Research Catalog

Title

Rock art and prehistory : papers presented to symposium G of the AURA Congress, Darwin 1988 / edited by Paul Bahn and Andrée Rosenfeld.

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow Books, 1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

• AURA Congress (1st : 1988 : Darwin, N.T.)
• Bahn, Paul G.
• Rosenfeld, Andrée

Description

vii, 147 p. : ill.; 30 cm.

Summary

Articles by Andre Rosenfeld, Natalie Franklin, Steve Brown , Josephine McDonald, Margaret Bullen, Robert Layton.

Series Statement

Oxbow monograph ; 10

Uniform Title

Oxbow monograph 10.

Subject

• Petroglyphs > Congresses
• Rock paintings > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Where's the Beef? The myth of hunting magic in Paleolithic art / Paul G. Bahn -- Max Raphael's contributions to the study of prehistoric symbol systems / Shirley Chesney -- Figure, Motif and Symbol in the hunter-gatherer rock art of Europe and Australia / Robert Layton -- Handstencils / Anthony Forge -- Female artists / Claire E. Smith -- An interpretation of images of women in the rock art of Northern Australia / Margaret Bullen -- Pictogram dating in Santana do Riacho rockshelter near Lagoa Santa (Brazil) / André Prous -- Rock art in Indonesia / Engkos A. Kosasih -- Archaeology and art in the Sydney region / Josephine McDonald -- Distributional aspects of prehistoric Irish petroglyphs / Susan Johnston -- Art and Tasmanian Prehistory / Steve Brown -- Pictures and pictures of... / John Clegg -- What's in an anthropomorph? / Kelvin L.C. Officer -- Explorations of the Panaramitee style / Natalie Franklin -- Panaramitee: dead or alive? / Andrée Rosenfeld.

ISBN

0946897328

OCLC

25056297

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library