Australian rock art : a new synthesis / Robert Layton
- Bib ID:
- 733223
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Layton, Robert, 1944-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Cambridge [England] ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1992
- xi, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0521346665
- Full contents:
- Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Anthropological and archaeological approaches to Australian rock art; 2. Rock art and indigenous religion; 3. Rock art as an expression of secular and subversive themes; 4. Rock art and the colonial impact; 5. Putting statements in their cultural context; 6. Figure and motif; 7. Stylistic variations in time and space; 8. Rock art and human adaptation in Australia; Appendices; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Maps on end papers.
- Bibliographic references: p. <261>-272.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities
- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Rock paintings -- Australia
- Petroglyphs -- Australia
- Art - Production - Materials / techniques
- Art - Art motifs - Stencil
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Art - Art motifs - Geometric
- Religion - Rites - Increase
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Australia -- Antiquities
- West Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51)
- Gunbalanya / Oenpelli (West Arnhem Land NT SD53-01)
- Rock paintings By Australian aborigines
- Rock carvings By Australian aborigines
- Australia
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1991
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