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  • Rock art, cultural change, the media and national heritage identity in the 21st Century

    Author(s)
    Taçon, PSC
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Tacon, Paul S.
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    Rock art sites contain some of the world's greatest works of art, aesthetically powerful and spiritually charged imagery embedded in cultural landscapes. Rock art is found worldwide, but both Australia and southern Africa each have at least 100,000 rock art sites and many new discoveries are made globally each year. The oldest surviving Australian and African rock art is at least 28,000 years of age (David et al. 2013; Wendt 1976), while in Spain and parts of Southeast Asia there are images closer to 40,000 years old (Aubert et al. 2014; Pike et al. 2012). In many parts of the Americas, Australia, Africa and Asia, rock art ...
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    Rock art sites contain some of the world's greatest works of art, aesthetically powerful and spiritually charged imagery embedded in cultural landscapes. Rock art is found worldwide, but both Australia and southern Africa each have at least 100,000 rock art sites and many new discoveries are made globally each year. The oldest surviving Australian and African rock art is at least 28,000 years of age (David et al. 2013; Wendt 1976), while in Spain and parts of Southeast Asia there are images closer to 40,000 years old (Aubert et al. 2014; Pike et al. 2012). In many parts of the Americas, Australia, Africa and Asia, rock art continued to be made until very recently; in some places, such as Australia's Kakadu National Park, some form of pigment-based art appears to have been made continuously from when humans first arrived to the present (Taçon 2011).
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    Book Title
    Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World: Navigating Symbolism, Meaning, and Significance
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.5876/9781607324980.c001
    Subject
    Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
    Archaeology not elsewhere classified
    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archaeology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/143370
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