Dreamtime superhighway : Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange / Jo McDonald
- Bib ID:
- 4455162
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McDonald, Josephine
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- Description:
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- Canberra : ANU E Press, c2008
- xxviii, 380 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781921536168
- Series:
- Terra Australis ; 27.
- Summary:
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"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 demontrates 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 art making and its images and forms - could be understood as a system of communication, as a way of signaling group identifying behaviour." -- cover. Annotation pending.
- Notes:
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- Bibliography: p. 352-380.
- Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://epress.anu.edu.au
- Subject:
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- Rock paintings -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Petroglyphs -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Visual communication in art -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin -- Antiquities
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Sites - Ceremonial grounds
- Weapons - Shields
- Technology - Stone
- Indigenous knowledge - World view
- Dharawal / Tharawal / Dariwal people (S59) (NSW SI56-09)
- Art - Body art
- Sites - Excavations
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial grounds
- Religion - Dreaming
- Religion - Dreaming - Rainbow Serpent
- Religion - Dreaming - Baiame
- Darkinung / Darkinjung / Darkinoong people (S65) (NSW SI56-05)
- Sites - Assemblages, sequences and analysis
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Art - Art motifs
- Mythology - Theory and analysis
- Archaeology - Theory and criticism
- Stories and motifs - Cultural heroes
- Religion - Dreaming - Dharumalan
- Art - Subjects - Ancestral / totemic beings
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Dharug / Daruk / Darug people (S64) (NSW SI56-05)
- Art - Rock art - Dating and attribution
- Material culture
- Religion - Dreaming - Cultural heroes
- Art - Rock art
- Sydney map area (NSW SI56-05)
- Ku-Ring-Gai Chase (N Sydney area NSW SI56-05)
- Mangrove Creek (N Sydney area NSW SI56-05)
- Wollombi / Yengo (NSW N Coast SI56-01, SI56-05)
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
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