Working with rock art : recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge / edited by Benjamin W. Smith, Knut Helskog, David Morris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume contains cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion, and it therefore makes a significant contribution to the discipline. The volume aims to promote the sharing of new experiences between leading researchers in the field. While the geographic focus is truly global, there is a dominant north-south axis with strong representation from researchers in southern Africa and northern Europe, two leading centres for new approaches in rock art research. Working with Rock Art opens up a long overdue dialogue about shared experiences between these two centres, and a number of the chapters are the first published results of new collaborative research--Internet.

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contributors; PART 1: ON DOCUMENTING ROCK ART; Chapter 1. Rock art management: Juggling with paradoxes and compromises, and how to live with them; The problem; What do we manage when managing rock art?; The relationship between research and management; Case: Tamgaly, Kazakhstan; Interaction: Documentation, research and management; The problem revisited; References; Chapter 2. Expressing intangibles: A recording experience with /Xam rock engravings; Introduction; Ways of recording rock engravings; Narrative recording.

Rock art and visual anthropologyPossibilities and limitations; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 3. Aspects of documentation for conservation purposes exemplified by rock art; Introduction; Part 1: Initial remarks on conservation; Part 2: Some aspects of rock art conservation; References; Chapter 4. The position of rock art: A consideration of how GIS can contribute to the understanding of the age and authorship of rock art; Introduction; Large-scale analysis of horizontal patterning; Small-scale analysis of vertical patterning; Discussion; Conclusion; References.

Chapter 5. Rock art in context: Theoretical aspects of pragmatic data collectionsContext and basic human needs; The context of rock art; The Brandberg/Daureb case study; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Representing southern African San rock art: A move towards digitisation; Introduction; A history of southern African San rock art representation; The 'scientific' approach; The socially negotiated approach; Storm Shelter, Maclear District Southeastern South Africa: A case study; Is digital the answer?; Discussion and conclusion; Notes; References.

Chapter 7. The routine of documentationIntroduction; The many sides of documentation; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 8. Prehistoric explorations in rock: Investigations beneath and beyond engraved surfaces; Introduction; Inward and outward perspectives; Involvements in rock; The depths of rock; The empirical aspect; Conclusion; References; PART 2: ON UNDERSTANDING ROCK ART USING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; Chapter 9. Politics, ethnography and prehistory: In search of an 'informed' approach to Finnish and Karelian rock art; Introduction.

The rock art region and local ethnohistorical sourcesAnalogical reasoning in archaeology; 'Bridging arguments' for an informed approach to Finnish-Karelian rock art; Uralic bird-mythology and the engravings of Lake Onega; Looking back: Finnish archaeology, nationalism and The Kalevala; Russian and Soviet archaeology: From dogmatic Marxism to ethnographically inspired research; Conclusions: Ethnography, politics and the 'informed' approach; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Chapter 10. Ethnography and history: The significance of social change in interpreting rock art; Introduction; Analogy.

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