Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: A Reader

Why publish a Reader? Today, it is relatively easy and convenient to switch on your computer and download an academic paper. However, as many scholars have experienced, historic references are difficult to access. Moreover, some are now lost and are merely references in later papers. This can be frustrating. This book provides a series of papers from all over the world that extend as far back as the 1970s when rock art research was in its infancy. The papers presented in the Reader reflect the development in the various approaches that have influenced advancing scholarly research.

Table of Contents

1. Seeing and Construing: The Making and ‘Meaning’ of a Southern African Rock Art Motif – by J.D. Lewis-Williams

2. An Introduction to the Problems of Southern African Rock Art Regions: The Rock Art of Bongani Mountain Lodge and its Environs – by Jamie Hampson, William Challis, Geoffrey Blundell and Conraad De Rosner

3. Fluvial erosion of inscriptions and petroglyphs at Siega Verde, Spain – by Robert G. Bednarik

4. The Location of Prehistoric Rock Art in North-East England: An Experimental Approach to Field Survey – by Richard Bradley, Tess Durden and Nigel Spencer

5. Beyond Art and Between the Caves: Thinking About Context in the Interpretive Process – by Margaret W. Conkey

6. Transculturation, Rock Art and Cross-Cultural Contact – by Thomas Heyd

7. The Cultural Context of Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art – by Robert Layton

8. Who Thought Rock Art Was About Archaeology? The Role of Prehistory in Algeria’s Terror – by Jeremy Keenan

9. The power of a place in understanding southern San rock engravings – by Janette Deacon

10.Acoustic elements of (pre)historic rock art landscapes at the Fourth Nile Cataract – by Cornelia Kleinitz

11. Unsettled times: shaded polychromes and the making of hunter-gatherer history in the southeastern mountains of southern Africa – by Aron D. Mazel

12. Engraved in Place And Time: A Review of Variability in the Rock Art of the Northern Cape and Karoo – by David Morris

13. Rock art and the material culture of Siberian and Central Asian shamanism – by Ekaterina Devlet

14. Chronological Trends in Negev Rock Art: The Har Michia Petroglyphs as a Test Case – by Davida Eisenberg-Degen and Steven A. Rosen

15. Making sense of obscure pictures from our own history: exotic images from Callan Park, Australia – by John Clegg

16. Religious Spatial Behaviour: Why Space is Important to Religion – by Matthew Kelleher

17. Bedrock notions and isochrestic choice: evidence for localised stylistic patterning in the engravings of the Sydney region – by Jo McDonald

18. Rainbow Colour and Power among the Waanyi of Northwest Queensland – by Paul S. C. Taçon

19. Caves as Landscapes – by Jean Clottes

20. Landscape representations on boulders and menhirs in the Valcamonica-Valtellina area (Alps, Italy) – by Angelo Fossati

21. Roaring Rocks: An Audio-Visual Perspective on Hunter-Gatherer Engravings in Northern Sweden and Scandinavia – by Joakim Goldhahn

22. Rock Art and Archaeological Excavationin Campo Lameiro, Galicia: A new chronological proposal for the Atlantic rock art – by Manuel Santos Estévez and Yolanda Seoane Veiga

23. The Shore Connection: Cognitive landscape and communication with rock carvings in northernmost Europe – by Knut Helskog

24. Rock art as visual representation – or how to travel to Sweden without Christopher Tilley – by Liliana Janik

25. A discovery of possible Upper Palaeolithic Parietal art in Cathole Cave, Gower Peninsula, South Wales – by George Nash, Peter van Calsteren, Louise Thomas and Michael J. Simms

26. Images as Messages in Society: Prolegomena to the Study of Scandinavian Petroglyphs and Semiotics – by Jarl Nordbladh

27. Approaches to Passage Tomb Art – by Muiris O’Sullivan

28. Ritual Landscapes: Toward a Reinterpretation of Stone Age Rock Art in Trøndelag, Norway – by Kalle Sognnes

29. Excavation of a rock art site at Hunterheugh Crag, Northumberland – by Clive Waddington with