{"product_id":"a-companion-to-rock-art-isbn-9781444334241","title":"A Companion to Rock Art","description":"This unique guide provides an artistic and archaeological journey deep into human history, exploring the petroglyphic and pictographic forms of rock art produced by the earliest humans to contemporary peoples around the world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eSummarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes new discoveries and research, illustrated with over 160 images (including 30 color plates) from major rock art sites around the world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines key work of noted authorities (e.g. Lewis-Williams, Conkey, Whitley and Clottes), and outlines new directions for rock art research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIs broadly international in scope, identifying rock art from North and South America, Australia, the Pacific, Africa, India, Siberia and Europe\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRepresents new approaches in the archaeological study of rock art, exploring issues that include gender, shamanism, landscape, identity, indigeneity, heritage and tourism, as well as technological and methodological advances in rock art analyses\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Plates ix  \u003cp\u003eList of Figures xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword: Redefining the Mainstream with Rock Art xxix\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargaret W. Conkey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Research Issues and New Directions: One Decade into the New Millennium 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJo McDonald and Peter Veth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Explanatory Frameworks: New Insights 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Rock Art and Shamanism 17\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. David Lewis-Williams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Pictographs, Patterns, and Peyote in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas 34\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarolyn E. Boyd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Variation in Early Paintings and Engravings 51\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIain Davidson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Inscribed Landscapes 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Rock Art and Seascapes 71\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIan J. McNiven and Liam M. Brady\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Social Dynamics of Aggregation and Dispersal in the Western Desert 90\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJo McDonald and Peter Veth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Rock Art and Transformed Landscapes in Puerto Rico 103\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichele H. Hayward and Michael A. Cinquino\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart III Rock Art at the Regional Level 125\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Megalithic Rock Art of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Seaboard Europe 127\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge Nash\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 North American–Siberian Connections: Regional Rock Art Patterning Using Multivariate Statistics 143\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlice Tratebas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Southern Melanesian Rock Art: The New Caledonian Case 160\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristophe Sand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Rock Art Research in India: Historical Approaches and Recent Theoretical Directions 179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Blinkhorn, Nicole Boivin, Paul S. C. Taçon, and Michael D. Petraglia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Engendered Approaches 197\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Engendering Rock Art 199\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKelley Hays-Gilpin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Pictures of Women: The Social Context of Australian Rock Art Production 214\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJo McDonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Engendering North European Rock Art: Bodies and Cosmologies in Stone and Bronze Age Imagery 237\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoakim Goldhahn and Ingrid Fuglestvedt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Form, Style, and Aesthetics in Rock Art 261\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Understanding Pleistocene Rock Art: An Hermeneutics of Meaning 263\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOscar Moro Abadía and Manuel R. González Morales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Rock “Art” and Art: Why Aesthetics Should Matter 276\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Heyd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Recursive and Iterative Processes in Australian Rock Art: An Anthropological Perspective 294\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHoward Morphy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 A Theoretical Approach to Style in Levantine Rock Art 306\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eInés Domingo Sanz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Contextualizing Rock Art 323\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Rock Art in Situ: Context and Content as Keys to Meaning 325\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLinea Sundstrom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Symbolic Discontinuities: Rock Art and Social Changes across Time and Space 341\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaria Isabel Hernández Llosas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Parietal Art and Archaeological Context: Activities of the Magdalenians in the Cave of Tuc d’Audoubert, France 364\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Bégouën, Carole Fritz, and Gilles Tosello\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Rock Art, Inherited Landscapes, and Human Populations in Southern Patagonia 381\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJudith Charlin and Luis A. Borrero\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII The Mediating Role of Rock Art 399\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 When Worlds Collide Quietly: Rock Art and the Mediation of Distance 401\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eUrsula K. Frederick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Picturing Change and Changing Pictures: Contact Period Rock Art of Australia 420\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul S.C. Taçon, June Ross, Alistair Paterson, and Sally May\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity 437\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity 439\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Layton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Shamanism in Indigenous