Making Scenes: Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Making Scenes

Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art

Edited by: Iain Davidson and April Nowell

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789209211

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About this book

Dating back to at least 50,000 years ago, rock art is one of the oldest forms of human symbolic expression. Geographically, it spans all the continents on Earth. Scenes are common in some rock art, and recent work suggests that there are some hints of expression that looks like some of the conventions of western scenic art. In this unique volume examining the nature of scenes in rock art, researchers examine what defines a scene, what are the necessary elements of a scene, and what can the evolutionary history tell us about storytelling, sequential memory, and cognitive evolution among ancient and living cultures?

Author / Editor information

Iain Davidson was appointed at the University of New England in 1974 and was awarded a Personal Chair in 1997. He was appointed Emeritus in 2008 and took up the Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University for 2008–9. Iain has worked on Spanish Upper Palaeolithic (including Palaeolithic Art), archaeology and ethnography of Northwest Queensland, Australian rock art, archaeology and heritage, colonization of Sahul, language origins, and cognitive evolution.

April Nowell is a Palaeolithic archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Victoria. She specializes in the origins of art, language, and other symbolic behavior, in the emergence of the modern mind and in the growth and development of Neandertal and early modern human children.

Iain Davidson was appointed at the University of New England in 1974 and was awarded a Personal Chair in 1997. He was appointed Emeritus in 2008 and took up the Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University for 2008–9. Iain has worked on Spanish Upper Palaeolithic (including Palaeolithic Art), archaeology and ethnography of Northwest Queensland, Australian rock art, archaeology and heritage, colonization of Sahul, language origins, and cognitive evolution.

Reviews

“Any reader interested in the question “what makes a scene in rock art?” will find a wonderful array of answers in this book, most of them built from sophisticated theoretical frameworks and applied to worldwide case studies via the use of well-devised and relevant methods. ” • Danae Fiore, Universidad de Buenos Aires

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Margaret Conkey Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction. Behind the Scenes: Did Scenes in Rock Art Create New Ways of Seeing the World? Iain Davidson and April Nowell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Scenes and Non-Scenes in Rock Art Iain Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
Chapter 2. The Possible Signifi cance of Depicted Scenes for Cognitive Development Livio Dobrez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Chapter 3. Event Depiction in Rock Art: Landscape-Embedded Plan-View Narratives, Decontextualized Profile “Scenes,” and Their Hybrid Instances Patricia Dobrez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Chapter 4. Defining “Scenes” in Rock Art Research: Visual Conventions and Beyond Madeleine Kelly and Bruno David Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 5. Putting Southern African Rock Paintings in Context: The View from the Mirabib Rock Shelter, Western Namibia Grant S. McCall, Theodore P. Marks, Jordan Wilson, Andrew G. Schroll and James G. Enloe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter 6. Scenic Narratives of Humans and Animals in Namibian Rock Art: A Methodological Restart with Data Mining Tilman Lenssen-Erz, Eymard Fäder, Oliver Vogels and Brigitte Mathiak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Chapter 7. Between Scene and Association: Toward a Better Understanding of Scenes in the Rock Art of Iran Ebrahim Karimi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 8. Music and Dancing Scenes in the Rock Art of Central India Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak and Jean Clottes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Chapter 9. Hunting and Havoc: Narrative Scenes in the Black Desert Rock Art of Jebel Qurma, Jordan Nathalie Østerled Brusgaard and Keshia A. N. Akkermans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Chapter 10. Making a Scene: An Analysis of Rock Art Panels from the Northwest Kimberley and Central Desert, Australia June Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Chapter 11. Scene but Not Heard: Seeing Scenes in a Northern Australian Aboriginal Site Madeleine Kelly, Bruno David and Josephine Flood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Chapter 12. A Comparison of “Scenes” in Parietal and Non-Parietal Upper Paleolithic Imagery: Formal Differences and Ontological Implications Elisabeth Culley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Chapter 13. Scene Makers: Finger Fluters in Rouffignac Cave, France Leslie Van Gelder and April Nowell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Chapter 14. Maps in Prehistoric Art Pilar Utrilla, Carlos Mazo, Rafael Domingo and Manuel Bea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Chapter 15. Scenes in the Paleolithic and Levantine Art of Eastern Spain Valentín Villaverde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Chapter 16. New Insights into the Analysis of Levantine Rock Art Scenes Informed by Observations on Western Arnhem Land Rock Art Inés Domingo Sanz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Chapter 17. Rules of Ordering and Grouping in the Pitoti, the Later Prehistoric Rock Engravings of Valcamonica (BS), Italy: from Solitary Figures through Clusters, Graphic Groups, and Scenes to Narrative Craig Alexander, Alberto Marretta, Thomas Huet and Christopher Chippindale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Chapter 18. Finding Order out of Chaos: A Statistical Analysis of Nine Mile Canyon Rock Art Jerry D. Spangler and Iain Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Chapter 19. Interpreting Scenes in the Rock Art of the Canadian Maritimes Bryn Tapper and Oscar Moro Abadía Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Chapter 20. The “Black Series” in the Hunting Scenes of Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, Patagonia, Argentina Carlos A. Aschero and Patricia Schneier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
Epilogue. Is There More to Scenes than Meets the Eye? Iain Davidson and April Nowell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332