Dreamtime Superhighway: Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781921536168)

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. Based on a PhD dissertation, this monograph is a significantly revised and updated study which draws forcefully on rich and new data from extensive recent research-much of it by McDonald herself. McDonald has developed a model that suggests that visual culture-such as rock artmaking and its images and forms-could be understood as a system of communication, as a way of signaling group identifying behaviour. For the archaeologist of art, the anthropologist of art and those of us who try to think about past worlds... this monograph is a must read.

Author: Jo McDonald
ISBN-10: 1921536160
ISBN-13: 9781921536168
Publisher: Anu Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 410
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.90lbs
Size: 11.69h x 8.27w x 1.11d