Making sense of scenes

Rock Art Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-42

  May, Sally K ^a   Sanz, Inés Domingo ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arnhem land; Ethnoarchaeology; Rock art; Scene; Social practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052020299     PISSN: 08130426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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