Rock Art and Prehistory (Oxbow Monograph)

A selection of papers from the 1988 Australian Rock Art Conference at Darwin. Topics are: The myth of hunting magic in Palaeolithic art (P. Bahn), Max Raphael's contributions to the study of prehistoric symbol systems (S. Chesney), Figure, motif and symbol in the hunter-gatherer rock art of Europe and Australia (R. Layton), Handstencils: Rock art or not art (A. Forge), Female artists in sacred rock art production (C. E. Smith), An interpretation of images of women in the rock art of Northern Australia (M. Bullen), Pictogram dating in Santana do Riacho rockshelter near Lagoa Santa, Brazil (A. Prous), Rock art in Indonesia (E. A. Kosasih), Archaeology and art in the Sydney region (J. McDonald), Distributional aspects of prehistoric Irish petroglyphs (S. Johnston), Art and Tasmanian prehistory: evidence for changing cultural traditions (S. Brown), !Pictures and pictures of ... (J. Clegg), What's in an anthropomorph? (K. L. C. Officer), Explorations of the Panaramitee style (N. Franklin), Panaramitee: dead or alive? (A. Rosenfeld). 144p with illus. (Oxbow Monograph 10, 1991) Pb