Beschreibung:
This volume contains cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art and considers each of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion, and makes a significant contribution to the discipline.
Cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art.
This volume contains contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion, and it therefore makes a significant contribution to the discipline. The volume aims to promote the sharing of new experiences between leading researchers in the field. While the geographic focus is truly global, there is a dominant north-south axis with strong representation from researchers in southern Africa and northern Europe, two leading centres for new approaches in rock art research. Working with Rock Art opens up a long overdue dialogue about shared experiences between these two centres, and a number of the chapters are the first published results of new collaborative research. Since this volume covers the recording, interpretation and presentation of rock art, it will attract a wide audience of researchers, heritage managers and students, as well as anyone interested in the field of rock art studies.
Chapter 1. Rock art management: Juggling with paradoxes and compromises, and how to live with themAnne-Sophie Hygen and Alexey E. RogozhinskiyChapter 2. Expressing intangibles: A recording experience with /Xam rock engravingsJanette DeaconChapter 3. Aspects of documentation for conservation purposes exemplified by rock artTerje NorstedChapter 4. The position of rock art: A consideration of how GIS can contribute to the understanding of the age and authorship of rock artThembi RussellChapter 5. R ock art in context: Theoretical aspects of pragmatic data collectionsTilman Lenssen-ErzChapter 6. Representing southern African San rock art: A move towards digitisationDipuo W. MokokweChapter 7. The routine of documentationKnut HelskogChapter 8. Prehistoric explorations in rock: Investigations beneath and beyond engraved surfacesTrond LødøenChapter 9. Politics, ethnography and prehistory: In search of an ‘informed’ approach to Finnish and Karelian rock artAntti LahelmaChapter 10. Ethnography and history: The significance of social change in interpreting rock artDavid G. PearceChapter 11. Symbols on stone: Following in the footsteps of the bear in Finnish antiquityJuha PentikäinenChapter 12. Animals and humans: Metaphors of representation in south-central African rock artLeslie F. Z ubietaChapter 13. Ways of knowing and ways of seeing: Spiritual agents and the origins of Native American rock artDavid S. WhitleyChapter 14. R ock art, shamanism and history: Implications from a central Asian case studyAndrzej RozwadowskiChapter 15. Presenting rock art through digital film: Recent Australian examplesPaul S. C. TaçonChapter 16. Rock art at present in the pastLindsay WeissChapter 17. The importance of Wildebeest Kuil: ‘A hill with a future, a hill with a past’David MorrisChapter 18. Theoretical approaches and practical training for rock art site guiding and managementJanette Deacon and Neville AgnewChapter 19. Two related rock art conservation/education projects in LesothoPieter JollyChapter 20. Norwegian rock art in the past, the present, and the futureGitte KjeldsenChapter 21. The presentation of rock art in South Africa: Old problems, new challengesNdukuyakhe NdlovuChapter 22. Yellowstone, Kruger, Kakadu: Nature, culture and heritage in three celebrated national parksCatherine Namono and Christopher Chippindale
