Narratives and journeys in rock art : : a reader / / edited by George Nash and Aron Mazel.

• Author: Nash, George
• TeilnehmendeR: Nash, George,; Mazel, Aron D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress Publishing Limited,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (703 pages) :; illustrations (some color), charts

Why publish a Reader? Today, it is relatively easy and convenient to switch on your computer and download an academic paper. However, as many scholars have experienced, historic references are difficult to access. Moreover, some are now lost and are merely references in later papers. This can be frustrating.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Introduction -- Seeing and Construing -- The Making and 'Meaning' of a Southern African Rock Art Motif -- J.D. Lewis-Williams -- An Introduction to the Problems of Southern African Rock Art Regions: -- The Rock Art of Bongani Mountain Lodge and its Environs -- Jamie Hampson, William Challis, Geoffrey Blundell and Conraad De Rosner -- Fluvial erosion of inscriptions and petroglyphs at Siega Verde, Spain -- Robert G. Bednarik -- The Location of Prehistoric Rock Art in North-East England: -- An Experimental Approach to Field Survey -- Richard Bradley, Tess Durden and Nigel Spencer -- Beyond Art and Between the Caves -- Thinking About Context in the Interpretive Process -- Margaret W. Conkey -- Transculturation, Rock Art and Cross-Cultural Contact -- Thomas Heyd -- The Cultural Context of Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art -- Robert Layton -- Who Thought Rock Art Was About Archaeology? -- The Role of Prehistory in Algeria's Terror -- Jeremy Keenan -- The power of a place in understanding southern San rock engravings -- Janette Deacon -- Acoustic elements of (pre)historic rock art landscapes at the Fourth Nile Cataract -- Cornelia Kleinitz -- Unsettled times: shaded polychromes and the making of hunter-gatherer history -- in the southeastern mountains of southern Africa -- Aron D. Mazel -- Engraved in Place And Time: -- A Review of Variability in the Rock Art of the Northern Cape and Karoo -- David Morris -- Rock art and the material culture of Siberian and Central Asian shamanism -- Ekaterina Devlet -- Chronological Trends in Negev Rock Art: The Har Michia Petroglyphs as a Test Case -- Davida Eisenberg-Degen and Steven A. Rosen -- Making sense of obscure pictures from our own history: -- exotic images from Callan Park, Australia -- John Clegg.

Religious Spatial Behaviour: Why Space is Important to Religion -- Matthew Kelleher -- Bedrock notions and isochrestic choice: evidence for localised stylistic patterning -- in the engravings of the Sydney region -- Jo McDonald -- Rainbow Colour and Power among the Waanyi of Northwest Queensland -- Paul S. C. Taçon -- Caves as Landscapes -- Jean Clottes -- Landscape representations on boulders and menhirs -- in the Valcamonica-Valtellina area -- (Alps, Italy) -- Angelo Fossati -- Roaring Rocks: -- An Audio-Visual Perspective on Hunter-Gatherer Engravings in Northern Sweden and Scandinavia -- Joakim Goldhahn -- Rock Art and Archaeological Excavationin Campo Lameiro, Galicia -- A new chronological proposal for the Atlantic rock art -- Manuel Santos Estévez and Yolanda Seoane Veiga -- The Shore Connection -- Cognitive landscape and communication with rock carvings in northernmost Europe -- Knut Helskog -- Rock art as visual representation - -- or how to travel to Sweden without Christopher Tilley -- Liliana Janik -- A discovery of possible Upper Palaeolithic Parietal art -- in Cathole Cave, Gower Peninsula, South Wales -- George Nash, Peter van Calsteren, Louise Thomas and Michael J. Simms -- Images as Messages in Society -- Prolegomena to the Study of Scandinavian Petroglyphs and Semiotics -- Jarl Nordbladh -- Approaches to Passage Tomb Art -- Muiris O'Sullivan -- Ritual Landscapes -- Toward a Reinterpretation of Stone Age Rock Art in Trøndelag, Norway -- Kalle Sognnes -- Excavation of a rock art site at Hunterheugh Crag, Northumberland -- Clive Waddington -- From natural settings to spiritual places in the Algonkian sacred landscape: -- an archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic analysis of Canadian Shield rock-art sites -- Daniel Arsenault -- In Small Cupules Forgotten: -- Rock Markings, Archaeology, and Ethnography in The Deep South.

