Indigenous heritage and rock art : : worldwide research in memory of Daniel Arsenault / / edited by Carole Charette, Aron Mazel and George Nash.

• Superior document: Archaeopress Archaeology
• TeilnehmendeR: Charette, Carole,; Mazel, Aron D.,; Nash, George,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Archaeopress archaeology.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 197 pages) :; illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;; 29 cm.

Prof. Daniel Arsenault, a leading exponent of Canadian Shield rock art, sadly passed away in 2016. This book contains 14 thought-provoking chapters dealing with Daniel's first love--the archaeology of artistic endeavour. It provides the reader with new ideas about the interpretation and dating...

Table of Contents

• Préface / Preface ; Nécrologie / Necrology
• Daniel Arsenault ( 1957-2016 ) ; Daniel Arsenault : The scholarly legacy gone but not forgotten ; Dancing in the dark with firelight: the power of shaded paintings in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg and surrounding areas, southeastern Africa
• Aron Mazel ; Contextualising megalithic rock art on Neolithic chambered tombs: A Welsh perspective
• George Nash ; Understanding landscape composition without rock art: A study of panel/canvas behaviour in the Valcamonica, Lombardy, Northern Italy
• George Nash ; Prehistory of central Portugal: brief panoramic of rock art and archaeometry studies
• Sara Garcês, Hugo Gomes, Luiz Oosterbeek, Pierluigi Rosina ; Pleistocene Art at the Beginnings of the Twentieth-First Century: Rethinking the place of Europe in a Globalised Context
• Oscar Moro Abadía and Bryn Tapper ; A multifaceted approach for contextualising the rock art of the Algonquian First Nations in the Canadian Shield
• Daniel Arsenault ; E=mc0, an equation for studying the timeframes of world rock art
• Daniel Arsenault ; Des images dans la pierre. Une exposition virtuelle en héritage
• M. Jean Tanguay ; Geochemical characterization and direct dating of rock art using radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence: the study case of southern Africa and the Canadian Shield
• Adelphine Bonneau and Michel Lamothe ; Rock art and spiritual beliefs among non-literate societies: Astronomical representations, indigenous beliefs and superstition
• Fernando Augusto Coimbra ; Canadian rock paintings: shamanic or sacred?
• Serge Lemaitre ; Northeast Indigenous Iconography from the Canadian subarctic area
• Carole Charette ; Pacific worlds: Evolution of a methodology for documenting place-based cultural heritage
• RDK Herman ; On The Limitations Of The Notion of Prehistoric 'Art': The Case of The Cucuteni-Trypillia Culture of Eastern Europe From Neo-Chalcolithic
• Florence Bouvry.