Rock Art Studies News of the World V

2015

Este libro compila diversos trabajos sobre arte rupestre en el mundo, desde diversos enfoques teórico-metodológicos y presentando un corpus sugerente sobre los diversos motivos rupestres localizados en diversos sitios arqueológicos. Una lectura necesaria para todo aquel interesado en el tema de la gráfica rupestre.

Time and Mind, 2019

Goldhahn, Joakim (2019). Rock art worldings. Time and Mind, The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 12 (3), 165-167.

Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World: Navigating Symbolism, Meaning, and Significance, 2016

Mention of The Global Rock-Art Database in Journal Rock-Art Research. Find Article here: http://www.afsp-perigord.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/merged.pdf

2015

Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World: Navigating Symbolism, Meaning, and Significance, 2016

I enjoyed this book a lot; much more, in fact, than I expected that I would. It does something that certainly has needed doing: it presents a global survey of some ways in which we, as contemporary living people, react to rock art and coordinate its management. The papers in this book touch on a great number of key issues that rock art researchers must address today and it does so in a cogent, if not always completely coherent, fashion. This is an achievement and all of the authors and editors are to be congratulated. There are several papers that I plan on integrating into my rock art research course syllabus and I am tempted to assign the whole book. The central theoretical point made by this book, and one expressed particularly well in the editors' introduction, is that rock art is not a static artifact but instead something that people react to continuously over long stretches of time, with reactions that often shift radically from one time, place, and/or cultural context to the next. Papers in this book scratch the surface of a vast and diverse range of subjects. Here are a few of the modern interactions with rock art presented in the book: rock paintings in Uganda that serve as a source of heritage and identity for groups who immigrated to the region relatively recently and likely did not make the rock paintings in question (Namono); an ongoing tradition of Bedouin rock engraving in the Negev Desert of Israel, where rock engraving has been used as a way of asserting tribal claims to territory over many centuries and where the earlier rock art traditions clearly played a key role in shaping later ones (Eisenberg-Degen, Nash, and Schmidt); cave paintings at Buddhist shrines in Thailand that evoke little interest or emotion in spite of their placement at places of religious worship (Tan et al.); changing public perceptions about the antiquity and value of early Holocene rock paintings in Spain and Argentina (Domingo and Bea; Fiore, Ocampo, and Acevedo); the latent racism and tackiness of modern consumer goods emulating rock art traditions in South Africa, Australia, and beyond (Smith; Tacon; Frederick) the roles of various government agencies and indigenous community groups in North America, Asia, and Australia in managing rock art sites and the social, economic, and religious interests associated with them (Norder and Zawadzka; Dongoske and Hays-Gilpin; Tacon; Cole); the transference of rock art traditions to new media and the quotation of rock art imagery for various artistic and political purposes (Smith; Tacon; Taylor; Frederick).

Human Relations Area Files, 2019

Often considered evidence of humanity's first artistry, prehistoric rock art has captivated people all over the world. Associated with many different cultures, the meaning and purpose of most forms of prehistoric rock art remain shrouded in mystery. Even the most experienced archaeologists continue to ask basic questions about rock art. What does it depict? What does it mean? Who produced it? When was it produced? What function did it serve? Here, using eHRAF Archaeology and other sources, I will explore some examples of prehistoric rock art while demonstrating how scholars have attempted to understand the ancient people that produced these mysterious markers of human artistry and creativity.

Focusing on stunning paintings and engravings from around the world, Powerful Pictures interrogates the driving forces behind global rock art research. Many of the rock art motifs featured in the 16 chapters of this book were created by indigenous hunter-gatherer groups, and it sheds new light on non-Western rituals and worldviews, many of which are threatened or on the point of extinction. Stemming from a conference in Val Camonica in northern Italy, the book is arranged by continent, although it tackles how early research in some countries (e.g., Sweden, France, Spain, the USA, Canada, South Africa) influenced the trajectory of archaeological investigations in others (e.g., Australia, India, Mexico, Germany, Mongolia, Russia). All of the contributing authors have vast experience working with rock art and Indigenous communities, many of them holding posts in prestigious university departments around the world. The book will be of particular interest to professional historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, and indeed anyone who is interested in art, symbolism, and the past.

Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database is a compilation of citations to the World's rock art literature. 800 citations extracted under the place name "Canada" from the total current compilation of over 34,500 are presented here.