A companion to rock art

1st ed

1 online resource (738 p.); A Companion to Rock Art; List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword: Redefining the Mainstream with Rock Art; CHAPTER 1: Research Issues and New Directions: One Decade into the New Millennium; PART I: Explanatory Frameworks: New Insights; CHAPTER 2: Rock Art and Shamanism; CHAPTER 3: Pictographs, Patterns, and Peyote in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas; CHAPTER 4: Variation in Early Paintings and Engravings; PART II: Inscribed Landscapes; CHAPTER 5: Rock Art and Seascapes; CHAPTER 12: Engendering Rock ArtCHAPTER 13: Pictures of Women: The Social Context of Australian Rock Art Production; CHAPTER 14: Engendering North European Rock Art: Bodies and Cosmologies in Stone and Bronze Age Imagery; PART V: Form, Style, and Aesthetics in Rock Art; CHAPTER 15: Understanding Pleistocene Rock Art: An Hermeneutics of Meaning; CHAPTER 16: Rock "Art" and Art: Why Aesthetics Should Matter; CHAPTER 17: Recursive and Iterative Processes in Australian Rock Art: An Anthropological Perspective; CHAPTER 18: A Theoretical Approach to Style in Levantine Rock Art; CHAPTER 24: Picturing Change and Changing Pictures: Contact Period Rock Art of AustraliaPART VIII: Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity; CHAPTER 25: Rock Art, Identity, and Indigeneity; CHAPTER 26: Shamanism in Indigenous Context: Understanding Siberian Rock Art; CHAPTER 27: Rock Art, Aboriginal Culture, and Identity: The Wanjina Paintings of Northwest Australia; PART IX: Rock Art Management and Interpretation; CHAPTER 28: Rock Art and the UNESCO World Heritage List; CHAPTER 29: Safeguarding a Fragile Legacy: Managing uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Rock Art; CHAPTER 30: Managing Rock Art Sites; CHAPTER 31: From Discovery to Commoditization: Rock Art Management in Remote Australia; CHAPTER 6: The Social Dynamics of Aggregation and Dispersal in the Western DesertCHAPTER 7: Rock Art and Transformed Landscapes in Puerto Rico; PART III: Rock Art at the Regional Level; CHAPTER 8: Megalithic Rock Art of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Seaboard Europe; CHAPTER 9: North American-Siberian Connections: Regional Rock Art Patterning Using Multivariate Statistics; CHAPTER 10: Southern Melanesian Rock Art: The New Caledonian Case; CHAPTER 11: Rock Art Research in India: Historical Approaches and Recent Theoretical Directions; PART IV: Engendered Approaches; Description based upon print version of record; Dewey classification: 709.01/13; Includes bibliographical references and index; PART VI: Contextualizing Rock ArtCHAPTER 19: Rock Art in Situ: Context and Content as Keys to Meaning; CHAPTER 20: Symbolic Discontinuities: Rock Art and Social Changes across Time and Space; CHAPTER 21: Parietal Art and Archaeological Context: Activities of the Magdalenians in the Cave of Tuc d'Audoubert, France; CHAPTER 22: Rock Art, Inherited Landscapes, and Human Populations in Southern Patagonia; PART VII: The Mediating Role of Rock Art; CHAPTER 23: When Worlds Collide Quietly: Rock Art and the Mediation of Distance; Publication place: Hoboken, New Jersey; Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology