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Author:   Iain Davidson ,  April Nowell
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781789209204

ISBN 10:   178920920
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   13 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Illustrations Preface Meg Conkey Introduction: Behind the Scenes—Did Scenes in Rock Art Create New Ways of Seeing the World? Iain Davidson and April Nowell Chapter 1. Scenes and non-Scenes in Rock Art Iain Davidson Chapter 2. The Possible Significance of Depicted Scenes for Cognitive Development. Livio Dobrez Chapter 3. Event Depiction in Rock Art: Landscape-Embedded Plan-View Narratives, Decontextualized Profile “scenes,” and their Hybrid Instances Patricia Dobrez Chapter 4. Defining “scenes” in Rock Art Research: Visual Conventions and Beyond Madeleine Kelly and Bruno David Chapter 5. Putting Southern African Rock Paintings in Context: The View from the Mirabib Rockshelter, Western Namibia Grant S. McCall, Theodore P. Marks, Jordan Wilson, Andrew G. Schroll, and James G. Enloe Chapter 6. Scenic Narratives of Humans and Animals in Namibian rock art – A Methodological Restart with Data Mining Tilman Lenssen-Erz, Eymard Fäder, Oliver Vogels and Brigitte Mathiak Chapter 7. Between scene and association: Toward a Better Understanding of Scenes in the Rock Art of Iran Ebrahim Karimi Chapter 8. Music and Dancing Scenes in the Rock Art of Central India Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak and Jean Clottes Chapter 9. Hunting and havoc: Narrative Scenes in the Black Desert Rock Art of Jebel Qurma, Jordan Nathalie Østerled Brusgaard and Keshia A. N. Akkermans Chapter 10. Making a scene: An analysis of rock art panels from the Northwest Kimberley and Central Desert, Australia. June Ross Chapter 11. Scene but not heard: Seeing scenes in a northern Australian Aboriginal site Madeleine Kelly, Bruno David and Josephine Flood Chapter 12. A Comparison of “scenes” in Parietal and Non-Parietal Upper Paleolithic Imagery: Formal Differences and Ontological Implications Elisabeth Culley Chapter 13. Scene Makers: Finger Fluters in Rouffignac Cave (France) Leslie Van Gelder and April Nowell Chapter 14. Maps in Prehistoric Art Pilar Utrilla, Carlos Mazo, Rafael Domingo and Manuel Bea Chapter 15. Scenes in the Paleolithic and Levantine Art of Eastern Spain Valentín Villaverde Chapter 16. New Insights into the Analysis of Levantine Rock Art Scenes Informed by Observations on Western Arnhem Land Rock Art. Inés Domingo Chapter 17. Rules of Ordering and Grouping in the pitoti, the Later Prehistoric Rock-Engravings of Valcamonica (BS), Italy: from Solitary Figures through Clusters, Graphic Groups, and Scenes to Narrative Craig Alexander, Alberto Marretta, Thomas Huet, Christopher Chippindale Chapter 18. Finding Order out of Chaos: A Statistical Analysis of Nine Mile Canyon Rock Art Jerry D. Spangler and Iain Davidson Chapter 19. Interpreting Scenes in the Rock Art of the Canadian Maritimes Bryn Tapper and Oscar Moro Abadía Chapter 20. The “Black Series” in the Hunting Scenes of Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, Patagonia, Argentina. Carlos A. Aschero and Patricia Schneier Epilogue: Is There More to Scenes than Meets the eye? Iain Davidson and April Nowell

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Any reader interested in the question what makes a scene in rock art? will find a wonderful array of answers in this book, most of them built from sophisticated theoretical frameworks and applied to worldwide case-studies via the use of well-devised and relevant methods. Danae Fiore, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Any reader interested in the question what makes a scene in rock art? will find a wonderful array of answers in this book, most of them built from sophisticated theoretical frameworks and applied to worldwide case-studies via the use of well-devised and relevant methods. * Danae Fiore, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Author Information

Iain Davidson was appointed at the University of New England in 1974 and was awarded a Personal Chair in 1997.  He was appointed Emeritus in 2008 and took up the Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University for 2008–9.  Iain has worked on Spanish Upper Palaeolithic (including Palaeolithic Art), archaeology and ethnography of Northwest Queensland, Australian rock art, archaeology and heritage, colonization of Sahul, language origins, and cognitive evolution.

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