Dreamtime superhighway an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange
"Dreamtime superhighway 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 demonstrates that a true archaeology of rock art can provide insights into rock art image-making in people...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Canberra :
ANU E Press
2008.
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Colección: | JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Terra Australis ; 27. |
Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34948016*spi |
Sumario: | "Dreamtime superhighway 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 demonstrates that a true archaeology of rock art can provide insights into rock art image-making in people's social and cultural lives. 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."--Provided by publisher. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (xxviii, 380 p.) : il., mapas |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas. |
ISBN: | 9781921536175 9781921536168 |