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Prehistoric Rock Art of Jebel Shaqadud, Northwestern Butana (Sudan)
The dating and meaning of petroglyphs constitute a challenge in African rock-art research. In this article, we present and discuss a recently found...
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Making Rock Art: Correspondences, Rhythms, and Temporalities
Non-representational approaches (to rock art) have highlighted the relevance of making processes. Rhythm, temporality, and taskscapes emerge from...
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Understanding Rock Art: What Neuroscience Can Add
In this chapter, I will make a case that neuroscience can help with the understanding of any art, and that in the context of rock art, with its deep...
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Moluccan Fighting Craft on Australian Shores: Contact Rock Art from Awunbarna, Arnhem Land
Two similar watercraft depicted in rock art at Awunbarna, Arnhem Land, Australia, are unlike the Macassan prahus and Western craft shown at other...
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Graffiti, Vandalism and Destruction: Preserving Rock Art in a Globalized World
In our globalized world access to rock art sites is unprecedented. But despite awareness campaigns, education about the universal value of rock art,...
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Rock Art Painting Taphonomy: the Role of Environmental and Technological Factors
This work aims discussing the contribution of environmental and technological factors in rock art painting preservation, based on a 3-year...
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‘Out of Franco-Cantabria’: The Globalization of Pleistocene Rock Art
Since the second half of the twentieth century, globalization has transformed archaeology into a ‘geoculture’ (using Wallerstein’s words) defined by...
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Water Flows and Water Accumulations on Bedrock as a Structuring Element of Rock Art
The paper proposes a new method to quantify the flow of water and water accumulation zones on bedrock panels. This can be used to investigate how...
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Some Implications of Pleistocene Figurative Rock Art in Indonesia and Australia
Until recent years, most western scholars had overlooked the existence of rock art in Indonesia or viewed it as being of limited antiquity and of...
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Rock Art, Modes of Existence, and Cosmopolitics: A View from the Southern Andes
The ontological turn has opened multiples avenues of inquiry in archaeology and rock art research. Goals of this theoretical approach include...
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Translation and Transformation: The Materiality of Rock Art in a World of Bytes
Rock art is fundamentally material and local in several ways: its substrate’s material qualities affect how humans made it and interact with it (for...
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Culture, Memory and Rock Art
Rock art is unusual in the hunter-gatherer archaeological record inasmuch as it is commonly visible on natural landscape surfaces. This contributed...
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Cultures of Appropriation: Rock Art Ownership, Indigenous Intellectual Property, and Decolonisation
Both on and off the rocks, it is clear that many pictographs and petroglyphs are powerful cultural and social ‘tools’ as well as sacred beings....
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Central Asian Rock Art on the Silk Road
For thousands of years, petroglyph’s sites in the Central Asia have been holy and sacred places, reflecting spiritual and religious ideas, any...
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Does Group Contact Shape Styles of Pictorial Representation? A Case Study of Australian Rock Art
Image-making is a nearly universal human behavior, yet the visual strategies and conventions to represent things in pictures vary greatly over time...
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The Many Meanings of “Integration”: Some Thoughts on Relating Rock Art and Excavated Archaeology in South Africa
New and improved methods for obtaining chronometric dates for southern African hunter-gatherer rock paintings raise questions about how researchers...
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The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites
The acoustics of the Lower Chuya River area rock art landscape are analyzed through both the exploration of its acoustic properties and the...
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What Were Rock Art Sites Like in the Past? Reconstructing the Shapes of Sites as Cultural Settings
Rock art research often focuses on the art, rather than on the site or its landscape. Yet what makes the art meaningful in culture is not just the...
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Slow Science But Fast Forward: The Political Economy of Rock Art Research in A Globalized World
There is no doubt that the past decades have brought exciting and novel understandings about geographic distributions, chronologies and analytical...
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Replicated Temporality. Time, Originality, and Rock Art Replicas
The understanding of the notion of ‘the past’ has undergone a complex development in recent years within archaeology and related disciplines. It...