Johannes H. N. Loubser -- Shamanism, Natural Modeling and the Rock Art -- of Far Western North American Hunter-Gatherers -- David S. Whitley -- Tsagiglalal, She Who Watches: -- Rock Art as an Interpretable Phenomenon -- James D. Keyser -- Rocks in the landscape: managing the Inka agricultural cycle -- Frank Meddens -- On-Site and post-site analysis of pictographs -- within the San Pedro Viejo de Pichasca rock shelter, Limarí Valley, North-Central Chile -- Francisca Moya, Felipe Armstrong, Mara Basile, George Nash, Andrés Troncoso and Francisco Vergara -- _GoBack -- Contents -- Introduction -- George Nash and Aron Mazel -- Seeing and Construing -- The Making and 'Meaning' of a Southern African Rock Art Motif -- J.D. Lewis-Williams -- An Introduction to the Problems of Southern African Rock Art Regions: -- The Rock Art of Bongani Mountain Lodge and its Environs -- Jamie Hampson, William Challis, Geoffrey Blundell and Conraad De Rosner -- Fluvial erosion of inscriptions and petroglyphs at Siega Verde, Spain -- Robert G. Bednarik -- The Location of Prehistoric Rock Art in North-East England: -- An Experimental Approach to Field Survey -- Richard Bradley, Tess Durden and Nigel Spencer -- Beyond Art and Between the Caves -- Thinking About Context in the Interpretive Process -- Margaret W. Conkey -- Transculturation, Rock Art and Cross-Cultural Contact -- Thomas Heyd -- The Cultural Context of Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art -- Robert Layton -- Who Thought Rock Art Was About Archaeology? -- The Role of Prehistory in Algeria's Terror -- Jeremy Keenan -- The power of a place in understanding southern San rock engravings -- Janette Deacon -- Acoustic elements of (pre)historic rock art landscapes at the Fourth Nile Cataract -- Cornelia Kleinitz -- Unsettled times: shaded polychromes and the making of hunter-gatherer history.

in the southeastern mountains of southern Africa -- Aron D. Mazel -- Engraved in Place And Time: -- A Review of Variability in the Rock Art of the Northern Cape and Karoo -- David Morris -- Rock art and the material culture of Siberian and Central Asian shamanism -- Ekaterina Devlet -- Chronological Trends in Negev Rock Art: The Har Michia Petroglyphs as a Test Case -- Davida Eisenberg-Degen and Steven A. Rosen -- Making sense of obscure pictures from our own history: -- exotic images from Callan Park, Australia -- John Clegg -- Religious Spatial Behaviour: Why Space is Important to Religion -- Matthew Kelleher -- Matthew Kelleher -- Bedrock notions and isochrestic choice: evidence for localised stylistic patterning -- in the engravings of the Sydney region -- Jo McDonald -- Rainbow Colour and Power among the Waanyi of Northwest Queensland -- Paul S. C. Taçon -- Caves as Landscapes -- Jean Clottes -- Landscape representations on boulders and menhirs -- in the Valcamonica-Valtellina area -- (Alps, Italy) -- Angelo Fossati -- Roaring Rocks: -- An Audio-Visual Perspective on Hunter-Gatherer Engravings in Northern Sweden and Scandinavia -- Joakim Goldhahn -- Joakim Goldhahn -- Roaring Rocks -- Rock Art and Archaeological Excavation in Campo Lameiro, Galicia -- A new chronological proposal for the Atlantic rock art -- Manuel Santos Estévez and Yolanda Seoane Veiga -- The Shore Connection -- Cognitive landscape and communication with rock carvings in northernmost Europe -- Knut Helskog -- Rock art as visual representation - -- or how to travel to Sweden without Christopher Tilley -- Liliana Janik -- A discovery of possible Upper Palaeolithic Parietal art -- in Cathole Cave, Gower Peninsula, South Wales -- George Nash, Peter van Calsteren, Louise Thomas and Michael J. Simms -- Images as Messages in Society.

Prolegomena to the Study of Scandinavian Petroglyphs and Semiotics -- Jarl Nordbladh -- Approaches to Passage Tomb Art -- Muiris O'Sullivan -- Ritual Landscapes -- Toward a Reinterpretation of Stone Age Rock Art in Trøndelag, Norway -- Kalle Sognnes -- Excavation of a rock art site at Hunterheugh Crag, Northumberland -- Clive Waddington with Benjamin Johnson and Aron Mazel -- From natural settings to spiritual places in the Algonkian sacred landscape: -- an archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic analysis of Canadian Shield rock-art sites -- Daniel Arsenault -- In Small Cupules Forgotten: -- Rock Markings, Archaeology, and Ethnography in The Deep South -- Johannes H. N. Loubser -- Shamanism, Natural Modeling and the Rock Art -- of Far Western North American Hunter-Gatherers -- David S. Whitley -- Tsagiglalal, She Who Watches: -- Rock Art as an Interpretable Phenomenon -- James D. Keyser -- Rocks in the landscape: managing the Inka agricultural cycle -- Frank Meddens -- On-Site and post-site analysis of pictographs -- within the San Pedro Viejo de Pichasca rock shelter, Limarí Valley, North-Central Chile -- Francisca Moya, Felipe Armstrong, Mara Basile, George Nash, Andrés Troncoso and Francisco Vergara.