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Author

McDonald, Josephine.

Title Dreamtime superhighway : an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange / Jo McDonald.

Imprint

Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2008.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (xxviii, 380 pages : illustrations (some color), maps)
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Series	Terra Australis ; 27
	Terra Australis ; 27.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	-- Introduction -- The Sydney Basin -- Environmental Context -- Social context -- Archaeological context -- The rock art of the Sydney Basin -- Excavations at Yengo 1 and Yengo 2 -- Excavation at the Great Mackerel Rockshelter -- Excavations at Upside-Down-Man -- The Contemporaneity of Art and Deposit -- Diachronic variation in the art of the Sydney Basin -- Synchronic variation: Sydney Basin engraved art -- Regional synchronic variation: shelter art -- Dreamtime superhighway: modelling a regional style.
Summary	"Dreamtime superhighway presents a thorough and original contextualization of the rock art and archaeology of the Sydney Basin. By combining excavation results with rock art analysis it demonstrates that a true archaeology of rock art can provide insights into rock art image-making in people's social and cultural lives. McDonald has developed a model that suggests that visual culture - such as rock art-making and its images and forms - could be understood as a system of communication, as a way of signaling group identifying behaviour."--Provided by publisher
Language	English.
Subject	Rock paintings -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.)
	Petroglyphs -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.)
	Visual communication in art -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.)
	Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.)
	Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) -- Antiquities.
	Sydney Basin (N.S.W.) -- Antiquities.
	Petroglyphs.
	Visual communication in art.
	Pétroglyphes.
	Communication visuelle dans l'art.
	Pétroglyphes -- Australie -- Sydney, Bassin de (N.-G. du S.)
	Art australien (aborigène) -- Australie -- Sydney, Bassin de (N.-G. du S.)
	Archaeology.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
	Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities
	Antiquities
	Art, Aboriginal Australian
	Petroglyphs
	Rock paintings
	Visual communication in art
	New South Wales -- Sydney Basin
	Rock paintings -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin.
	Petroglyphs -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin.
	Visual communication in art -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin.
	Art, Aboriginal Australian -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin.
	Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin -- Antiquities.
	Rock paintings -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin.
	Petroglyphs -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin.
	Visual communication in art -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin.
	Art, Aboriginal Australian -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin.
	Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Sydney Basin -- Antiquities.
Indexed Term	rock art
	australia
	aboriginal australians
	archeology
	new south wales
	sydney basin
	Before Present
	Darug
	Dreamtime
	Kuringgai
	Pigment
	Terra Australis
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: 9781921536168
ISBN	9781921536175 (electronic bk.)
	1921536179 (electronic bk.)
	9781921536168 (Print)
	1921536160
	9781921536168
Standard No.	10.26530/OAPEN_459083 doi
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