Dreamtime superhighway : an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange /

Dreamtime superhighway : an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	McDonald, Josephine.
Imprint:	Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xxviii, 380 pages : illustrations (some color), maps).
Language:	English
Series:	Terra Australis ; 27 Terra Australis ; 27.
Subject:	Rock paintings -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) Petroglyphs -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) Visual communication in art -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) -- Antiquities. Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities. Antiquities. Art, Aboriginal Australian. Petroglyphs. Rock paintings. Visual communication in art. Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) -- Antiquities. New South Wales -- Sydney Basin.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11396620

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ISBN:	9781921536175 1921536179 9781921536168
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English.
Summary:	"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.
Other form:	Print version: 9781921536168
Standard no.:	10.26530/OAPEN_459083

Table of Contents:

-- Introduction
The Sydney Basin
Environmental Context
Social context
Archaeological context
The rock art of the Sydney Basin
Excavations at Yengo 1 and Yengo 2
Excavation at the Great Mackerel Rockshelter
Excavations at Upside-Down-Man
The Contemporaneity of Art and Deposit
Diachronic variation in the art of the Sydney Basin
Synchronic variation: Sydney Basin engraved art
Regional synchronic variation: shelter art
Dreamtime superhighway: modelling a regional style.