ORCID Profile
0000-0003-2805-023X
Current Organisation
University of Adelaide
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Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene | Cultural Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | Aboriginal Cultural Studies |
Understanding Australia's Past | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2018
Publisher: Springer New York
Date: 2014
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 30-11-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-09-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 15-03-2018
DOI: 10.1017/S095977431800015X
Abstract: This paper addresses the motivations for producing the rare object stencils found in the rock art of western Arnhem Land. We present evidence for 84 stencils recorded as part of the Mirarr Gunwarddebim project in western Arnhem Land, northern Australia. Ranging from boomerangs to dilly bags, armlets and spearthrowers, this assemblage suggests something other than a common or ongoing culture practice of stencilling objects used in everyday life. Instead, we suggest that these stencils represent an entirely different function in rock art through a process of memorialization that was rare, opportunistic and highly selective.
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: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-04-2021
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 06-2013
DOI: 10.22459/MHH.06.2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-07-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-02-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2021
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-05-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 14-08-2017
DOI: 10.1017/S095977431700052X
Abstract: Early depictions of anthropomorphs in rock art provide unique insights into life during the deep past. This includes human engagements with the environment, socio-cultural practices, gender and uses of material culture. In Australia, the Dynamic Figure rock paintings of Arnhem Land are recognized as the earliest style in the region where humans are explicitly depicted. Important questions, such as the nature and significance of body adornment in rock art and society, can be explored, given the detailed nature of the human figurative art and the sheer number of scenes depicted. In this paper, we make a case for Dynamic Figure rock art having some of the earliest and most extensive depictions of complex anthropomorph scenes found anywhere in the world.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-01-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-04-2018
Publisher: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Date: 1970
DOI: 10.5209/CMPL.58431
Abstract: Este artículo reflexiona de manera crítica sobre el potencial de la investigación etnoarqueológica para contribuir a la comprensión de los procesos de creación y el uso del arte rupestre. A diferencia de la mayor parte de los estudios arqueológicos, centrados en el estudio de materiales y objetos separados de sus autores desde hace mucho tiempo, la investigación etnoarqueológica implica trabajar con personas y restos contemporáneos y requiere una atención a sensibilidades culturales que pueden ser notablemente distintas a las del investigador. Por ello, también reflexionaremos sobre las implicaciones éticas y metodológicas de este tipo de investigación, que a nuestro juicio pueden resultar particularmente relevantes para los investigadores españoles, dada la falta de formación etnoarqueológica de las universidades españolas. Las reflexiones presentadas en este artículo son fruto de una larga experiencia colaborando y aprendiendo de los Ancianos y de los artistas de varias comunidades Aborígenes situadas en el oeste de la Tierra de Arnhem y en la región de Barunga (Territorio del Norte, Australia).
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 05-2020
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774320000104
Abstract: This paper explores the complex story of a particular style of rock art in western Arnhem Land known as ‘Painted Hands’. Using new evidence from recent fieldwork, we present a definition for their style, distribution and place in the stylistic chronologies of this region. We argue these motifs played an important cultural role in Aboriginal society during the period of European settlement in the region. We explore the complex messages embedded in the design features of the Painted Hands, arguing that they are more than simply hand stencils or markers of in iduality. We suggest that these figures represent stylized and intensely encoded motifs with the power to communicate a high level of personal, clan and ceremonial identity at a time when all aspects of Aboriginal cultural identity were under threat.
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 30-11-2017
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 08-10-2020
DOI: 10.22459/BBC.2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
Publisher: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques
Date: 2016
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 06-2011
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: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-02-2022
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774322000026
Abstract: Cassowaries ( Casuarius ) are one of the largest indigenous animal species of New Guinea. Researchers have long been trying to understand their local socio-cultural significance. Here we present new results from interviews recorded in 2018 on ethnography associated with bone daggers, a material culture ornament and tool carved from the cassowary's tibiotarsus. We present a ‘storied notion’—a contemporary narrative from oral history of why cassowary is not simply a bird, and briefly describe cassowary bone ornamentation in Auwim, East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. By exploring the material history of Casuarius through a ‘storied notion’ approach, we reveal that cassowary bone daggers in rock art are narrative ideas of the species from its landscape to ornamentation and through to people's cosmological beliefs surrounding Casuarius . We argue that the cassowary bone dagger stencil can be seen as part of the life history of this animal.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-05-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-03-2023
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5287
Abstract: Hand stencils directly represent modern humans in landscape settings around the world. Yet their social and cultural contexts are often overlooked due to the lack of ethnography associated with the artwork. This paper explores the hand stencils from Kundumbue and Pundimbung rock art sites, situated in the traditional boundaries of the Auwim people in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Combining archaeological rock art analysis with ethnographic knowledge, we demonstrate that the hand stencils are a priority in each clan's place‐making practices, around which they construct the community's social narratives. Rock shelters and their rock art also show a form of communal history that is evoked through their production in contemporary settings, in addition to having been a form of esoteric magic in the past. We conclude that hand stencils can have multiple meanings over time and across space as a widespread cultural marker. However, aspects of the identities of in iduals, groups and communities who created the now static hand imagery, remain in place.
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 27-01-2010
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774310000053
Abstract: The naturalistic rock art of Yunnan Province is poorly known outside of China despite two decades of investigation by local researchers. The authors report on the first major international study of this art, its place in antiquity and its resemblance to some of the rock art of Europe, southern Africa and elsewhere. While not arguing a direct connection between China, Europe and other widely separated places, this article suggests that rock-art studies about the nature of style, culture contact and the transmission of iconography across space and time need to take better account of the results of neuroscience research, similar economic/ecological circumstances and the probability of independent invention.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2012
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 2018
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2008
End Date: 2011
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 07-2021
End Date: 07-2024
Amount: $273,828.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2016
End Date: 12-2018
Amount: $490,100.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 04-2022
End Date: 03-2026
Amount: $961,139.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2008
End Date: 12-2012
Amount: $565,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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