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Animal motifs on rock art in Papua and West Papua
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2022 Most of the rock art in Indonesia is found at prehistoric sites, specifically caves or cliffs in South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, East Kalimantan, Maluku, Papua, and West Papua.
R. Cecep Eka Permana, Zubair Mas'ud
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Changing perceptions of rock art: storying prehistoric worlds
, 2020 Temporality and changeability are here considered vital characteristics of rock art, expressed through shifting light and moving bodies. Demonstrating deliberate use of non-quantifiable elements such as light is challenging.
Astrid J. Nyland, H. Stebergløkken
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Australian Pleistocene rock art
Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 Obtaining accurate dates for rock art is important to both archaeologists and Aboriginal Traditional Owners, but a lack of organic material associated with rock art can make this challenging. Using radiocarbon dating of mud wasp nests, Finch et al.
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Green Images in Indian Rock Art
ArtsIn India, particularly in central India, a large number of early images were created using green pigments. Within the green images or images in the earliest style, one can see that some extremely naturalistic animal figures were made with green and dark ...
Meenakshi Dubey Pathak
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Ontological Beliefs and Hunter–Gatherer Ritual Landscapes: Native Californian Examples
ReligionsLandscapes are socially produced and reproduced spaces. This is easily recognizable for large-scale urban groups with built environments that dominate living places.
David S. Whitley
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Doarrás – eit nytt område med helleristningar i Alta
Viking, 2023 The paper discusses three newly found panels with rock carvings in Alta, Northern Norway. They were discovered at Doarrás (Kongsvika), an area with no previously known rock art. The new site is located outside well-established UNESCO World Heritage rock
Jan Magne Gjerde, Karin Tansem
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A Boat Is a Boat Is a Boat…Unless It Is a Horse – Rethinking the Role of Typology
Open Archaeology, 2022 Today, it is widely accepted that typology is a biased and inconsistent attempt to classify archaeological material based on the similarity of a predefined set of features. In this respect, machine learning (ML) works similar to typology.
Horn Christian +5 more
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2023 This article explores the cultural significance of initiation rites among the Northern Sotho in South Africa, with a particular focus on the blending of symbolic gender motifs in rock art.
Catherine Namono
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Rock Art Research in Southeast Asia: A Synthesis
Arts, 2014 Rock art has been known in Southeast Asia since the early 19th century, but relatively little attention has been paid to this class of archaeological material.
Noel Hidalgo Tan
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Hidden paintings, forgotten histories: a micro-stratigraphic approach to study coated rock art
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2019 Is it possible to detect rock paintings coated by natural or anthropic concretions? In this work, a methodology to discover and characterize underlying paintings is proposed.
Lucas Gheco +7 more
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