Paleoart and Materiality: The Scientific Study of Rock Art - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784914290 ISBN 13: 9781784914295

Verlag: Archaeopress, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This book contains a series of selected papers presented at two symposia entitled &;Scientific study of rock art&;, one held in the IFRAO Congress of Rock Art in La Paz, Bolivia, in June 2012, the other held in the IFRAO Congress in Cáceres, Spain, in September 2015; as well as some invited papers from leading rock art scientists. The core topic of the book is the presentation of scientific approaches to the materiality of rock art, ranging from recording and sampling methods to data analyses. These share the fact that they provide means of testing hypotheses and/or of finding trends in the data which can be used as independent sources of evidence to support specific interpretations. The issue of the materiality of visual productions of the distant past, which in archaeological theory has attracted much attention recently and has stimulated much conceptual debate, is addressed through a variety of scientific approaches, including fieldwork methods, laboratory work techniques and/or data analysis protocols. These, in turn, will provide new insights into human agency and people-image engagements through the study of rock art production, display and use.

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Robert G. Bednarik is the Convener and Editor-in-Chief of the International Federation of Rock Art Organisations and is affiliated with Hebei Normal University, China. His principal research interests are the origins of the human ability to create constructs of reality, the evolution of humans, and a variety of fields providing supplementary information in that quest, including the world’s rock art. He has produced more than 1350 academic publications.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Archaeopress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1784914290
• ISBN 13: 9781784914295
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Bednarik Robert G., Fiore Danae, Basile Mara, Kumar Giriraj, Huisheng Tang
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