Companion to Rock Art

The Editors Jo McDonald’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. Peter Veth’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 Islands in the Interior, 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.

“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).”  (Archaeology In Oceania, 2 October 2013)“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.”  (Choice, 1 June 2013)

• List of Plates ix List of Figures xiList of Tables xviNotes on Contributors xviiiForeword: Redefining the Mainstream with Rock Art xxixMargaret W. Conkey1 Research Issues and New Directions: One Decade into the New Millennium 1Jo McDonald and Peter VethPart I Explanatory Frameworks: New Insights 152 Rock Art and Shamanism 17J. David Lewis-Williams3 Pictographs, Patterns, and Peyote in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas 34Carolyn E. Boyd4 Variation in Early Paintings and Engravings 51Iain DavidsonPart II Inscribed Landscapes 695 Rock Art and Seascapes 71Ian J. McNiven and Liam M. Brady6 The Social Dynamics of Aggregation and Dispersal in the Western Desert 90Jo McDonald and Peter Veth7 Rock Art and Transformed Landscapes in Puerto Rico 103Michele H. Hayward and Michael A. CinquinoPart III Rock Art at the Regional Level 1258 Megalithic Rock Art of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Seaboard Europe 127George Nash9 North American–Siberian Connections: Regional Rock Art Patterning Using Multivariate Statistics 143Alice Tratebas10 Southern Melanesian Rock Art: The New Caledonian Case 160Christophe Sand11 Rock Art Research in India: Historical Approaches and Recent Theoretical Directions 179James Blinkhorn, Nicole Boivin, Paul S. C. Taçon, and Michael D. PetragliaPart IV Engendered Approaches 19712 Engendering Rock Art 199Kelley Hays-Gilpin13 Pictures of Women: The Social Context of Australian Rock Art Production 214Jo McDonald14 Engendering North European Rock Art: Bodies and Cosmologies in Stone and Bronze Age Imagery 237Joakim Goldhahn and Ingrid FuglestvedtPart V Form, Style, and Aesthetics in Rock Art 26115 Understanding Pleistocene Rock Art: An Hermeneutics of Meaning 263Oscar Moro Abadía and Manuel R. González Morales16 Rock “Art” and Art: Why Aesthetics Should Matter 276Thomas Heyd17 Recursive and Iterative Processes in Australian Rock Art: An Anthropological Perspective 294Howard Morphy18 A Theoretical Approach to Style in Levantine Rock Art 306Inés Domingo SanzPart VI Contextualizing Rock Art 32319 Rock Art in Situ: Context and Content as Keys to Meaning 325Linea Sundstrom20 Symbolic Discontinuities: Rock Art and Social Changes across Time and Space 341Maria Isabel Hernández Llosas21 Parietal Art and Archaeological Context: Activities of the Magdalenians in the Cave of Tuc d’Audoubert, France 364Robert Bégouën, Carole Fritz, and Gilles Tosello22 Rock Art, Inherited Landscapes, and Human Populations in Southern Patagonia 381Judith Charlin and Luis A. BorreroPart VII The Mediating Role of Rock Art 39923 When Worlds Collide Quietly: Rock Art and the Mediation of Distance 401Ursula K. Frederick24 Picturing Change and Changing Pictures: Contact Period Rock Art of Australia 420Paul S.C. Taçon, June Ross, Alistair Paterson, and Sally MayPart VIII Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity 43725 Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity 439Robert Layton26 Shamanism in Indigenous Context: Understanding Siberian Rock Art 455Andrzej Rozwadowski27 Rock Art, Aboriginal Culture, and Identity: The Wanjina Paintings of Northwest Australia 472Valda Blundell and Donny WoolagoodjaPart IX Rock Art Management and Interpretation 48928 Rock Art and the UNESCO World Heritage List 491Nuria Sanz29 Safeguarding a Fragile Legacy: Managing uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Rock Art 515Aron Mazel30 Managing Rock Art Sites 532Valerie Magar31 From Discovery to Commoditization: Rock Art Management in Remote Australia 546Peter VethPart X Dating Rock Art: Technological Advances and Applications 56332 Radiocarbon Dating of Rock Paintings: Incorporating Pictographs into the Archaeological Record 565Karen L. Steelman and Marvin W. Rowe33 Twelve Years of Research in Chauvet Cave: Methodology and Main Results 583Jean Clottes and Jean-Michel Geneste34 In Suspect Terrain: Dating Rock Engravings 605David S. WhitleyPart XI Rock Art in the Digital Age 62535 Digital Enhancement of Deteriorated and Superimposed Pigment Art: Methods and Case Studies 627Liam M. Brady and Robert G. Gunn36 Robust and Scientifically Reliable Rock Art Documentation from Digital Photographs 644Mark Mudge, Carla Schroer, Tommy Noble, Neffra Matthews, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and Corey Toler-Franklin37 Engaging a New Digital Citizenry 660Michael Ashley and Cinzia PerlingieriIndex 670