Working with Rock Art: Recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge

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Recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge

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Edited by Benjamin Smith, Knut Helskog, David Morris

Publisher:: Wits University Press
Online publication date:: April 2018
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9781868145980

Subjects:: Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology

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This volume contains contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion, and it therefore makes a significant contribution to the discipline. The volume aims to promote the sharing of new experiences between leading researchers in the field. While the geographic focus is truly global, there is a dominant north-south axis with strong representation from researchers in southern Africa and northern Europe, two leading centres for new approaches in rock art research. Working with Rock Art opens up a long overdue dialogue about shared experiences between these two centres, and a number of the chapters are the first published results of new collaborative research. Since this volume covers the recording, interpretation and presentation of rock art, it will attract a wide audience of researchers, heritage managers and students, as well as anyone interested in the field of rock art studies.

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Working with Rock Art

Recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-ix

Frontispiece
pp x-x

Foreword
pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiii

Contributors
pp xiv-xvi

PART 1 - ON DOCUMENTING ROCK ART
pp 1-2

Chapter 1 - Rock art management: Juggling with paradoxes and compromises, 3 and how to live with them
pp 3-14

Chapter 2 - Expressing intangibles: A recording experience with /Xam rock engravings
pp 15-24

Chapter 3 - Aspects of documentation for conservation purposes exemplified by rock art
pp 25-36

Chapter 4 - The position of rock art: A consideration of how GIS can contribute to the understanding of the age and authorship of rock art
pp 37-46

Chapter 5 - Rock art in context: Theoretical aspects of pragmatic data collections
pp 47-60

Chapter 6 - Representing southern African San rock art: A move towards digitisation
pp 61-82

Chapter 7 - The routine of documentation
pp 83-98

Chapter 8 - Prehistoric explorations in rock: Investigations beneath and beyond engraved surfaces
pp 99-110

PART 2 - ON UNDERSTANDING ROCK ART USING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
pp 111-112

Chapter 9 - Politics, ethnography and prehistory: In search of an ‘informed’ approach to Finnish and Karelian rock art
pp 113-134

Chapter 10 - Ethnography and history: The significance of social change in interpreting rock art
pp 135-146

Chapter 11 - Symbols on stone: Following in the footsteps of the bear in Finnish antiquity
pp 147-168

Chapter 12 - Animals and humans: Metaphors of representation in south-central African rock art
pp 169-178

Chapter 13 - Ways of knowing and ways of seeing: Spiritual agents and the origins of Native American rock art
pp 179-192

Chapter 14 - Rock art, shamanism and history: Implications from a central Asian case study
pp 193-204

PART 3 - ON PRESENTING ROCK ART
pp 205-206

Chapter 15 - Presenting rock art through digital film: Recent Australian examples
pp 207-216

Chapter 16 - Rock art at present in the past
pp 217-228

Chapter 17 - The importance of Wildebeest Kuil: ‘A hill with a future, a hill with a past’
pp 229-246

Chapter 18 - Theoretical approaches and practical training for rock art site guiding and management
pp 247-256

Chapter 19 - Two related rock art conservation/education projects in Lesotho
pp 257-272

Chapter 20 - Norwegian rock art in the past, the present, and the future
pp 273-280

Chapter 21 - The presentation of rock art in South Africa: Old problems, new challenges
pp 281-292

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