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0000-0002-4821-7183
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Griffith University
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Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archaeology | Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Digital archaeology
Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Understanding Australia's Past | Understanding Asia's Past |
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 21-08-2019
DOI: 10.5194/ISPRS-ANNALS-IV-2-W6-77-2019
Abstract: Abstract. This paper looks at the current state of e-research strategies in rock art on the ex le of the Global Rock Art Database, global and Australian e-research communities. It examines current practice, attitudes and requirements for discipline specific research methods in an integrated data management cycle approach. Analysing qualitative and quantitative data collected between 2012 and 2018 through conversations, consultations, a cross-sectional questionnaire and a longitudinal study of the Rock Art Database, the paper compares it’s findings to previous interdisciplinary studies within e-research environments. The resulting data illustrates current practice and trends in rock art within an e-research context and aims to inform future best practice towards integrated data models digitally connecting international research data.
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
Date: 18-08-2021
Abstract: The introduction of new animals into hunter-gatherer societies produces a variety of cultural responses. This article explores the role of rock art in western Arnhem Land, Australia, in helping to mediate contact-period changes in Indigenous society in the nineteenth century. The authors explore etic and emic perspectives on the ‘re-emergence’ of water buffalo into Aboriginal cultural life. Merging archaeological analysis, rock art and ethnographic accounts, the article demonstrates how such artworks were used as a tool for maintaining order in times of dramatic social change. The results of this research have significant implications for understanding how cultural groups and in iduals worldwide used rock art during periods of upheaval.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 22-04-2022
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774322000129
Abstract: Depictions of mythical beings appear in many different forms of art world-wide, including rock art of various ages. In this paper we explore a particular type of imagery, back-to-back figures, consisting of two human-like figures or animals of the same species next to each other and facing in opposite directions. Some human-like doubles were joined at the back rather than side-by-side, but also face opposite directions. In this paper, we report on new research on rock art, bark paintings and recent paintings on paper and chart a 9000-year history of making aesthetically, symbolically and spiritually powerful back-to-back figures in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-06-2019
DOI: 10.1017/AAP.2019.10
Abstract: Even though Southeast Asia is one of the most densely populated regions of the world, its rock art is relatively unknown, and the rock art of Micronesia is even less so. As a starting point for comparing Philippine rock art within the region, a systematic quantitative literature review (SQLR) was conducted to assess the current body of accessible publications. The SQLR resulted in 126 viable references, and characteristics of those references were quantified and analyzed to ascertain the qualities of research published to date. The SQLR results show that scholarship in Southeast Asian rock art is increasing and that the research is dominated by Australia-affiliated scholars. It also quantitatively affirmed that the most noted color for rock art in the region is red and the most commonly identified motif is anthropomorphic. Many motifs found elsewhere in Southeast Asia are notably absent in the known corpus of Philippine rock art. Finally, we discuss SQLR methodology and propose integrating collaborative semantic web applications to increase efficiency and relevance.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-05-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-05-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 04-2021
DOI: 10.3390/RS13071357
Abstract: The intensity values of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) can be used to reveal painted black rock art behind graffiti and moss. The effect was observed in Gumahon cave in Peñablanca, Philippines where previously unnoticed black pigment was exposed underneath moss, red and white painted graffiti, and etched name graffiti. The application of TLS intensity values for this purpose has not, to our knowledge, been previously reported. The significance of this finding is that archaeologists are provided a new method of detecting obfuscated rock art that can aid interpretation. The method can be applied in similar contexts as black painted rock art is common in limestone caves across Southeast Asia and Micronesia, but also ubiquitous globally.
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.5334/JCAA.101
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-01-2021
Publisher: US Geological Survey
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.3133/SIR20185047
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-09-2021
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5251
Abstract: This paper provides a complete overview of all the known rock art sites to demonstrate the variation in motifs and techniques used in the Philippines, outline the indigenous associations, and highlight issues for conservation. In addition, new findings are introduced that include a second rock art site in Alab and previously unnoticed styles of rock art in Peñablanca. In recent years, the study of Philippine rock art has also yielded valuable contributions for archaeology both in methods and theory. Recording the rock art in challenging contexts necessitated the development of several pioneering digital methods, some low‐cost, to see obfuscated rock art and expedite inventories that can be used worldwide. After reviewing the rock art in the Philippines, it is clear that the much‐debated Austronesian rock art theories do not apply to these sites. A comparison of similar motifs and their contexts found in Southeast Asia and Micronesia is a starting point for developing new rock art theories in the region.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 30-04-2021
DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2021.29
Abstract: This paper integrates the first rock art directly dated with radiocarbon ( 14 C) in Southeast Asia with the archaeological activity in the area and with stylistically similar rock art in the region. Peñablanca is a hotspot of archaeological research that includes the oldest dates for human remains in the Philippines. The caves in Peñablanca with known rock art were revisited and only 37.6% of the original recorded figures were found the others are likely lost to agents of deterioration. A s le was collected from an anthropomorph and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dated to 3570–3460 cal BP. The date corresponds to archaeological activity in the area and provides a more holistic view of the people inhabiting the Peñablanca caves at that time. A systematic review was used to find similar black anthropomorph motifs in Southeast Asia to identify potential connections across the region and provide a possible chronological association.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 02-01-2020
DOI: 10.3390/RS12010154
Abstract: Majuro Atoll in the central Pacific has high coastal vulnerability due to low-lying islands, rising sea level, high wave events, eroding shorelines, a dense population center, and limited freshwater resources. Land elevation is the primary geophysical variable that determines exposure to inundation in coastal settings. Accordingly, coastal elevation data (with accuracy information) are critical for assessments of inundation exposure. Previous research has demonstrated the importance of using high-accuracy elevation data and rigorously accounting for uncertainty in inundation assessments. A quantitative analysis of inundation exposure was conducted for Majuro Atoll, including accounting for the cumulative vertical uncertainty from the input digital elevation model (DEM) and datum transformation. The project employed a recently produced and validated DEM derived from structure-from-motion processing of very-high-resolution aerial imagery. Areas subject to marine inundation (direct hydrologic connection to the ocean) and low-lying lands (disconnected hydrologically from the ocean) were mapped and characterized for three inundation levels using deterministic and probabilistic methods. At the highest water level modeled (3.75 ft, or 1.143 m), more than 34% of the atoll study area is likely to be exposed to inundation (68% chance or greater), while more than 20% of the atoll is extremely likely to be exposed (95% chance or greater). The study demonstrates the substantial value of a high-accuracy DEM for assessing inundation exposure of low-relief islands and the enhanced information from accounting for vertical uncertainty.
Start Date: 2024
End Date: 12-2026
Amount: $437,774.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 06-2022
End Date: 06-2027
Amount: $848,116.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 07-2021
End Date: 07-2024
Amount: $273,828.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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