Context: Understanding Siberian Rock Art 455\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrzej Rozwadowski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Rock Art, Aboriginal Culture, and Identity: The Wanjina Paintings of Northwest Australia 472\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eValda Blundell and Donny Woolagoodja\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IX Rock Art Management and Interpretation 489\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Rock Art and the UNESCO World Heritage List 491\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNuria Sanz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Safeguarding a Fragile Legacy: Managing uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Rock Art 515\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAron Mazel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Managing Rock Art Sites 532\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eValerie Magar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 From Discovery to Commoditization: Rock Art Management in Remote Australia 546\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Veth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart X Dating Rock Art: Technological Advances and Applications 563\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Radiocarbon Dating of Rock Paintings: Incorporating Pictographs into the Archaeological Record 565\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKaren L. Steelman and Marvin W. Rowe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Twelve Years of Research in Chauvet Cave: Methodology and Main Results 583\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJean Clottes and Jean-Michel Geneste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 In Suspect Terrain: Dating Rock Engravings 605\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid S. Whitley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XI Rock Art in the Digital Age 625\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Digital Enhancement of Deteriorated and Superimposed Pigment Art: Methods and Case Studies 627\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiam M. Brady and Robert G. Gunn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Robust and Scientifically Reliable Rock Art Documentation from Digital Photographs 644\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark Mudge, Carla Schroer, Tommy Noble, Neffra Matthews, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and Corey Toler-Franklin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Engaging a New Digital Citizenry 660\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Ashley and Cinzia Perlingieri\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 670\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“To summarise, as stated by Conkey in the foreword, this volume is a clear example of how in the twenty-first century rock art is considered a topic of archaeological inquiry, leaving behind the times when it was excluded from the archaeological discussions because of its problematic dating and interpretation (see Whitley 2001 for details about the North American case; or Morwood 2002: 64-88 for the Australian case).”  (\u003ci\u003eArchaeology In Oceania\u003c\/i\u003e, 2 October 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Overall, this is a fine compendium, and all rock art researchers will need to read it. Aimed at a sophisticated audience. Summing Up: Highly recommended.  Upper-level undergraduates and above.”  (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e 1 June 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Editors\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJo McDonald\u003c\/b\u003e’s career has combined cultural heritage management and rock art research. She is currently Chair and Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management at the University of Western Australia. Her major research focus, funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, is comparing rock art of the Australian and North American arid zones. She is past-President of the Australian Archaeological Association and of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Veth\u003c\/b\u003e’s career has focused on the archaeology of Australia and Island Southeast Asia; and on global desert peoples and art in archaeological context. Peter is currently Chair in Archaeology at the University of Western Australia, an Adjunct Chair at the Australian National University, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Beginning with \u003ci\u003eIslands in the Interior\u003c\/i\u003e, he has published twelve volumes on the archaeology, art, early contact history, and native title of Australia and Island Southeast Asia. Peter has coauthored Plans of Management, National Heritage Listing reports and Outstanding Universal Values reports for art provinces in Australia.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRock art, both as art and as a record of human endeavor and artistry, evokes a personal response as well as a scientific one. Its geographic range is vast - with innumerable discoveries from the deserts of Australia to the limestone caves of the Pyrenees; from the heights of the Andes to the fjords of Scandinavia. The number and diversity of sites, and how we approach them using archaeological and art historical perspectives, provides a rich landscape of ideas and narrative frameworks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Rock Art\u003c\/i\u003e offers an unparalleled overview of a field that has evolved significantly within the last two decades. A range of interpretive frameworks within which petroglyph and pictograph art forms can be understood is examined in detail. This exciting field of enquiry continues to engage both researchers and the general public, with the search for elusive meanings in the images. Whether they were produced for the exchange of information; for secular or sacred purposes; for signaling alliance networks and identity; or as legacies of origin narratives are just some of the challenging questions that confront the modern archaeologist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeading international scholars provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of theoretical and methodological developments in the field, and illustrations and photographs ably support the text. This \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e is an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors, and students in anthropology, archaeology, religious studies, and prehistoric art.   “A pertinent and stimulating collection of ideas, theory and research results under 11 core themes designed to contextualize rock art within the mainstream of archaeology.”\u003cbr\u003e - \u003ci\u003eDr. Janette Deacon, Research Associate, Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988615053541,"sku":"NP9781444334241","price":239.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444334241.jpg?v=1761780980","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-companion-to-rock-art-isbn-9781444334241","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}