Picturing Change and Changing Pictures: Contact Period Rock Art of Australia

A Companion to Rock Art

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 420-436

  Taçon, Paul S C ^a   Ross, June ^e   Paterson, Alistair ^b   May, Sally ^c,d  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Aboriginal people, ways of identifying within the rock art assemblage; Central Australia complex post contact, and simple introduced horses camels; Contact period rock art, recognition nine ways with more than one used; Names engraved alongside old totemic motifs, attesting incorporation of new ways; Picturing change and changing pictures, rock art of Australia and contact period; Picturing Change research, confirming re markings of traditional rock art imagery; Picturing Change, a new national Australian rock art research project; Pilbara, Western Australia, and Western Arnhem Land, diverse contact period imagery; Rock art and Australian Indigenous rock art, a national awareness; Wollemi National Park, World Heritage Area, removed from introduced subjects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880066560     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118253892.ch24     Document Type: Chapter

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