Rock Art and Seascapes

A Companion to Rock Art

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 69-89

  Mcniven, Ian J ^a   Brady, Liam M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aneityumese rock art sites and fishing magic; Inscribed landscapes and seascapes, the phenomenological approach; Key elements, for an archaeology of rock art and seascapes; Maritime identity and marine motif rock art, being far from direct; Maritime peoples and seascape construction, rock art and maritime worlds; Maritime peoples, reconciling terrestrial spaces with maritime identity; Rock art and agency, poststructuralist understandings of material culture; Rock art and seascapes, and maritime peoples rich in symbolic meanings; Rock art, options limited for practical reasons to intertidal zone on land; Seascape rock art, not being the same as coastal rock art

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887150253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118253892.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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