A Companion to Rock Art

List of Plates ix
<p>List of Figures xi</p>
<p>List of Tables xvi</p>
<p>Notes on Contributors xviii</p>
<p>Foreword: Redefining the Mainstream with Rock Art xxix<br /> Margaret W. Conkey</p>
<p>1 Research Issues and New Directions: One Decade into the New Millennium 1<br /> Jo McDonald and Peter Veth</p>
<p>Part I Explanatory Frameworks: New Insights 15</p>
<p>2 Rock Art and Shamanism 17<br /> J. David Lewis–Williams</p>
<p>3 Pictographs, Patterns, and Peyote in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas 34<br /> Carolyn E. Boyd</p>
<p>4 Variation in Early Paintings and Engravings 51<br /> Iain Davidson</p>
<p>Part II Inscribed Landscapes 69</p>
<p>5 Rock Art and Seascapes 71<br /> Ian J. McNiven and Liam M. Brady</p>
<p>6 The Social Dynamics of Aggregation and Dispersal in the Western Desert 90<br /> Jo McDonald and Peter Veth</p>
<p>7 Rock Art and Transformed Landscapes in Puerto Rico 103<br /> Michele H. Hayward and Michael A. Cinquino</p>
<p>Part III Rock Art at the Regional Level 125</p>
<p>8 Megalithic Rock Art of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Seaboard Europe 127<br /> George Nash</p>
<p>9 North American Siberian Connections: Regional Rock Art Patterning Using Multivariate Statistics 143<br /> Alice Tratebas</p>
<p>10 Southern Melanesian Rock Art: The New Caledonian Case 160<br /> Christophe Sand</p>
<p>11 Rock Art Research in India: Historical Approaches and Recent Theoretical Directions 179<br /> James Blinkhorn, Nicole Boivin, Paul S. C. Ta&ccedil;on, and Michael D. Petraglia</p>
<p>Part IV Engendered Approaches 197</p>
<p>12 Engendering Rock Art 199<br /> Kelley Hays–Gilpin</p>
<p>13 Pictures of Women: The Social Context of Australian Rock Art Production 214<br /> Jo McDonald</p>
<p>14 Engendering North European Rock Art: Bodies and Cosmologies in Stone and Bronze Age Imagery 237<br /> Joakim Goldhahn and Ingrid Fuglestvedt</p>
<p>Part V Form, Style, and Aesthetics in Rock Art 261</p>
<p>15 Understanding Pleistocene Rock Art: An Hermeneutics of Meaning 263<br /> Oscar Moro Abad&iacute;a and Manuel R. Gonz&aacute;lez Morales</p>
<p>16 Rock Art and Art: Why Aesthetics Should Matter 276<br /> Thomas Heyd</p>
<p>17 Recursive and Iterative Processes in Australian Rock Art: An Anthropological Perspective 294<br /> Howard Morphy</p>
<p>18 A Theoretical Approach to Style in Levantine Rock Art 306<br /> In&eacute;s Domingo Sanz</p>
<p>Part VI Contextualizing Rock Art 323</p>
<p>19 Rock Art in Situ: Context and Content as Keys to Meaning 325<br /> Linea Sundstrom</p>
<p>20 Symbolic Discontinuities: Rock Art and Social Changes across Time and Space 341<br /> Maria Isabel Hern&aacute;ndez Llosas</p>
<p>21 Parietal Art and Archaeological Context: Activities of the Magdalenians in the Cave of Tuc d Audoubert, France 364<br /> Robert B&eacute;gou&euml;n, Carole Fritz, and Gilles Tosello</p>
<p>22 Rock Art, Inherited Landscapes, and Human Populations in Southern Patagonia 381<br /> Judith Charlin and Luis A. Borrero</p>
<p>Part VII The Mediating Role of Rock Art 399</p>
<p>23 When Worlds Collide Quietly: Rock Art and the Mediation of Distance 401<br /> Ursula K. Frederick</p>
<p>24 Picturing Change and Changing Pictures: Contact Period Rock Art of Australia 420<br /> Paul S.C. Ta&ccedil;on, June Ross, Alistair Paterson, and Sally May</p>
<p>Part VIII Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity 437</p>
<p>25 Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity 439<br /> Robert Layton</p>
<p>26 Shamanism in Indigenous Context: Understanding Siberian Rock Art 455<br /> Andrzej Rozwadowski</p>
<p>27 Rock Art, Aboriginal Culture, and Identity: The Wanjina Paintings of Northwest Australia 472<br /> Valda Blundell and Donny Woolagoodja</p>
<p>Part IX Rock Art Management and Interpretation 489</p>
<p>28 Rock Art and the UNESCO World Heritage List 491<br /> Nuria Sanz</p>
<p>29 Safeguarding a Fragile Legacy: Managing uKhahlamba–Drakensberg Rock Art 515<br /> Aron Mazel</p>
<p>30 Managing Rock Art Sites 532<br /> Valerie Magar</p>
<p>31 From Discovery to Commoditization: Rock Art Management in Remote Australia 546<br /> Peter Veth</p>
<p>Part X Dating Rock Art: Technological Advances and Applications 563</p>
<p>32 Radiocarbon Dating of Rock Paintings: Incorporating Pictographs into the Archaeological Record 565<br /> Karen L. Steelman and Marvin W. Rowe</p>
<p>33 Twelve Years of Research in Chauvet Cave: Methodology and Main Results 583<br /> Jean Clottes and Jean–Michel Geneste</p>
<p>34 In Suspect Terrain: Dating Rock Engravings 605<br /> David S. Whitley</p>
<p>Part XI Rock Art in the Digital Age 625</p>
<p>35 Digital Enhancement of Deteriorated and Superimposed Pigment Art: Methods and Case Studies 627<br /> Liam M. Brady and Robert G. Gunn</p>
<p>36 Robust and Scientifically Reliable Rock Art Documentation from Digital Photographs 644<br /> Mark Mudge, Carla Schroer, Tommy Noble, Neffra Matthews, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and Corey Toler–Franklin</p>
<p>37 Engaging a New Digital Citizenry 660<br /> Michael Ashley and Cinzia Perlingieri</p>
<p>Index 670</p>