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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread
of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our
species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique
insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our
ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images
were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews.
Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of
and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these
dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across
place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists
have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open
and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have
revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford
Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases
examples of such research from around the world and across a broad
range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional
variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in
the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended
to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own
preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical
approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge
methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional
researcher alike.
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