TY  - BOOK
AU  - McDonald, Jo
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_459083
ID  - OAPEN ID: 459083
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1166472897
KW  - rock art
KW  - australia
KW  - aboriginal australians
KW  - archeology
KW  - new south wales
KW  - sydney basin
KW  - Before Present
KW  - Darug
KW  - Dreamtime
KW  - Kuringgai
KW  - Pigment
KW  - Terra Australis
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e3dba07d-fe2d-4db7-a1a5-f7186f706ac6/459083.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33766
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2008
SN  - 9781921536175
TI  - Dreamtime Superhighway (TA27) : Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange
ER  - 
