The rock paintings of Arnhem Land, Australia : social, ecological, and material culture change in the Post-Glacial Period / Darrell Lewis
- Bib ID:
- 531753
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lewis, D. (Darrell)
- Description:
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- Oxford : B.A.R., 1988
- xii, 425 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0860545326 (paperback)
- Series:
- BAR international series ; 415.
- Summary:
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Analysis and chronology of Arnhem Land rock paintings; boomerang period; hooked stick period; spear thrower period; motifs - Rainbow snake, yams, flying fox; Arnhem Land prehistory; Mimi figures; Eric Brandl; George Chaloupka.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 415-425.
- Subject:
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- Rock paintings -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Antiquities
- Art - Rock art - Dating and attribution
- Art - Production - Materials / techniques
- Animals - Mammals - Bats / Flying foxes
- Weapons - Spearthrowers
- Stories and motifs - Plants
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Weapons - Boomerangs
- Art - Subjects - Dynamic figures / Mimi
- Plants - Yams
- Stories and motifs - Rainbow serpent
- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Antiquities
- Australia -- Antiquities
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1988
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