubert, France 364
Robert Bégouën, Carole Fritz, and Gilles Tosello
22 Rock Art, Inherited Landscapes, and Human Populations in Southern Patagonia 381
Judith Charlin and Luis A. Borrero
Part VII The Mediating Role of Rock Art 399
23 When Worlds Collide Quietly: Rock Art and the Mediation of Distance 401
Ursula K. Frederick
24 Picturing Change and Changing Pictures: Contact Period Rock Art of Australia 420
Paul S.C. Taçon, June Ross, Alistair Paterson, and Sally May
Part VIII Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity 437
25 Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity 439
Robert Layton
26 Shamanism in Indigenous Context: Understanding Siberian Rock Art 455
Andrzej Rozwadowski
27 Rock Art, Aboriginal Culture, and Identity: The Wanjina Paintings of Northwest Australia 472
Valda Blundell and Donny Woolagoodja
Part IX Rock Art Management and Interpretation 489
28 Rock Art and the UNESCO World Heritage List 491
Nuria Sanz
29 Safeguarding a Fragile Legacy: Managing uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Rock Art 515
Aron Mazel
30 Managing Rock Art Sites 532
Valerie Magar
31 From Discovery to Commoditization: Rock Art Management in Remote Australia 546
Peter Veth
Part X Dating Rock Art: Technological Advances and Applications 563
32 Radiocarbon Dating of Rock Paintings: Incorporating Pictographs into the Archaeological Record 565
Karen L. Steelman and Marvin W. Rowe
33 Twelve Years of Research in Chauvet Cave: Methodology and Main Results 583
Jean Clottes and Jean-Michel Geneste
34 In Suspect Terrain: Dating Rock Engravings 605
David S. Whitley
Part XI Rock Art in the Digital Age 625
35 Digital Enhancement of Deteriorated and Superimposed Pigment Art: Methods and Case Studies 627
Liam M. Brady and Robert G. Gunn
36 Robust and Scientifically Reliable Rock Art Documentation from Digital Photographs 644
Mark Mudge, Carla Schroer, Tommy Noble, Neffra Matthews, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and Corey Toler-Franklin
37 Engaging a New Digital Citizenry 660
Michael Ashley and Cinzia Perlingieri
Index 670
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