Working with Rock Art Recording, Presenting and Understanding Rock Art Using Indigenous Knowledge

by Smith, Benjamin; Helskog, Knut; Morris, David

• ISBN13: 9781868145454
• ISBN10: 186814545X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-07-01
• Publisher: Wits University Press

Summary

This volume contains cutting-edge contributions that consider new approaches to the documentation of rock art, its interpretation using indigenous knowledge, and the presentation of rock art. The first edited book to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion, this work aims to promote the sharing of new experiences between leading researchers in the field. Beginning with a dialogue about shared experiences between researchers in southern Africa and northern Europe, the chapters then share, for the first time, the published results of new collaborative research between scholars from these two centers. Since this volume covers the recording, interpretation, and presentation of rock art, it will attract a wide audience of researchers, heritage managers, and students, as well as anyone interested in the field of rock art studies.

Author Biography

Benjamin Smith is the Winthrop Professor of World Rock Art at the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management at the University of Western Australia. He is the former director of the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He is the author of Seeing and Knowing: Rock Art with and without Ethnography. Knut Helskog is a professor of archaeology at Tromsø University Museum in Norway. David Morris is the head of archaeology at the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa.