[BOOK][B] What is Paleolithic art? Cave paintings and the dawn of human creativity

J Clottes - 2020 - degruyter.com
Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal
and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in …

Negotiating Yanyuwa rock art: relational and affectual experiences in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia

LM Brady, JJ Bradley, AJ Kearney - Current Anthropology, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Archaeologists have routinely used insights derived from the study of rock art to learn more
about the lifeways of humans from the deep and recent past. Yet questions concerning the …

What Bird Is That? Identifying a Probable Painting of Genyornis newtoni in Western Arnhem Land

RG Gunn, LC Douglas, RL Whear - Australian Archaeology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
A large painting of an unusual emu-like bird was recorded in western Arnhem Land. The
painting and its setting are described in relation to reported megafauna depictions in the …

Carving interactions: rock art in the nomadic landscape of the Black Desert, north-eastern Jordan

NØ Brusgaard - 2019 - torrossa.com
Carving Interactions: Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert, North-Eastern
Jordan Page 1 Rock art in the nomadic landscape of the Black Desert, north-eastern Jordan …

Early Australian Anthropomorphs: Jabiluka's Dynamic Figure Rock Paintings

SK May, IG Johnston, PSC Taçon, ID Sanz… - Cambridge …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Early depictions of anthropomorphs in rock art provide unique insights into life during the
deep past. This includes human engagements with the environment, socio-cultural …

Marra philosophies of stone, and the stone artefacts of Walanjiwurru 1 rockshelter, Marra Country, northern Australia

J Ash, JJ Bradley, J Mialanes, LM Brady… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In archaeology, investigations into the social and cultural contexts of stone artefacts have
largely focused on their typological styles, manufacturing technologies, functions …

Navigating contact: tradition and innovation in Australian contact rock art

C Frieman, SK May - International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, we look at the ways in which rock art encapsulates and expresses the tension
between tradition and innovation in northern Australia during the period of European …

Hidden sites, hidden images, hidden meanings: does the location and visibility of motifsand sites correlate to restricted or open access?

I Domingo, C Smith, G Jackson, D Roman - Journal of Archaeological …, 2020 - Springer
Using an ethnographic approach, this research assesses common assumptions in rock art
research in terms of their validity for Aboriginal rock art sites in the Barunga region of the …

" Our dad's painting is hiding, in secret place": Reverberations of a rock painting episode in Kakadu National Park, Australia

J Goldhahn, L Biyalwanga, SK May… - Rock Art Research …, 2021 - search.informit.org
This paper presents and discusses a 1972 rock painting episode at Koongarra in Kakadu
National Park in the Northern Territory, Australia. This painting, which depicts a macropod …

Reflections on the pedagogy of archaeological field schools within Indigenous community archaeology programmes in Australia

SK May, M Marshall, I Domingo Sanz… - public archaeology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper we investigate the pedagogy of archaeological field schools. Specifically, we
explore the combination of tertiary level field schools and Indigenous community (or …