The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa: “The Disconnect”

S Challis, B Sinclair-Thomson - Current Anthropology, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
The archaeological record undergoes a dramatic shift in appearance whenever indigenous
peoples encounter incoming populations—whether in the form of economy, politics, or …

Paleolithic art: a cultural history

O Moro Abadía, MR González Morales - Journal of Archaeological …, 2013 - Springer
In this article we review the history of the terms and ideas that have been used to
conceptualize Paleolithic art since the end of the 19th century. Between 1900 and 1970 …

Who painted that? The authorship of Schematic rock art at the Los Machos rockshelter in southern Iberia

F Martínez-Sevilla, M Arqués, X Jordana, A Malgosa… - Antiquity, 2020 - cambridge.org
Globally, rock art is one of the most widely distributed manifestations of past human activity.
Previous research, however, has tended to focus on the art rather than artists …

[图书][B] Dorothea Bleek: a life of scholarship

J Weintroub - 2016 - books.google.com
Dorothea Bleek (1873–1948) devoted her life to completing the 'bushman researches' that
her father and aunt had begun in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. This …

Relational ontologies and performance: Identifying humans and nonhuman animals in the rock art from north-eastern Kimberley, Australia

AP Motta, PM Veth - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2021 - Elsevier
Even though the study of animal depictions in early art is one of the most researched topics
in rock art, interpretations have often been anthropocentric. Rather than seeing how human …

[图书][B] The origins of religion in the Paleolithic

GJ Wightman - 2014 - books.google.com
How did religion emerge—and why? What are the links between behavior, environment,
and religiosity? Diving millions of years into the past, to a time when human ancestors …

Somatogenesis: vibrations, undulations and the possible depiction of sound in San rock paintings of elephants in the Western Cape

J Parkington, A Paterson - South African Archaeological Bulletin, 2017 - search.informit.org
The painted undulating lines surrounding and linking elephants in Western Cape rock art
have previously been identified as entoptic visions seen by shaman/painters while in altered …

Toward an Understanding of Indigenous Rock Art from an Ideational Cognitive Perspective: History, Method, and Theory from West Texas, North America, and Beyond

J Hampson - 2022 - academic.oup.com
Many years before the so-called ontological and materialist turns in archaeological and
anthropological theory, ideational cognitive archaeologists made progress towards …

Beswick Creek Cave six decades later: change and continuity in the rock art of Doria Gudaluk

C Smith, ID Sanz, G Jackson - Antiquity, 2016 - cambridge.org
The rock art of Doria Gudaluk (Beswick Creek Cave) in the Northern Territory of Australia
has previously provided a valuable lesson in the difficulties of definitive interpretation …

Dances with Zigzags in Toro Muerto, Peru: Geometric Petroglyphs as (Possible) Embodiments of Songs

A Rozwadowski, JZ Wołoszyn - Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2024 - cambridge.org
Southern Peru is home to one of the richest sites with rock art in South America—Toro
Muerto. A unique aspect of the iconography of the petroglyphs of the site is the figures of …