Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews. Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases examples of such research from around the world and across a broad range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional researcher alike.
List of ContributorsOnline Supplementary MaterialIntroduction1. Towards
an Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art - Bruno David and Ian J.
McNivenPart I: Geographical and Historical Perspectives2. Interpretative
Frameworks and the Study of the Rock Arts - Margaret W. Conkey3. North
European Rock Art: A Long-term Perspective - Joakim Goldhahn4. The Rock Art
of Sub-Scandinavian Europe - Olivia Rivero and Juan F. Ruiz5. The Archaeology
of Rock Art in Northern Africa -Savino di Lernia6. The Rock Art of
Sub-Saharan Africa - Jean-Loļc Le Quellec7. Rock Art of Northern, Central,
and Western Asia - Andrzej Rozwadowski8. The Rock Art of South and East Asia
- Paul S.C. Taēon9. Australia's Rock Art Heritage: A Thematic Approach to
Assessing Scientific Value - Jo McDonald10. Rock Art of the Pacific: Context
and Intertextuality - Meredith Wilson and Chris Ballard11. Rock Art of North
America - David S. Whitley12. Rock Art in Central and South America: Social
Settings and Regional Diversity - Andrés Troncoso, Felipe Armstrong, and Mara
BasilePart II: Conceptual Approaches to Rock Art: Investigating Meaning13.
Tracing Symbolic Behaviour across the Southern Arc - Natalie R. Franklin and
Phillip J. Habgood14. Signalling Theory and Durable Symbolic Expression -
Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird15. The Psychology of Graphic
Perception - Jan B. Deregowski16. European Palaeolithic Rock Art and Spatial
Structures - Jean Clottes17. Art and Environment: How Can Rock Art Inform on
Past Environments? - George Nash18. Images of Animals in Rock Art: Not Just
'Good to Think' - Iain Davidson19. Plants Before Animals? Aboriginal Rock Art
as Evidence of Ecoscaping in Australia's Kimberley - Sven Ouzman, Peter Veth,
Cecilia Myers, Pauline Heaney, and Kevin Kenneally20. 'Enigmatic Images from
Remote Prehistory': Rock Art and Ontology from a European Perspective -
Andrew Meirion Jones and Marta Dķaz-Guardamino21. Rock Art, Music, and
Acoustics: A Global Overview - Margarita Dķaz-Andreu and Tommaso Mattioli22.
The Production of Ethnographic Records and Their Use in Rock Art Research -
Julien Monney and Leļla Baracchini23. Rock Art and Ethnography in Australia -
Liam M. Brady, Robert G. Gunn, Claire Smith, and Bruno David24. Rock Arts,
Shamans, and Grand Theories - Anne Solomon25. A New Framework for
Interpreting Contact Rock Art: Reassessing the Rock Art at Nackara Springs,
South Australia - Claire Smith, Jordan Ralph, Kylie Lower, Jennifer McKinnon,
Matthew Ebbs, and Vincent Copley Senior26. Creolization in the Investigation
of Rock Art of the Colonial Era - Sam Challis27. Out of Time and Place:
Graffiti and Rock Art Research - Ursula K. Frederick28. Memory, Materiality,
and Place in Ojibway Rock Art Performances - Alex K. Ruuska29. Rock Art as
Cultural Expressions of Social Relationships and Kinship - Liam M. Brady,
John J. Bradley, and Amanda Kearney30. Bodies Revealed: X-ray Art in Western
Arnhem Land - Luke Taylor31. Rock Art and Aesthetics - Thomas HeydPart III:
Methods: Marks in Time and Place32. The Science of Rock Art Research - Guy
Gibbon33. Recording Rock Art: Strategies, Challenges, and Embracing the
Digital Revolution - Liam M. Brady, Jamie Hampson, and Inés Domingo Sanz34.
GIS in Rock Art Studies - Michelle L. Wienhold and David W. Robinson35. 3-D
Modelling in Rock Art Research: Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Photogrammetry,
and the Time Factor - Stéphane Jaillet, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Julien Monney,
and Benjamin Sadier36. Archaeomorphological Mapping: Rock Art and the
Architecture of Place- Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Bruno David, Robert G. Gunn,
Jean-Michel Geneste, and Stéphane Jaillet37. Taphonomy on the Surface of the
Rock Wall: Rock-Paint-Atmosphere Interactions - Emilie Chalmin, Stéphane
Hrlé, and Ina Reiche38. Characterizing Rock Art Pigments - Emilie Chalmin
and Jillian Huntley39. The Use of Harris Matrices in Rock Art Research -
Edward Harris and Robert G. Gunn40. Radiocardon Dating in Rock Art Research -
Fiona Petchey41. Optical Dating of Rock Art - Richard G. Roberts42.
Uranium-Thorium Dating of Cave Art - Alistair W.G. PikePart IV: The Public
Consumption of Art: Applying and Managing Art in the Present43. Cultural and
Intellectual Property Rights in Rock Art: A Case Study of Australian
Indigenous Art - Stephen Gray44. The Conservation and Management of Rock Art:
An Integrated Approach - Johannes Loubser45. Rock Art Tourism - Melanie
Duval, Christophe Gauchon, and Benjamin Smith46. Past Images, Contemporary
Practices: Re-use of Rock Art Images in Contemporary San Art of Southern
Africa - Leļla Baracchini and Julien Monney47. The Use and Re-use of Rock Art
Designs in Contemporary Jewellery and Wearable Art - Lynette Russell and
Myles Russell-Cook48. Visiting Gonjorong's Cave - Valda Blundell and
Woddordda Traditional Owners Donny Woolagoodja, Janet Oobagooma, and Leah
UmbagaiIndex
Bruno David is Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre and the Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, and Associate Professor in the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He specializes in the archaeology of Indigenous Australia and Papua New Guinea, rock art, and oral traditions.
Ian J. McNiven is Professor of Indigenous Archaeology in the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He specializes in coastal societies and seascapes and ritual and spiritual relationships with the sea. He is a member of the Australian Academy of Humanities.
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