A field guide to Aboriginal rock engravings : with special reference to those around Sydney / Peter Stanbury & John Clegg with poems by David Campbell
- Bib ID:
- 287709
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Stanbury, Peter, 1934-
- Description:
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- Sydney : Sydney University Press, 1990
- xii, 163 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0424001470 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Guide to rock engraving of the Sydney region; introduction to the why, when, and where of the art form; description of 23 selected site complexes; discussion of conservation and site management, engraving methods, style and drawing technique, interpretation, religious and ritual significance; Appendix A; catalogue of rock engraving SydneyHawkesbury region; Appendix B; list of selected engraving sites in the Blue Mountains; Appendix C; selected rock engraving sites throughout Australia; Appendix D; list of State Authorities.
- Notes:
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- Inlcudes index.
- Bibliography: p. 157-160.
- Subject:
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- Petroglyphs -- New South Wales -- Sydney Region -- Guidebooks
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- New South Wales -- Sydney Region -- Guidebooks
- Art - Drawing
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Art - Rock art - Conservation
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Antiquities -- Guidebooks
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Guidebooks
- Hunting and Lyrebird Sites, Terrey Hills (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Fishman, Beacon Hill (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Echidna and Fish, West Head (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Elvina Track, West Head (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Wheeler Heights (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Point Piper (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
- Berowra Waters (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Canoelands (N Sydney area NSW SI56-05)
- Blue Mountains (W Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Basin Track, West Head (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Old North Road, Maroota (N Sydney area NSW SI56-05)
- Balls Head (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Mount Ku-Ring-Gai (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Bulgandry (SW NSW SI55-14)
- America Track, West Head (N Sydney NSW S156-05)
- Gumbooya, Allambie Heights (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Woy Woy (N Sydney area NSW SI56-05)
- Middle Harbour / Bantry Bay (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Devils Rock, Maroota (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Whale Feast, Cowan (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Topham Track, West Head (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Garigal, West Head (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1990
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