Dreamtime superhighway
Subtitle: an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange
By: Jo McDonald
Series: Terra Australis -- 27
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Canberra, A.C.T
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781921536168
Subjects: Petroglyphs; Rock paintings; Visual communication in art; Aboriginal Australian Art; Antiquities; Aboriginal Australians
Description: "Dreamtime superhighway presents a thorough and original contextualization of the rock art and archaeology of the Sydney Basin. By combining excavation results with rock art analysis it demonstrates that a true archaeology of rock art can provide insights into rock art image-making in people's social and cultural lives. McDonald has developed a model that suggests that visual culture - such as rock art-making and its images and forms - could be understood as a system of communication, as a way of signaling group identifying behaviour."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-380).

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://epress.anu.edu.au.